Periacts
Periaktos or Periaktoi ( Sg. Periaktos ) were three-sided prisms of wood, which for changing the scenery served the Greek theater. Each of the three sides was painted differently so that a quick change of scenery was possible. They rested on rotating axes (pegs embedded in the floor of the stage) and, through their differently painted surfaces, indicated now this landscape, now that landscape. The stage wall with the rooms behind it was covered, the rest of the stage and the auditorium were uncovered.
In the early Renaissance, the Telari stage took up this type of backdrop construction again. Painted Telari were modeled on the ancient periacts and complemented a likewise painted prospectus in the background. Periacts are also occasionally used in today's stage construction, including on amateur stages, but also at theater festivals, and are supplemented there with projections.
literature
- Martin Nilsson: The old stage and the periacts . 1914 ( Google Book in Google Book Search).
Individual evidence
- ^ August Friedrich von Pauly, Christian Walz, Wilhelm Sigismund Teuffel: Real-Encyclopadie der classischen antiquity studies . 1832, p. 1767 f . ( Reference to Periakten in the Google book search).
- ↑ dramatik.ch: http://dramatik.ch/pages/buehnenbau/der-gewisse-dreh.php stage construction . Retrieved December 15, 2012