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- ISBN 9781032109299
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 25 Sep 2025
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The second edition of the classic industry text From Page to Stage: How Theatre Designers Make Connections Between Scripts and Images explores the relationship between text analysis, imagination, and creation of theatrical design.
How can a designer harness something as elusive as the human imagination to create a world that will complement and enhance a dramatic production? What steps are involved in making the jump from a script’s text to an engaging, imaginative stage? From Page to Stage explores these questions, offers advice for reading and understanding playscripts, and provides a clear, detailed method for identifying, collecting, and organizing script facts. Heavily illustrated with striking examples, it addresses:
- the who, what, where, how, and (maybe) why of text analysis
- what happens when the designer’s imagination meets the script
- moving from dramatic text to theatrical event.
Also included are photo/interview essays, which ultimately ask the designer, “How will your interpretation affect the audience/individual/society intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, and politically”?
Updated with new interviews, illustrations, and current trends and processes, this guide will inform students and working designers on how to design a script for the stage.
Rosemary Ingham was a teacher and professional designer who worked in the theatre for over 30 years before her untimely passing in 2008. She was the coauthor of the Costume Designer’s Handbook and The Costume Technician’s Handbook, both with Liz Covey.
Jamie Bullins is an associate professor of Theatrical Design at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. In his career, he has contributed as a designer, director, and playwright on over 100 projects with numerous companies around the country for over thirty years. He still believes that theatre can change lives, even in the minutest of ways.
