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The Art and Occupation of Stage Design in Finnish Theatres: The Rise and Fall of a Professional Community

The Art and Occupation of Stage Design in Finnish Theatres: The Rise and Fall of a Professional Community

Gröndahl, Laura

Paperback

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

General DesignTechnical Theater

ISBN10: 1032480173
ISBN13: 9781032480176
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 26 2025
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This study explores the formation, establishment, expansion, and disintegration of stage design as a modern profession and a recognized artform in Finnish theatres.

Drawing on oral or written recollections and thoughts of stage designers from different decades, the author asks how their artistic agencies, occupational identities, and theoretical self-understanding have been constituted. She analyses Finnish theatre history from new perspectives by shifting the focus from finished performances to largely unknown practices behind the scenes. This book examines the cultural institutions that have constituted the stage designers' role and position, like the professional city theatre system, the craft union, and education. This research shows how modern and postmodern scenographic innovations have been assimilated to local contexts, and how material and cultural circumstances have reshaped the artistic practices. Without bypassing canonical trendsetters or hegemonic cultural mindsets, the focus is directed on the everyday grassroot level of stage design practices. Personal interviews with over 20 designers make visible an ample repertoire of unwritten knowledge stored in habitual ways of working and dealing creatively with the complex system of theatre making.

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