Self-Supporting Scenery for Children's Theatre: A Scenic Workshop for the Open Stage

by James Hull Miller

Book Overview

Free-standing scenery creates its own theatre - compact, economical, and flexible. It marches right into any stage space, classroom, recreation hall, or outdoor theatre space. This stagecraft book, with over 175 drawings, tells how to construct self-supporting scenery, covering tools, materials, designs, and craft. An excellent theatre reference book, now in its fifth edition, James Hull Miller is a leading designer in the field with over 50 years...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916260917
• ISBN13: 9780916260910
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: Meriwether Publishing
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.4" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Breaking out of the proscenium

James Hull Miller's life-time work in the area of self-supporting scenery is neatly organized and laid out in this book. This reference is especially useful to those producing a play, musical, etc., in a setting that is not the typical theater. Mr. Miller demonstrates that utilizing free-standing set pieces allows greater versitililty than the conventional set. His ideas are innovative, invigorating and inspiring! "Self-Supporting Scenery for Children's Theater and Grown-up's Too" contains both the theory behind free-standing sets and the practical "how-to" for building pieces. I like this book because it offers practical solutions to the problem of staging in an area that has no proscenium arch. The sets are light in weight, store easily, transport well and look good. Mr. Miller's expertise is obvious and appreciated.