Engelska

Scenography is not an autonomous art form. Its significance and capacity to visualise emerges through interaction with the actors on stage, and is preceded by the collaboration with directors and other artists involved in creating a performance. Therein lies its expressive complexity - and the challenge for the stage designer. In this book one of Swedens most acclaimed scenographers, Lars-Åke Thessman, discusses his profession from six different perspectives. In image and text, he guides us through the creative process, touching on the collaboration with the director and illustrating how sketches, models and drawings are translated into the magic of a full-scale stage design. The ephemeral nature of theatre means that it always stands in relation to time: artists of the stage draw in sand, but fleeting art also has a history that is well worth telling.

<p><b>'Impressive' <i>Financial Times </i></b><br/><b>'Terrific' <i>Guardian</i></b><br/><b>'Elegant' Laura Shepperson</b><br/><br/>By night, Vivian Parry performs the role of Manhattan's sharpest literary critic, immersing herself fully in every show she sees. By day, she uses work, sex and psychotropic drugs to keep her comfortably numb.<br/><br/>Desperate for a promotion and at the urging of her editor, she agrees to an interview with David Adler, an enigmatic graduate student. When he later disappears, Vivian soon learns from his devastated fiancee that she was the last person to have seen him alive. The police refuse to investigate his disappearance and Vivian finds herself obsessed with what happened, assuming the role of amateur investigator.<br/><br/>But as she gets closer to the truth about David Adler, she finds that the boundaries between theatre and reality are more tenuous than even she could have believed.</p>