Creating Outdoor Theatre: A Practical Guide - Softcover

Ayres, Nina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847970451 ISBN 13: 9781847970459

Publisher: The Crowood Press Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

Creating Outdoor Theatre is a practical guide to putting on a performance outside, offering a brief history of outdoor theatre and explaining the unique production opportunities it offers. The book explains the design and production considerations peculiar to performing outdoors, including health and safety aspects, facilities for actors and audience, transporting equipment, and the logistics of licensing, negotiating with local authorities and even police liaison.

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About the Author

Nina Ayres graduated from the Central School of Speech and Drama, specializing in theatre design, and is now a highly-respected freelance theatre designer, and maker of props, costumes and puppets. She has worked with a wide range of theatre, film and television production companies, both in the UK and overseas, in roles ranging from costume designer to art director. The productions she has been involved in have included small-scale touring pieces to large community theatre events. Resident - London

Edition details

• Publisher: The Crowood Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847970451
• ISBN 13: 9781847970459
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160