Dean Wilcox is Professor of Theatre History, Dramatic Literature and Humanities in the Division of Liberal Arts at The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, USA.

This book will help anyone who is serious about lighting design to think more deeply about the “why” of what we do when we put light on stages and elsewhere, which can only be a good thing.

• Series PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Light, Colour and PerceptionSECTION ONEFrom Natural to Artificial LightThe Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and The Duchess of MalfiHenry Irving, Gaslight and The Bells Lighting in The Modern Era: Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry OrchardThe New Stagecraft Symbolist Drama and The Intruder: A Complex Engagement Beneath the SurfaceSECTION TWOFrom Modernism to the Postmodern EraA Semiotic Approach to Performance AnalysisCase Study: Loïe Fuller: Dancing with Light Case Study: Robert Wilson’s Einstein on the BeachCase Study: Tadashi Suzuki’s The Trojan Women SECTION THREEFrom the Gallery to the Community to the StageCase Study: James Turrell: Light, Space, Perception and DurationCase Study: The Winston Salem Light Project: Seeing Familiar Spaces in Unfamiliar Ways Case Study Refik Anadol: Light, Space and Artificial IntelligenceCase Study: David Byrne’s American Utopia: Live Theatre and Emergent TechnologyNotesReferencesFurther ReadingIndex

Dean Wilcox is Professor of Theatre History, Dramatic Literature and Humanities in the Division of Liberal Arts at The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, USA.

This book will help anyone who is serious about lighting design to think more deeply about the “why” of what we do when we put light on stages and elsewhere, which can only be a good thing.

• Series PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Light, Colour and PerceptionSECTION ONEFrom Natural to Artificial LightThe Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and The Duchess of MalfiHenry Irving, Gaslight and The Bells Lighting in The Modern Era: Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry OrchardThe New Stagecraft Symbolist Drama and The Intruder: A Complex Engagement Beneath the SurfaceSECTION TWOFrom Modernism to the Postmodern EraA Semiotic Approach to Performance AnalysisCase Study: Loïe Fuller: Dancing with Light Case Study: Robert Wilson’s Einstein on the BeachCase Study: Tadashi Suzuki’s The Trojan Women SECTION THREEFrom the Gallery to the Community to the StageCase Study: James Turrell: Light, Space, Perception and DurationCase Study: The Winston Salem Light Project: Seeing Familiar Spaces in Unfamiliar Ways Case Study Refik Anadol: Light, Space and Artificial IntelligenceCase Study: David Byrne’s American Utopia: Live Theatre and Emergent TechnologyNotesReferencesFurther ReadingIndex

Dean Wilcox is Professor of Theatre History, Dramatic Literature and Humanities in the Division of Liberal Arts at The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, USA.

This book will help anyone who is serious about lighting design to think more deeply about the “why” of what we do when we put light on stages and elsewhere, which can only be a good thing.

• Series PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Light, Colour and PerceptionSECTION ONEFrom Natural to Artificial LightThe Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and The Duchess of MalfiHenry Irving, Gaslight and The Bells Lighting in The Modern Era: Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry OrchardThe New Stagecraft Symbolist Drama and The Intruder: A Complex Engagement Beneath the SurfaceSECTION TWOFrom Modernism to the Postmodern EraA Semiotic Approach to Performance AnalysisCase Study: Loïe Fuller: Dancing with Light Case Study: Robert Wilson’s Einstein on the BeachCase Study: Tadashi Suzuki’s The Trojan Women SECTION THREEFrom the Gallery to the Community to the StageCase Study: James Turrell: Light, Space, Perception and DurationCase Study: The Winston Salem Light Project: Seeing Familiar Spaces in Unfamiliar Ways Case Study Refik Anadol: Light, Space and Artificial IntelligenceCase Study: David Byrne’s American Utopia: Live Theatre and Emergent TechnologyNotesReferencesFurther ReadingIndex