Chapter 7
Music and Language
Introduction: “All Theatre Starts with a Script”
In 1999, I was invited to participate in a Scenography Symposium at the OISTAT Scenography Commission meetings in Antwerp, Belgium. The symposium title was “Theatre and Design Today: Does the Scenographer Need to Become Director?” But before that subject could even get off the ground, Belgian director Marc Schillemans took me by surprise when he started his presentation by saying, “All theatre starts with a script.” While I simultaneously recognized that most everybody in the room tacitly agreed with his assessment, I also knew that we had been traveling down two very different aesthetic paths.
Schillemans’s assumption inevitably led me to the subject of my presentation ...
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