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ThEATRE DESIGN

& TECHNOLOGY

Volume XXII * Number 1 * Spring 1986
Journal of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, Number 84

CONTENTS
Table des matieres en franr;ais sur page 35.

Design and the Next Wave

by Arnold Aronson

Sjnce 1983, The Brooklyn Academy of Music has presell/ed a festival of theatre, music, and dance each autumn fealllring some
of the biggest names of the ill/ernational avall/ garde. While the pieces are not as avall/ garde as the festival title suggests, a
very definite style of design has emerged 011/ of the fusion of post-modern esthetics and the performance spaces of BAM.

Scenography, Ethics, and the American Traditi0!1 of Theatrical Design

by Delberl Unruh

The aUlhor, a designer and teacher, argues that the confroll/ation of American realism with European scenography has created a
moral as well as esthetic crisis in American design. He dates the problem from the late '60s and early '70s when American designers
became acquaill/ed with the work of Czechoslovakian designer Josef Svoboda and began to copy the superficial style withoUl
a full understanding of the process. This article explores the ramifications of that approach to design.

Theatre Architecture-Design '85
This is a cOll/inuation of the series begun in the last issue, presell/ing the displays of recell/ theatre architecture seen at the 1985
USITT Conference. In this issue: Stockton State College, Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, Benedum Cell/er in Piusburgh,
Civic Cell/er of Lima, Ohio, Ordway Music Theatre, Grand Theatre for La Rochelle and West Cell/re Cultural Arts Celller,
and Grand Theatre for Loire Atlall/ique Cullllral Cell/re.

Research:

Costume Pattern Drafts

by Kevin L. Seligman

Overcoats: The Inverness and the MacFarlane; Dress Cape

Book Reviews
Fans by Helene Alexander; Jewellery by Diana Scarisbrick; An International Dictionary of Theatrical Language edited by
1. Trapido, E. Langhans, 1. Brandon.

OISTAT
A listing of the COll/ell/S offoreign journals. Beginning in this issue, this department will also list the COll/ell/S of TD&T in
French in keeping with the policy of OISTA T.

New Products

Two microcompUler programs, condenser microphone, belt pac headset stations, fog and smoke machine, graphic equalizer,
plastic honeycomb, electret condenser microphones, art portfolio, quick-reference pencil, steel roll files, clamping componell/s,
audio console

On the cover:

A scene from Robert Wilson's The Golden Windows. Photo © Johan Elbers.

EDITORIAL STAFF
EDITOR:

Arnold Aronson

DESIGNER:

ASSOCIATE EDITORS:

SENIOR EDITOR:

Fred M. Wolff Technical Reports

orma Adler

ADVERTISING MANAGER:
USITT Co NSEL:

Tom Mikotowicz Book Reviews

Tina Margolis

ASSISTANT EDITOR:

Tina Margolis

Thomas R. Nathan

PUBLICATION COMMITTEE:

Bernhard Works Chair

NATIONAL GENERAL MAl AGER:

Rollins Brook Sound
William D. File & Robert Reinecke Complllers

Lawrence J. Luchtel

Kristen Bolt

CO TRIB TING EDITORS:

Ashok Bhavnani
Deborah Dryden
Joel Rubin

ed Bowman
Brooks Mc amara

Tom Watson

Fred M. Wolff

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