Creating Outdoor Theatre - A Practical Guide

By Nina Ayres

Creating Outdoor Theatre is a practical guide to putting on a performance outside, offering a brief history of outdoor theatre and explaining the unique production opportunities it offers. The book explains the design and production considerations peculiar to performing outdoors, including health and safety aspects, facilities for actors and audience, transporting equipment, and the logistics of licensing, negotiating with local authorities and even police liaison.

Topics covered: Choosing the right venue Designing and making props Constructing the stage Seating Coping with bad weather

"Readers of this book may find their imaginations challenged to pursue alternative projects that are not dependent on an existing amphitheatre but may be presented quite well, even with minimal funds for materials. Ayres's book may open doors in the imagination to ambitious performers eager to act on their own initiative."
Review Type: Press
Reviewed By: Dramatics - April 2010

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