Brew-Riverson, H. E. (2013). CELEBRATING INNOVATORS OF THE TOTAL THEATRE SCENE DESIGN, STAGE ARCHITECTURE AND SPACE

The need for the creative forces of the playwright, the director, the actor, the designer and the architect as well as the dexterity of the general crew to forge and constitute a cohesive, potent effort in the development of a successful theatre production cannot be over-emphasized. As theatre artists, it should serve us well to take into cognizance the impact of what the likes of Adolphe Appia, Gordon Craig and the doyenne Efua Sutherland spent a large part of their lifetime to achieve in order that theatre might be what it is today and ought to be in the already-here tomorrow. This essay considers the inseparable interplay of the academic thinker’s invaluable inferences and the practically creative academic’s tangible exhibitions and demonstrations.