What is Scenographer ?
A scenographer develops the appearance of a stage design, a TV or movie set, a gaming environment, a trade fair exhibition design or a museum experience exhibition design. The term originated in theater. A scenographer works together with the theater director to make the message come through in the best way they think possible, the director having the leading role and responsibility particularly for dramatic aspects – such as casting, acting, and direction – and the scenographer primarily responsible for the visual aspects or “look” of the production – which often includes scenery or sets, lighting, and costumes, and may include projections or other aspects.
While a common role in theatrical production teams in most countries, the position of scenographer is very uncommon in the United States, where this task is generally parcelled out among several people, principally the scenic or set designer who generally spearheads the visual aspects of the production. The production’s design team often includes designers for: scenic design, lighting, sound, projections, costumes, properties, choreography, and sometimes others.
Plays are usually produced by a production team that commonly includes a director, scenic or set designer, lighting designer, costume designer, sound designer, dramaturg, stage manager, and production manager.
massimiliano fuksas: scenography of medea and edipo for the greek theatre of siracusa, italy
scenography of medea and edipo for the greek theatre of siracusa, italy by massimiliano fuksas
image courtesy massimiliano fuksas
architect massimiliano fuksas has created a greek theatre for the fondazione INDA
(istituto nazionale del dramma antico) in siracusa, italy
according to fuksas the element of thought and inspiration for this scenography was
the horizon. a very simple horizon – he adds- that speaks about the catharsis element
and the landscape, the place and the action for the conscience of the ancient spectators.
as the landscape and the scenery are changed in the course of time, the contained intention
in this scenography is the reconstruction of the lost horizon, staged by a ‘concave blade’
that mirrors all that happens around, that involves the audience, that reflects and invites
to reflect.
scenography of medea and edipo for the greek theatre of siracusa, italy
image courtesy massimiliano fuksas
scenography of medea and edipo for the greek theatre of siracusa, italy
image courtesy massimiliano fuksas
scenography of medea and edipo for the greek theatre of siracusa, italy
image courtesy massimiliano fuksas
scenography of medea and edipo for the greek theatre of siracusa, italy
image courtesy massimiliano fuksas
scenography of medea and edipo for the greek theatre of siracusa, italy
image courtesy massimiliano fuksas
scenography of medea and edipo for the greek theatre of siracusa, italy
image courtesy massimiliano fuksas
scenography of medea and edipo for the greek theatre of siracusa, italy
image courtesy massimiliano fuksas
scenography of medea and edipo for the greek theatre of siracusa, italy
image courtesy massimiliano fuksas
scenography of medea and edipo for the greek theatre of siracusa, italy
image courtesy massimiliano fuksas
scenography of medea and edipo for the greek theatre of siracusa, italy
image courtesy massimiliano fuksas
scenography of medea and edipo for the greek theatre of siracusa, italy
image courtesy massimiliano fuksas
general info
object: scenography of the greek tragedies medea and edipo a colono
project: massimiliano and doriana fuksas
site: greek theatre of siracusa, italy
date: 2009
client: fondazione INDA – istituto nazionale del dramma antico
type: realized project
PHILOSOPHY
International Festival of Theatre
Sibiu, Romania
May 27 – 31, 2009
Costume Working Group Report
OISTAT Scenography Commission
Co-Heads:Laura Crow and Lise Klitten Vice Head:Kazue Hatano
Internation Theater Festival
Sibiu
Romanian Theatre Highlights
Metamorphoze by the Radu Stanca Theatre of Sibiu on a cold rainy night for an audience covered in clear plastic garbage bags.
The set rises behind a very large pool of water. The Scenographer is Helmut Stürmer who works often with Silviu Purcarete as a collaborative artist.
The company arrive from a proscenium to the left end of the water and a pier that protrudes from the proscenium.
The actors set up the metal platforms as the words of Ovid are spoken..
Light-hearted fun. The flight of the angels.
An angel with toilet paper wings enters the pool.
The multi-headed dog Cerberus guards the gates of Hades.
Strange plastic coated beings in Hades.
Doctors try to resurrect a life.
The deus ex machina is two strange 18th century male drag queens who arrive in a green light.
There is a heavy dosage of fire breathing from the cast spitting out liquid parafin.
The scenery is set on fire as a large projection talks about the human flesh eaters who don’t take advantage of earth’s bounty.
The evening finishes with the audience marveling at lax fire codes and actors who will put up with cold weather and water that is not heated.
The director of Metamorphoze, Silviu Purcarete, and the Costume Working Group members have a spontaneious discussion in the backstage tent. The talk is about his collaboration with designer Helmut Shürmer and his return to Rumania after many years as artistic director for his own company in Lyons, France.
Silviu Purcarete answers questions with Nic Ularu, the Programming Director for Romania by his side.
The students of Dr. Faustus ponder their lessons on computers.
The students look on in earnest to learn from their professor.
Faust is delivered a bed full of virgins as the first proof from Mephistopheles that he is good for his word.
Strange phantoms appear at the window of Faust’s study.
Suddenly the back wall breaks away and two phantoms appear on a Rhinoceros to take Faust to a place of debauchery.
The great Rhinoceros is taken to the back of the Theatre to his Altar.
Women are fornicating with pigs.
Lucifer drives his minions on.
Apparitions hang from the ceiling.
Mephistopheles played by reknowned actress Ofélia Popii pulls the intoxicated Faust further into this world.
Faust rapes an old debauched woman.
Faust is presented with
Helen of Troy
Faust takes Helen of Troy to Lucifer’s orgy.
Fires appear to burn out of control near electrical wires.
There are serious pyrotechnics in the warehouse where the production takes place.
In the end Mephistopheles returns to his/her human self and summons the dark angels of death.
One last apparition appears on the Rhinocerous and toys with the scenic model, and the life of Faust
Titus Andronicus
Here seen at home with his family in a strange new version of movement something akin to Bhutto, but with the addition of erratic movements that are not slow.
Lavinia is attacked an loses her tongue.
The Shogun’s son swears revenge with a strange mask on the side of his head.
Lavinia tries to warn of an attack, but she has no tongue. The henchmen have strange hands painted in white that are quite disturbing.
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