Art of Stage Design — DRA2250.01
A set design communicates lots of information to an audience, and provides the physical world in which a performance takes place. In his book The Dramatic Imagination, the great set designer Robert Edmond Jones wrote: 鈥溾e may fairly speak of the art of stage designing as poetic, in that it seeks to give expression to the essential quality of a play rather than to its outward characteristics.鈥 Students in this course will work through the process of designing stage sets in which poetic expression is evident and functionality is addressed.