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Theatres during English Restoration |
-Drury Lane increases seating to 2,000 by 1762
-Covent Garden increases seating from 1400-2,000 by 1780
-Theatres not made bigger, more seats are jammed in
-Aristocrats still in boxes, main audience (middle class men) in the pit, middle class women in lower gallery, servants and working class in upper gallery.
-west end becomes upper class theatre district, east end lower class theatre district |
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Scenic Design in Romantic Italy |
-part of Romanticism, 18th century, lots of influence
-Torelli spread perspective, rapid shifts of scenery, spectacle special effects
-Galli Bibiena added antoher vanishing point, multiple point perspective=scenery par angelo=scenery on an angle. using 2D paintings made to look 3D
Piranesi writes "Romantic Artist and Architect" book, limited color palette, darkness comes first and you look through the darkness to the light
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innovations in 19th century lighting |
-gaslight technology invented, installed in Drury Lane in 1817 -Gas flow can be controlled from one place -lighting design more commonplace -gas battons, held lights which illuminated the whole stage, affected scenery and costumes to become more specific and delicate |
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Innovations in Germany 18th century (romanticism) |
-retractable footlights -brought in stage machinery -raked stage |
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19th century staging changes |
-less stock scenery, plays have a year to be produced and get specialized backdrops -archaelogical realism becomes popular because people start travelling to places like egypt and greece and digging up evidence -above stage (flies) and below stage (cellar) lots of machinery -stage always raked-improve visibility for house -discover of gas=lighting improved. 1810s, very short period with gas -used gas battons as opposed to pipes |
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limelights |
19th century, calcified lime glows very bright when burned -first followspot - were able to put a barrier to create a spotlight instead of floodlight effect -set up in fly lofts -used gas bags, like pedals with half oxygen and half hydrogen |
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electricity |
starts being used in late 19th century -carbon arcs which would light up by two wires when connected but would burn up so had o be constantly adjusted -Savoy theatre completely elecrical by 1881 -set up stays the same but gas flames replaced with lightbulbs=temperature goes way down -fires go down, had become very bad and common -fire regulations cause amount of people to go down, size peaks in 1850 then starts to go down arm |
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materials in 19th century |
-traps and other technologies start to made with iron and then steel -steel makes balconies much deeper which causes acoustical issues- area under balcony cant hear as well |
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pictoral realism |
-surface representation meant to look real -rather than naturalism which is a psychological representation of reality -more and more built scenery and painted backdrops |
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theatres and theatre companys in 19th century |
-not seperated by company and theatre all one thing -victorian theatres were gold and purple -area in front called stalls, seats that were reserved |
