Setting the Stage (eBook)

What We Do, How We Do It, and Why

David Hays (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
192 Seiten
Wesleyan University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8195-7722-1 (ISBN)

Infos

The life and work of a stage designer who worked with Kazan and Balanchine David Hays, elected to the Theater Hall of Fame in 2014, created an exciting and successful career designing scenery and lighting for plays and musicals on Broadway, in London, and in Japan. Told with passion and wit, this book takes readers behind the scenes of the theater world to show how a stage designer collaborates with directors and producers to create great works of theater and dance. A designer who collaborated with the great directors of his time—Arthur Penn, Garson Kanin, Tyrone Guthrie, Elia Kazan, Jose Quintero, and Joe Layton—shares anecdotes that integrate technical insight with life lessons. He designed sets for the Metropolitan Opera, for Lincoln Center, for Martha Graham, and thirty ballets for George Balanchine. This colorful account of theater life is for scholars, practitioners, and theatregoers interested in how it all works. Publication of this book is funded by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.

Autor

amp;lt;P>DAVID HAYS has taught at New York University, Columbia, Boston University, and Harvard. He then directed the National Theatre of the Deaf for thirty years. He is the author of Today I Am a Boy and coauthor with his son, Daniel, of the New York Times bestseller My Old Man and the Sea. He lives in Chester, Connecticut.</P>

Inhalt

<P>Acknowledgments<BR>Read This<BR>Starting Out<BR>Long Day's Journey into O'Neill<BR>Getting the Idea<BR>London, the Glorious City<BR>Yale and Green Mansions<BR>Boston Again, and Tanglewood<BR>Painting Lessons from a Virtuoso<BR>New York<BR>Broadway Briefly<BR>The Exploding Chicken<BR>Sir Tyrone<BR>The Light That Failed<BR>"Gadg" and Getting Fired<BR>Designing for Garson Kanin, and What It's All About<BR>The Pipe in the Drawer<BR>Maureen and More<BR>Good Things and Not-So-Good Things<BR>Hughie, and Strange Behavior<BR>Two Designers and Survival<BR>One Night Only<BR>Repertory, Classics, a Falling Out<BR>Too Much Control<BR>Musical Disaster and Success<BR>More Musicals and a Fantastic Preview<BR>We Knew Famous People<BR>Concrete at Last<BR>Opera Tales<BR>My Sad Ending with José<BR>Conceiving a Production<BR>Violetta and the Parade<BR>First Steps into Another World<BR>More Ballet<BR>The Grand Kabuki<BR>Japan Again<BR>Turntables and Puppets<BR>Mr. B.<BR>Finale<BR>Encore<BR>Index</P>

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.6.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 6 illus.
• Verlagsort: Middletown
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
• Schlagworte: and Joe Layton • Arthur Penn • Balanchine • Ballet • Biography - Entertainment &#38 • Biography - Entertainment & Performing Arts • Dance • Elia Kazan • Garson Kanin • Jose Quintero • Lighting design • Lincoln Center • Memoir • Metropolitan Opera • neill • O&#8217 • O’Neill • Opera • performing arts • Set Design • stage • stagecraft • Theater • Theatre • Tyrone Guthrie • Wilder
• ISBN-10: 0-8195-7722-7 / 0819577227
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-7722-1 / 9780819577221