Small Stage Sets on Tour: A Practical Guide to Portable Stage Sets

James Hull Miller

ISBN 10: 0916260461 / ISBN 13: 9780916260460

Published by Meriwether Pub, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Small Stage Sets on Tour: A Practical Guide to Portable Stage Sets
• Publisher: Meriwether Pub
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0916260461
• ISBN 13: 9780916260460
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Written by the leading authority on portable stage sets, James Hull Miller. This book contains Miller's fifty years of experience in design, construction, and application of portable stage sets. Dozens of actual sets and instructions for how to build them are included. This stagecraft text also examines various types of theatres and other playing spaces encountered in traveling productions. There are chapters on folding and clamped sets, stagecraft in schools and recital halls, and small theatre designs. An indispensable resource for stage crews and theatre students. Now in its second, revised edition.

About the Author

James Hull Miller, a graduate of Princeton, combined an academic background in literature and philosophy with many years of actual theatre experience, twelve of which were spent in teaching. From 1958 until his death in 2007, he was a freelance designer and consultant. His field of special interest was the development of a new stagecraft for the theatre which took the form of freestanding scenery. He designed numerous open-stage theaters based on this system of stagecraft for colleges, communities, student unions, schools and churches. For many years he maintained a scenic studio, the Arts Lab, in Shreveport, Louisiana, where he gave workshops as well as constructed sets for use in a variety of spaces.



Mr. Miller was a Charter Member of the U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology and in 1978 was named a Fellow of the Institute. He was also a Founding Member of the American Society of Theatre Consultants.