The stagecraft handbook : [a complete guide to all aspects of constructing a stage set: managing a scene shop, selecting and handling materials, creating shop drawings, keeping costs in line

## The Stagecraft Handbook ## Daniel Ionazzi Get the complete, illustrated guide to scenery constructionUsing nails and wood, fabric and paint, hardware and rigging, you create an illusion. You build the make-believe world of the play. Now you have a scene-shop manual to help you. In "The Stagecraft Handbook," Daniel A. Ionazzi, director of production for the UCLA Department of Theater, offers trap-room-to-grid guidance. Clearly written, heavily illustrated, this book covers every aspect of scenery construction. Turn here and learn about: the four primary stage configurations–proscenium, thrust, arena and environmentalflying scenery and moving floorsorganizing the scene shop to make good scenery quickly and inexpensivelyshop tools and safetyscaled drawings, models and other communications tools you'll use to translate the designer's vision into a setmaterials commonly used in building sceneryconstruction techniques for flats, platforms and other standard scenic unitsinstalling and rigging scenerymaintaining an inventory of stock sceneryLet "The Stagecraft Handbook" help you turn ordinary materials into extraordinary illusions. 208 pages Published October 15th 1996 by Betterway Book ## Amazon.com Review The Stagecraft Handbook strives to be lightweight, compact, and economical. Daniel Ionazzi leaves the specifics to the designers, but provides practical, reliable advice for those involved in setting the stage. With chapters on tools, scale drawings, scenic materials, joinery, flats, and rigging to fly, Ionazzi provides valuable know-how to help novice and experienced stagecrafters create their dream sets within practical boundaries of time and money. The Greeks -- The Romans -- The Middle Ages -- The Italian Renaissance -- The 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries -- Forms of the theater. Proscenium -- Thrust -- Arena -- Environmental -- Theater equipment. Rigging systems -- Moving floors -- Masking -- Shop layout. Stock scenery storage -- Tools. Stationary power tools -- Portable power tools -- Hand tools -- Drilling tools -- Metalwork tools -- Welding -- Shop safety. Safety rules and procedures -- The shop environment -- Staff organization. Commercial shops -- Nonprofit shops -- Job descriptions -- Scale drawings. Drafting conventions and symbols -- Designer’s drawings -- Ground plans -- Sections -- Elevations -- Detail drawings -- Pictorials -- Construction drawings -- Paint elevations -- Models -- Wood. Board lumber -- Sheet goods -- Moulding -- Metal. Structural steel -- Tubing -- Pipe -- Plastics. Styrofoam -- Beadboard -- Acrylic -- Lexan -- Ethafoam -- Polyurethane foam -- PVC -- Fabric. Scenery fabrics -- Stage draperies -- Specialty fabrics -- Fasteners. Nails -- Staples -- Screws -- Bolts -- Adhesives -- Hardware -- Latches -- Casters -- Stage hardware -- Wire rope and accessories -- Fiber Rope -- Joinery -- Unframed scenery. Drops, Legs and borders -- Cut drops -- Framed scenery. Flats -- The cut list -- Door and window flats -- Soft-covering flats -- Hard-covering flats -- Studio flats -- Curved walls -- Steel flat frames -- Three-dimensional construction. Doors and windows -- Moulding -- Columns -- Trees -- Rocks -- Weight bearing scenic units. Platforms -- Wagons -- Slip stages, jackknife wagons and turntables -- Show decks -- Ramps and raked stage -- Stairs -- Paint preparation -- Joining scenery together. Joining traditional theatrical flats -- Stiffening -- Bracing -- Studio flats -- Installing the single set -- Shifting scenery. Shifting on the deck -- Rigging to fly -- Using fiber rope -- Stock scenery. Get the complete, illustrated guide to scenery construction Using nails and wood, fabric and paint, hardware and rigging, you create an illusion. You build the make-believe world of the play. Now you have a scene-shop manual to help you. In The Stagecraft Handbook, Daniel A. Ionazzi, director of production for the UCLA Department of Theater, offers trap-room-to-grid guidance. Clearly written, heavily illustrated, this book covers every aspect of scenery construction. Turn here and learn about: • the four primary stage configurations–proscenium, thrust, arena and environmental • flying scenery and moving floors • organizing the scene shop to make good scenery quickly and inexpensively • shop tools and safety • scaled drawings, models and other communications tools you'll use to translate the designer's vision into a set • materials commonly used in building scenery • construction techniques for flats, platforms and other standard scenic units • installing and rigging scenery • maintaining an inventory of stock scenery Let The Stagecraft Handbook help you turn ordinary materials into extraordinary illusions. Get the complete, illustrated guide to scenery construction Using nails and wood, fabric and paint, hardware and rigging, you create an illusion. You build the make-believe world of the play. Now you have a scene-shop manual to help you. In The Stagecraft Handbook , Daniel A. Ionazzi, director of production for the UCLA Department of Theater, offers trap-room-to-grid guidance. Clearly written, heavily illustrated, this book covers every aspect of scenery construction. Turn here and learn about: the four primary stage configurations–proscenium, thrust, arena and environmental flying scenery and moving floors organizing the scene shop to make good scenery quickly and inexpensively shop tools and safety scaled drawings, models and other communications tools you'll use to translate the designer's vision into a set materials commonly used in building scenery construction techniques for flats, platforms and other standard scenic units installing... epub, ebook "Using nails and wood, fabric and paint, hardware and rigging, you create an illusion. You build the make-believe world of the play." "Now you have a scene-shop manual to help you. In The Stagecraft Handbook, Daniel A. Ionazzi, director of production for the UCLA Department of Theater, offers trap-room-to-grid guidance. Clearly written, heavily illustrated, this book covers every aspect of scenery construction."--Jacket This manual covers every aspect of scenery c onstruction, with information on shop organisation, tools, s afety, scaled drawings and materials as well as construction techniques. A wealth of illustrations help show how to make quick, inexpensive scenery. ' An illustrated manual which covers all aspects of scenery construction, providing information on shop organization, tools, safety, scale drawings, materials and construction techniques.