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Collaborative Spectacle: Designing The Merchant in the Ghetto

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Abstract

Karin Coonrod describes Compagnia de’ Colombari as an ‘international collective’ that ‘generates spectacle wherever we go’ – a collaboration of energy, creativity and theatricality nourished by different cultures, histories, traditions, disciplines and techniques. In this chapter we hear from three theatre makers whose collaborative work on The Merchant ‘in’ Venice shaped the ‘spectacle’ of this production. Designing its costumes (Stefano Nicolao), music (Frank London) and lighting (Peter Ksander), they established how this production looked and sounded and designed a world for the actors to inhabit.


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Published June 10, 2021 | Language: en

Keywords Costume design • Theatre design • Lighting design • Designing Shakespeare • The Merchant of Venice • Site-specific design • Compagnia de’ Colombari • Music design

Copyright © 2021 Frank London, Stefano Nicolao, Peter Ksander. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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