Design tectonics: the basics converge with high-tech spectacle at a new stage-design expo.(World Stage Design exhibition)
American Theatre, July, 2005 by Pincus-Roth, Zachary
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There was a startling piece of sculpture at the back of the Toronto hotel ballroom that housed the World Stage Design exhibition this past March. Imagine a row of five tall, white, bookcase-like columns of rectangular blocks. Each of the blocks has a theatre design term on it, like "puppets," "scenography" and "bad theatre." The middle column has fallen on a man, a dummy, causing him to drop his briefcase, which has popped open, revealing TV screens embedded into each side of the case.
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