Theatre Design & Technology - Fall 1992 - 4

ilD&1i
THE JOURNAL FOR
DESIGN & PRODUCTION PROFESSIONALS
IN THE PERFORMING ARTS

Editorial Staff
ERIC FIELDING

Executive Editor
CECELIA FiElDING

Editor

Associate Editors
ROBERT BENSON Architecrure
JOY EMERY Costume

ore rhan twO decades ago a rheatre histOry professor of mine imroduced me

to

two books-books which have had a profound influence on my rhearre design

MITCH HEFTER Engineering
ELBIN CLEVELAND Education
RANDY DAVIDSON Health & Safety

work and on my personal aesmeric philosophy ever since.

RICHARD DEVIN Lighting Design

The firsr book was The Dramatic Imagination by Robert Edmond Jones. In rhar

ROBERT SCHMIDT Scenic Design
CHARLIE RICHMOND Sound Design

seminal work Jones opened my eyes, my mind, and my heart

to

rhe wonderful

possibiliries of rheatrical design and production. The second book was The

Scenography ofJosef Svoboda by Jarka Burian. In me work of rhis masrer designer
from Czechoslovakia I found rhe realizarion of rhe vision I had seen in rhe

RICK STEPHENS Technical Production
WILLIAM FLYNN Production & Management

Department Editors
NORMA ADLER International Journals
ROBERT C. HELLER

ew Products

SYLVIA J. HILLYARD Book Reviews

propheric words ofJones.
During me ensuing years I have cominued

to

srudy and admire rhe work of

rhese rwo grear twemierh cenrury rheatre designers and philosophers. So I was

PATRICK M. FINELLI Computers

Contributing Editors
ARNOlD ARONSON

parricularly excired when rhe opporruniry presented irself for us publish in
successive issues of TD&T newly available wrirings by Robert Edmond Jones and

NED BOWMAN
JARKA BURIAN
SARAH NASH GATES

Josef Svoboda. Lasr issue we primed one of rhe lecrures from Jones' Towards a New

Theatre and in rhis issue we are pleased and honored

to

be publishing excerprs from

TINA MARGOLIS
JOEl RUBIN
DELBERT UNRUH

me forthcoming autObiography by Svoboda, The Secret ofTheatrical Space.
Our special rhanks

to

TOM WATSON

Jarka Burian, rhe translatOr and editOr of rhe English

version of Svoboda's autObiography, and

to

Glen Young, rhe book's publisher ar

Applause Books, for meir suPPOrt and permission

to

share rhis portion of rhe book.

We hope you will enjoy rhese excerprs and rhar you will rhen be prompred

to

FRED M. WOLFF

Design
ERIC FIELDING Art Director

Production
SUSAN MURPHY Advertising Manager

read more of rhis rich rexr when The Secret of

DEBORA E. KINGSTON Finance & Operations
ANNE EliET Marketing & Development

Theatrical Space is published larer rhis year.

THOMAS R. NATHAN USITT Counsel

Eric Fielding
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COVER

Josef Svoboda's design for Salome
by Richard Strauss, Montreal, 1985.
photo: Jarka Burian
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