Confined

Drama/plays can be played out on a movie screen, as well as a shared space with live performance. Theatre should only be able to take place in a shared (not oppressive) space.

Rojo and Schneckner's MAKBETH

MAKBETH, freely adapted from Shakespeare's play by The Performance Group, directed by Richard Schechner at the Performing Garage in NYC, 1971. The audience entered the theatre from the second floor and descended a spiral stairway. The performers and spectators used vertical ladders to move from one level to another. Black seating pads were placed throughout the playing areas to designate audience seating. The designer's concept for clothes centered on the image of a "jumpsuit" which provided a practical garment for the highly physical acting performance of the production. Velvet fabric and colors helped to designated the family groups of characters in the play's story. After a limited run of the production, the theatre, with the environment totally intact, became a popular venue for various theatre groups who rented the space from the Performance Group for a year. As a result, the designer was invited to develop, now, so called, environmental theatres for other institutions such as Sara Lawrence College and the University of Connecticut

Rojo's Tooth of Crime

a Sam Shepherd play...

Jerry Rojo design

an innovator from the environmental movement. Design fro Mother Courage.

Dionysus in 69

One of the most famous examples of Environmental Theatre.

DIONYSUS in 69, a built piece loosely adapted from Eurepedies THE BACCHAE, by The Performance Group, directed by Richard Schechner at The Performing Garage, NYC; 1969. The photo shows of one of two identical "towers of Thebes", placed at two corners of the theatre's playing area.