Let's Talk Musicals: Decoration, Costume, and Symbolic Design in Chinese Theatre

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Decoration, Costume, and Symbolic Design in Chinese Theatre

Hello,

So I researched Asian Theatre and found this site:

http://www.theatrehistory.com/asian/chinese002.html
(Can't figure out how to make it a link, so just copy paste it into a new tab)

It takes a closer look at Decoration, Costume, and Symbolic Design in Chinese Theatre. I chose this site because I have always been a big fan of the detail in both Chinese costuming and make-up but didn't know too much about it. Here they also describe the reasoning behind minimal, if any, scenery in Chinese theatre; they examine symbols embraced in the Chinese culture that are used in stage productions to convey meanings, mood, location, etc. They also discuss techniques used to convey scene changes with the absence of a set.

So, yeah.

1 comment:

Jacob WolstencroftMarch 15, 2012 at 9:41 PM
Love the section about what they accomplish with a lack of sets. Fascinating and inspirational of minimalist theatre. This gets my vote.
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