designers part two
TRANSCRIPT
Bernard Shaw, Theatre & Pedagogy: A Backward Glance into the Future.
Dr. Michael M. O’Hara
Spring 2003
Company
at Muncie Civic
plays April 4, 5, 10, 11,12
at 8:00 PM.
Federal Theatre & Shaw
Poster, Federal Theatre
American Première of On The Rocks, 1938.
Hallie Flanagan
Federal Theatre Project1935
Cradle Will Rock
© 1999, Buena Vista Pictures
Directed by Tim Robbins
Virgil Geddes, Hallie Flanagan and Harry Hopkins in lobby of Experimental Theatre
Bernard Shaw, 1935
National Archives and Records Administration
Washington, DC
Relief line - Great Depression
Publicity Poster
Power: A Living Newspaper
By Arthur Arent
Hitler
Hirohito
Franco
Mussolini
FDR
Fireside Chat
Machine Age, 1935
Great poster …
Bad play.
Movie PosterPygmalion
© 1938, Loews, Inc.
Leslie Howard(Higgins)
Wendy Hiller(Eliza Doolittle)
Macbeth, adapted by Orson Wells
Negro Theatre Unit, NYC 1936
Maurice Ellis(Macduff)
Wardwell Saunders(Malcom)
GBS … Hallie, you want good actors?
Good luck!
Bernard Shaw
Eugene O’Neill
Cherry Jones as
Hallie Flanagan
testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee
in Cradle Will Rock, © 1999
Great Catherine, Roslyn FTP Unit, 1939
Man of Destiny, Atlanta FTP Unit, 1939
Captain Brassbound’s ConversionLos Angeles FTP Unit, 1937
Caesar and CleopatraLos Angeles FTP Unit, 1938
The Devil’s DiscipleNewark FTP Unit, 1938
Pygmalion, Roslyn FTP Unit (moved to Broadway), 1937-1938
On The Rocks
American Première
New York FTP Unit
1938
Arms and the Man, Detroit FTP Unit, 1938
Designers Part Two
Lesson 9.2
Theatre 100: Introduction to Theatre
Dr. Michael M. O’Hara
Scenic Design: the art of place and space.
• Create environment (place action, reinforce idea/theme, stage story, build mood).
• Create art (color-form, texture, dimension, line, movement-real and optical).
• Create order (ground plan, white models, color models, construction, decoration).
Why is it important to transform space?
• Public spaces.– North Quadrangle (Shaffer Tower)
• This space. – Color, composition, conductive to learning?
• Private spaces.– Your own room … color, composition, sound, lights,
effects for a date?
Costume Design: the art of look and feel.
• Create clothes for both the character and the actor.
• Create art (texture, line, color).
• Creates order (sketch artist, patterns, tailor, drape, repair).
Costume Designs Add Significance
Shaw’s
Androcles in Seattle WA
Federal Theatre Project
November 1937
Androcles & the Lion
• Androcles in Los Angeles
• December 1937
Androcles in New York City December, 1938
Androcles in NYC (cont.)
Androcles in NYC (cont.)
Androcles in NYC (cont.)
Androcles in Denver, December 1937
Androcles in Denver (cont.)
Androcles in Atlanta, GA March 1939
Androcles in Retrospect
• Costumes and sets added significance (meanings) that extended the meanings of the play beyond the original text.
• All costume adds significance … even yours!
Your Costume?
• What are some characteristics of our own costume designs (what do the choices about texture, line, color, drape, etc. suggest about a typical BSU student)?
• Can we change perception by changing costume?
• The Interview?
Summary:
• All the designers unify and reinforce the ideas and themes of a production (concept) through the transformation of space and time using actors, sets, lights, costumes, and sound.