Framing the picture on the stage : props, stillness and the artist

• Main Author: Lui, Karen Jia Yi
• Other Authors: Kevin Andrew Riordan
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/74027
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The rising trend of paintings taking the centre stage in theatre is not new as it has precursors steeped in modernist plays including Jean Cocteau’s The Supernatural Portrait of Dorian Gray and earlier plays that date back to the nineteenth century. This trend has been noticed by Martin Meisel whose...