Stage Lighting Design: A Practical Guide

By Neil Fraser

Stage Lighting Design is a comprehensive introduction to technical theatre, tracing the evolution of lighting design from ancient drama to contemporary performance. Neil Fraser covers everything that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861262485
• ISBN13: 9781861262486
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: The Crowood Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.1" x 0.6" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Neil Fraser shows LDs the light at the end of the tunnel!

Neil Fraser, Head of Lighting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art has continued his excellent guides to the world of theatre lighting design with "Stage Lighting Design, A Practical Guide". This book gives a fantastic first time insight into lighting design for beginners as well as giving useful tips to slightly more experienced designers and students. Sections are concise and maintain your interest with the use of innovative exercise suggestions and links to real life situations from Neil's own career. This is a valuable commodidty in a book of this kind, where it is easy to become bogged down in essential but unexciting theory - the book covers all the essentials in an easy to digest fashion as well as expanding on them to support their relvance to the career.It will shortly be followed by its partner book on Lighting Theory in order to complete the knowledge base required to begin lighting theatre.