Josef Svoboda (1920-2002) was an eminent Czech scenographer who first trained as an architect in Prague and later studied scenography at the Prague Conservatory. His most famous works are those produced for the Czech National Theatre where he held the position of principal designer for over...

Adophe Appia was a visionary Swiss theatre theorist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His ideas of stage space defined by light rather than by painted sets had a profound influence on Edw…

This lesson examines the history of theatrical lighting development over the centuries, including new power sources, advancement in fixture...

JOSEF SVOBODA

Figure 3· Elevation and floorplan of A Midsummer Night's Dream in Tieck's production. lnstitut fuer Theaterwissenschaft, Cologne. - "Adolphe Appia, Prophet of the Modern Theater: A Profile"

adolph appia (switzerland)

I. In a melancholy mood, the Swiss scenographer Adolphe Appia sat down at his drawing table in the little bed-sit he was renting in Geneva and took up his pencil and a little hardbound notebook to write down his ‘notes personelles / 1905’: ‘At my age, that of forty-three, I… Read More

Adolphe Appia

Josef Svoboda - Oedipus Rex designed (1963)