Theatre and performance design: a reader in scenography

Appearance and reality / Bertrand Russell

The simile of the cave / Plato

The draughtsman's contract : how an artist creates an image / John Willats

The camera obscura and its subject / Jonathan Crary

Meditations on a hobby horse or the roots of artistic form / Ernst Gombrich

From Camera Lucida / Roland Barthes

The most concealed object / Herbert Blau

Fascination and obsession / Susan Bennett

Of other spaces / Michel Foucault

From The production of space / Henri Lefebvre

For a hierarchy of means of expression on the stage / Adolphe Appia

A taxonomy of spatial function / Gay McAuley

6 axioms for environmental theatre : axiom three / Richard Schechner

Site-specifics / Nick Kaye

Dancing in the streets : the sensuous manifold as a concept for designing experience / Scott Palmer and Sita Popat

Grounding / Andrew Todd

Towards an aesthetic of virtual reality / Gabriella Giannachi

The house, from cellar to garret, the significance of the hut / Gaston Bachelard

Making and contesting time-spaces / Doreen Massey

Postmodern design / Arnold Aronson

"Oh, to make boardes to speak!" / Nicholas Till

Stage designs of a single gesture : the early work of Robert Edmond Jones / Arthur B. Feinsod

Foreword the The stage is set / Lee Simonson

Hope, hopelessness

presence, absence : scenographic innovation and the poetic spaces of Jo Mielziner, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller / Liam Doona

Brecht and stage design : the Bühnenbildner and the Bühnenbauer / Christopher Baugh

The diseases of costume / Roland Barthes

My idea of the theatre / Tadeusz Kantor

Visual composition, mostly / Richard Foreman

Defining and reconstructing theatre sound / Adrian Curtin

On performance writing / Tim Etchells

Docile bodies / Michel Foucault

Eye and mind / Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Of language and the flesh / Thomas Laqueuer

From Adorned in dreams / Elizabeth Wilson

The actor and the über-marionette / Edward Gordon Craig

Man and art figure / Oskar Schlemmer

From Towards a poor theatre / Jerzy Grotowski

Woman, man, dog, tree : two decades of intimate and monumental bodies in Pina Bausch's Tanztheater / Gabrielle Cody

The will to evolve / Jane Goodall

Glow : an interview with Gideon Obarzanek / Cristiane Bouger

The work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility : second version / Walter Benjamin

Interaction between text and reader / Wolfgang Iser

Semiotics / Lois Tyson

Limits of analysis, limits of theory and Pavis's questionnaire / Patrice Pavis

Sound design : the scenography of engagement and distraction / Ross Brown

Olfactory performances / Sally Banes

The naturalistic theatre and the theatre of mood / Vsevolod Meyerhold

Theatre and cruelty / Antonin Artaud

The humanist theatre ; The catastrophic theatre ; The cult of accessibility and the theatre of obscurity / Howard Barker

Drawing in rehearsal / Rae Smith

Speech introducing Freud / Robert Wilson

From The secret of theatrical space / Josef Svoboda.