Creating Outdoor Theatre: A Practical Guide

Author(s): Nina Ayres

Adult General Non-fiction

"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.


Product Information

Features and reviews in The Stage Newspaper, Amateur Stage and The Society of British Theatre Designers.Reviews in Express, Musical Stages and National Assoc of Youth Theatre.

Nina Ayres graduated from the Central School of Speech and Drama, specializing in theatre design, and is now a highly-respected freelance theatre designer, and maker of props, costumes and puppets. She has worked with a wide range of theatre, film and television production companies, both in the UK and overseas, in roles ranging from costume designer to art director. The productions she has been involved in have included small-scale touring pieces to large community theatre events. Resident - London

General Fields

  • : 9781847970459
  • : The Crowood Press Ltd
  • : The Crowood Press Ltd
  • : 26 September 2008
  • : 235mm X 165mm X 11mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Nina Ayres
  • : Nina Ayres
  • : black & white photographs & diagrams
  • : black & white photographs & diagrams
  • : Theatre, drama
  • : Theatre, drama
  • : 160
  • : 160
  • : 792.022
  • : 792.022
  • : Paperback
  • : Paperback