staging

theatre

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major reference

  • Teatro Farnese
    In theatre: Staging conventions

    The methods of staging from these first liturgical dramas to the 16th-century interludes can be divided into six main types. The first involved the use of the church building as a theatre. In the beginning, for Easter tropes (embellishments of the liturgy), a tomb was set up in…

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contribution by Torelli

  • In Giacomo Torelli

    …June 17, 1678, Fano) Italian stage designer and engineer whose innovative theatre machinery provided the basis for many modern stage devices.

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history of theatrical production

  • Teatro Farnese
    In theatre: Visual and spatial aspects

    The earliest productions did not have a background building. The actors dressed in the skēnē (from which the word “scene” is derived), which was then a small tent, and the chorus and actors entered together from the main approach, the parodos. The earliest properties, such as altars…

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