Christopher Baugh (Q39636)
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English author and drama professor
- Baugh, Christopher
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Christopher Baugh is Emeritus Professor of Performance and Technology at the University of Leeds. As scenographer he has worked in the USA, Bristol, Manchester, London, and Dublin. He has written extensively on the history of scenography and stage technologies in Garrick and Loutherbourg (1990), ‘Stage design from Loutherbourg to Poel’ in Donohue, J (ed.) The Cambridge History of British Theatre (2004); ‘Philippe de Loutherbourg: technology-driven entertainment and spectacle in the late eighteenth century’ in the Huntington Library Quarterly (2007); ‘Scenography and technology 1737-1843’ in Moody, J & O’Quinn, D (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre, 1737-1843 (2007); and, ‘Shakespeare and the rhetoric of scenography 1770-1825’, in Carson, C & Dymkowski, C (eds.) Shakespeare in Stages (2010). ‘Brecht and Stage Design: the Bühnenbildner and the Bühnenbauer’ (Cambridge, 1994 & 2006), and the second edition (Palgrave, 2013) of Theatre, Performance and Technology: The Development and Transformation of Scenography. In 1975 he was one of the founding members of the SBTD (Society of British Theatre Designers). (English)
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