Equipment (theater)

The equipment is the entire visual design of a theater performance , which is not directly related to the leadership - in contrast to direction , dramaturgy or incidental music . When it comes to film, one speaks more of a production design .

The term is mainly used when the functions of set designer , lighting designer and costume designer coincide in one person. A famous outfitter was Adolphe Appia . In the opera in particular , directors sometimes come from the “equipment” like Robert Wilson .

At larger theaters there is often a head of equipment as the supervisor for the areas of set design, costumes, masks and props . He mediates between the theater and external outfitters and oversees production and furnishing.

literature

• Arnold Jacobshagen (Hrsg.): Practice music theater. A manual, Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, 2002, pp. 43-44, ISBN 3890075126