T H E U N I V E R S I T Y OF B R I T I S H C O L U M B I A T H E U N I V E R S I T Y OF B R I T I S H C O L U M B I ASeptember 2010
Ronald Fedoruk
604 822 3707
http://conceptu-alley.arts.ubc.ca
rfedoruk@interchange.ubc.ca
Frederic Wood Theatre Rm. 113Thtr 505 and Thtr 507 are studio courses intended to develop your unique personality and style as a designer, to improve the skills that will enable you to function as a professional, and to contribute to a professional level portfolio. The class will meet Thursday 1:00-4:00 throughout the Fall Term. For projects that carry forward into the Spring Term the instructor will be available as necessary for consultation.
Required Assignments:
Two completed set designs. The first project will be completed in conjunction with THTR 405. The second will be a self-directed project.
Some students may be designing projects for the Theatre at UBC subscription season, others will be choosing projects from the list below in consultation. Projects completed for Thtr 505 or Thtr 507 cannot be used as Theses or for Thtr 99 practicum projects.
All work should closely adhere to the Associated Designers of Canada Graphic Standards.
All assignments will be designed for a specific theatre, and the same theatre should not be used for both projects.
Every effort will also be made to include a play that has a single setting and one with multiple settings; one with detailed stage directions and one with few descriptions.
Individual design projects and their scheduling will be determined on the first days of class. Each project will have an individualised process, a final deadline, and intermediate deadlines for each stage of development.
Late assignments will be graded but the penalty is completely at the discretion of the instructor.
Please ensure that you have the appropriate materials and space for your work: those who require studio space in the classroom should consult with me. Please note that we will be covering a lot of ground very fast: 2 designs in 6 months is not exhorbitant for a professional designer, but those will less experience are well advised not to procrastinate.
Required Reading:
Federico García Lorca: Blood Wedding, A.S.Kline trans.
http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Spanish/BloodWeddingActI.htmBlood Wedding, Glynne Edwards, trans., London, AC Black 2008
http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Blood-Wedding-Federico-Garcia-LorcaThree Tragedies: James Graham-Luján and Richard L. O’Connell, trans, New York, New Directions Paperbook, 1955
Bodas de Sangre, Ahmedabad, Ediciones Colihue, 1994
http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Bodas-de-Sangre-Federico-Garcia-LorcaBodas de Sangre, Allen Josephs y Juan Caballero, eds, Madrid, Caítedra, 2001
Jean Giraudoux: Madwoman of Chaillot, Maurice Valency, trans, New York, Random House 1947
http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/The-Madwoman-of-Chaillot-Maurice-ValencyMichel Marc Bouchard: The Madonna Painter, Linda Gaboriau, trans. Vancouver, Talonbooks, 2010
http://www.talonbooks.com/index.cfm?event=titleDetails&ISBN=0889226415Paul Yee: Cumberland, unpublished,
script availability TBA
Suggested Reading:
Design Theory:
Appia, Adolphe: Peter Loeffler, trans: Staging Wagnerian Drama , Basel, Birkhauser Verlag, 1982
Appia, Adolphe: Gables Coral, trans: Music and the Art of the Theatre, Florida, University of Miami Press, 1962
Aronson, Arnold: American Set Design, New York, Theatre Communications Group, 1985
Aronson, Arnold: Looking into the Abyss: Essays on Scenography, 2005, Ann Arbor, U of M Press
Bay, Howard: Stage Design, New York, Drama Book Specialists, 1974
Bablet. Denis: La Mise en Scène Contemporaine, Bruxelles, la Renaissance du livre, 1968
Backemeyer Sylvia: Ralph Koltai ; Designer for the Stage, London, Nick Hern Books, 2003
Blumenthal, Eileen: Julie Taymor; Playing with Fire, New York, Abrams 1995
Bowlt, John E: L'Avant-garde russe et la scène 1910-1930:
une sélection de la collection N.D. Lobanov-Rostovsky, Paris, Editions Plume, 1998.
Burian, Jarka; The Scenography of Josef Svoboda, Middletown Connecticut, The Wesleyan Press, 1971
Craig, Gordon: Towards a New Theatre, New York, Benjamin Blom, 1969
Ebrahimian, Babak: Scuipting Space in the Theatre; Conversations...., Burlington MA, Focal Press 2006
Edwards, Betty: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Los Angeles, Jeremy P. Archer Inc, 1979, 1989
Edelstein, T.J., ed: The Stage is All the World: the Theatrical Designs of Tanya Moiseiwitsch, U of Chicago 1994
Franck, Frederick: The Zen of Seeing, New York, Vintage, 1973
Goodwin, John: British Theatre Design: The Modern Age, London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1989
Harris, Andrew B: The Performing Set: The Broadway Designs of William and Jean Eckart, Dallas, UNT Press, 2006
Hugh Honour and John Fleming, The Visual Arts, A History, Prentice Hall, Inc., 2002
Howard, Pamela: What is Scenography?, London, Routledge, 2002
Jones, Robert Edmond: The Dramatic Imagination, New York, Theatre Arts Books, 1941
Jones, Robert Edmond, Delbert Unruh, ed.: Towards a New Theatre, New York, Limelight, 1992
Mielziner, Jo: Designing for the Theatre; a Memoir and a Portfolio, New York, Atheneun, 1965
John Morley, The History of Furniture, Little, Brown and Co., 1999
Nicolaides, Kimon: The Natural Way to Draw, Boston, Houghton-Mifflin, 1941, 1969
Oenslager, Donald: Stage Design : Four Centuries of Scenic Invention, New York : Viking Press, 1975.
Ogden, Dunbar: The Italian Baroque Stage : Documents, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1978.
Payne, Darwin Reid: The Scenographic Imagination, Carbondale, Southern Illinios University Press, 1987
Rewa, Natalie: Scenography in Canada; Selected Designers, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2004
Simonson, Lee: Theatre Art, New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1934
Willett, John: Caspar Neher: Brecht's Designer, London, Methuen 1986Stagecraft:
Arnold, Richard L.: Scene Technology, New York, Prentice Hall, 1985
Bellman,Willard, F.: Scene Design, Stage Lighting, Sound, Costume and Makeup, New York, Harper and Row, 1983
Bellman,Willard, F.: Scenography and Stage Technology, New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1977 (Out of Print)
Burris-Meyer, Harold, and Cole, Edward C.: Scenery for the Theatre, Boston, Little,Brown and Co. 1938, 1971
Carter, Paul: The Backstage Handbook, New York, Broadway Press, 1988, 1994
Gillette, Arnold: Stage Scenery, Its Construction and Rigging, New York, Harper, 1960
Gillette, J. Micheal: Theatrical Design and Production, Palo Alto, Mayfield Publishing, 1986, 1996, McGraw-Hill, 2007
https://ebooks.primisonline.com/cgi/showebook.cgi?isbn=0390860379&bookType=unselected&fulleBook=true
Glerum, Jay O,: Stage Rigging Handbook, Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1987
Napoli, Rob & Glomann, Chuck: Scenic Design and Lighting Techniques, 2006, Burlington, Focal Press
Parker, W. Oren and Harvey Smith and R Craig Wolf and Dick Block: Scene Design and Stage Lighting,
New York, Harcourt&Brace 1963, 1996, Toronto, Nelson Education, 2008Drafting:
Ching, Frances, D.K: Drawing: A Creative Process, New York, Van Nostrand, Reinhold, 1990
Ching, Frances, D.K: Architectural Graphics, New York, Van Nostrand, Reinhold, 1985
Alan Hendrickson, Colin Buckhurst: Mechanical Design for the Stage, Amsterdam, Boston, Focal Press, 2008
Holden, Alys & Sammler, Bronislav: Structural Design for the Stage, Amsterdam, Boston, Focal Press 1999
Morgan, Harry: Perspective Drawing for the Theatre, New York, Drama Book Publishers, 1979
Parker, W. Oren: Sceno-Graphic Techniques, Carbondale, Southern Illinios University Press, 1987
Pecktal, Lynn: Designing and Drawing for the Theatre, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1995
Ramsey/Sleeper: Architectural Graphic Standards, New York, John Wiley and Sons, 1932, 1989
Smith, Stan and Ten Holt, H.F., eds. : The Artist's Manual, London, MacDonald, 1980
Woobridge, Patricia: Designer Drafting for the Entertainment World, Boston, Focal Press, 2000Lighting:
Warfel, William: Handbook of Stage Lighting Graphics, New York, Drama Book Specialists, 1974
Bellman, Willard F. : Lighting the Stage: Art and Practice, New York, Chandler Publishing Co. 1974
Bentham, Frederick: The Art of Lighting the Stage, London, Pitman, 1976
Bergman, Gosta: Lighting in the Theatre, Stockholm, Almqvist and Wiksell, 1977
Corry, Percy: Lighting the Stage, London, Pitman, 1954
Fuchs, Theodore: Stage Lighting, New York, Benjamin Blom, 1929
J. Micheal Gillette: Designing with Light, Palo Alto, Mayfield Publishing, 1978, 1989 Boston, McGraw-Hill, 2007
https://ebooks.primisonline.com/cgi/showebook.cgi?isbn=0390887749&bookType=unselected&fulleBook=true
Hartmann, Louis: Stage Lighting, New York, Appleton, 1930 , reprinted New York, Drama Book Specialists, 1970
Keller, Max: Light Fantastic: the art and design of stage lighting, Munich, New York, Prestel, 1999.
Malkiewwcz,Kris: Film Lighting, New York, Prentice- Hall , 1986
Nick Moran: Performance Lighting Design, London, Methuen, A&C Black, 2007
McCandless, Stanley B : A Method of Lighting the Stage, New York, Theatre Arts Books, 1947
Mc Grath, Ian: A Process for Lighting the Stage, Boston, Allyn and Bacon, 1990
Mumm, Robert C: Photometrics Handbook, Shelter Island, NY, 1992
Pilbrow, Richard: Stage Lighting, New York, Drama Book Publishers , 1979
Pilbrow, Richard: Stage Lighting Design : the art, the craft, the life, London, Nick Hern Books, 1997
Rosenthal, Jean, and Wertenbaker, Lael: The Magic of Light, Boston, Little Brown and Co. 1972
Sellman, Hunton D, and Lessley, Merrill: Essentials of Stage Lighting, Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, 1982
Streader, Tim and Williams, John H.: Create Your Own Stage Lighting, London, Bell and Hyman, 1985
Unruh, Delbert: Tharon Musser, Syracuse, USITT Publications, 2007
Warfel, William, The New Handbook of Stage Lighting Graphics, New York, Drama Book Publishers, 1990
Warfel, William and Klappert, Walter: Color Science for Lighting the Stage, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1981Costume:
Anderson, Barbara and Cletus, Costume Design – second Edition, Belmont, CA, Wadsworth Group, 1999
François Boucher, 20,000 Years of Fashion, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987
Costume Society of America: Dress, New York, Costume Society of America, 1975-2008
Cunningham, Rebecca, The Magic Garment, Long Grove, IL, Waveland Press, 1994.
Joanne B. Eicher, et al: The Visible Self : global perspectives on dress, culture, and society , New York : Fairchild , 2008.
Ann Ferebee, A History of Design from the Victorian Age to the Present, 1970, Van Nostrand, New York
Green, Ruth M, The Wearing of Costume, London, Safira Publications, 1994
Ingham, Rosemary, and Covey, Elizabeth: The Costumer's Handbook, New York, Prentice-Hall, 1980
Ingham, Rosemary, and Covey, Elizabeth: The Costume Designer's Handbook, New York, Prentice-Hall, 1980
Jackson, Sheila, Costumes for the Stage and Screen, Great Britian, The Herbert Press, 1988
Laver, James: A Concise History of Costume, London, Thames and Hudson, 1969
Milbank, Caroline Rennolds. New York Fashion: The Evolution of American Style. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989.
Payne, Blanche, Geitel Winakor, and Jane Farrell-Beck. The History of Costume. 2nd ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
Russell, Douglas A: Period Style for the Theatre, Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1980
Russell, Douglas A. Costume History and Style. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1983.
Steele, Valerie. Women of Fashion: Twentieth-Century Designers. New York: Rizzoli International, 1991.
Tortora, Phyllis G. and Eubank, Keith, Survey of Historic Costume, New York, Fairchild Publications, 2005
Suggested Plays:
Single Setting, Explicitly Described:
Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House,
Hedda Gabler.
Michel Tremblay: Les Belles-Soeurs.
Eric Nichol: I'll Be Back Before Midnight.
Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie,
A Streetcar Named Desire.
Eugene O'Niell: A Moon for the Misbegotten,
Long Day's Journey Into Night.
Samuel Beckett: End Game.
Waiting for Godot.
David Mamet: American Buffalo.
Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman,
A View from the Bridge
Thomson Highway: Dry Lips Oughta Move To Kapuskasing
Harold Pinter: The CaretakerMultiple Setting, Explicitly Described:
George Bernard Shaw: Heartbreak House,
Pygmalion.
Wm. Congreve: The Way of the World
Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer
Anton Chekhov: The Seagull
The Cherry Orchard
J.M. Barrie: Peter Pan.
Wole Soyinka: Death and the King's Horseman.
Fredrico Garcia Lorca: Blood Wedding,
The House of Bernarda Alba.
Arthur Miller: The CrucibleSingle Setting: Unspecific, Abstract or Implied Description:
Euripides: The Bacchae.
Wm. Shakespeare: Love's Labours Lost.
Bertholt Brecht: The Caucasian Chalk Circle.
Peter Shaffer: Equus.
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex,
Antigone
Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot.
Endgame
Micheal Frayne: Copenhagen.
Robert Bolt: A Man for All Seasons.
Gwen Pharis Ringwood: Dark Harvest.
Judith Thompson: Lion in the Streets.
Morris Panych: Vigil
James Reaney: Sticks and Stones
Tom Stoppard: Arcadia
Frank Wedekind: Spring AwakeningMultiple Setting: Unspecific, Abstract or Implied Description:
W.A. Mozart: The Magic Flute .
Richard Wagner: Rheingold,
The Flying Dutchman.
Wm. Shakespeare: King Lear,
Romeo and Juliet,
The Tempest
Henrik Ibsen: Peer Gynt.
Bertholt Brecht: Mother Courage and Her Children
Georg Buchner: Woyzeck.
Sophocles: Electra, Antigone.
Peter Shaffer: Amadeus.
George Ryga: The Ecstasy of Rita Joe.
Sharon Pollock: Blood Relations.
Harold Pinter : Betrayal
George Elliott Clarke: Beatrice ChanceyTheatres:
Frederic Wood Theatre, UBC;
Telus Studio, UBC;
New Globe Theatre, London;
Drottningholm Court Theatre, Stockholm;
Covent Garden, London;
Berliner Operhaus, Berlin;
Bregenzer Festespielehaus, Bregenz;
Sidney Opera House, Sidney;
Stratford Festival Theatre, Ont.;
McPherson Playhouse, Vancouver;
Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver;
Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver;
Queen Elizabeth Playhouse, VancouverStyles:
Renaissance;
Neo-Classical;
Romantic;
Expressionist;
Constructivist;
Modern;
Post-Modern;
Symbolist;
Action Design;
Epic;
Story Theatre;
Musical Theatre.Designers:
Canada:
Tanya Moiseivitsch;
Desmond Healey;
Brian Jackson;
Francois Barbeau;
Murray Laufer;
Susan Benson;
Cameron Porteous;
Robert Lepage;
Micheal Levine;
Phillip Silver;
Phillip Clarkson;
Ken MacDonald;
Robert Gardiner.Europe:
Sebastiano Serlio,
Giuseppe Galli Bibiena,
Inigo Jones,
Lawrence Alma-Tadema;
Caspar Neher;
Natalia Goncharova,
Oliver Messel,
John Bury,
Ralph Koltai,
David Hockney,
John Napier.United States:
Robert Edmond Jones;
Jo Mielziner;
Boris Aronson;
Cecil Beaton;
Oliver Smith,
Ming Cho Lee;
Santo Loquasto;
Eugene Lee;
Ralph Funicello
Lee SimonsenThe University accommodates students with disabilities who have registered with the Disability Resource Centre. The University accommodates students whose religious obligations conflict with attendance, submitting assignments, or completing scheduled tests and examinations. Please let your instructor know in advance, preferably in the first week of class, if you will require any accommodation on these grounds. Students who plan to be absent for varsity athletics, family obligations, or other similar commitments, cannot assume they will be accommodated, and should discuss their commitments with the instructor before the drop date.
Regular attendance is expected of students in all their classes (including lectures, laboratories, tutorials, seminars, etc.). Students who neglect their academic work and assignments may be excluded from the final examinations. Students who are unavoidably absent because of illness or disability should report to their instructors on return to classes.Last date for withdrawal without a W on your transcript: September 22
Last date for withdrawal with a W instead of an F on your transcript: October 16