o Robert Edmond JONES (1887-1954)
1. Studied in Europe 1912-15 with Gordon Craig
2. Sought to make theatre design evocative and not descriptive
3. Wrote The Dramatic Imagination (1941), definitive text for
metaphorical and non-illusionistic theatre design
“Lighting a scene consists not only in throwing light upon objects
but in throwing light upon a subject.”History of Lighting Design
o Robert Edmond JONES (1887-1954)
Sketch for Macbeth, 1920 History of Lighting Design
o Robert Edmond JONES (1887-1954)
Sketch for Macbeth, 1920 History of Lighting Design
o Stanley McCANDLESS (1897-1967)
1. Considered to be the grandfather of lighting designers
2. Taught the first stage lighting design class in 1926 at Yale
3. Wrote A Method of Lighting the Stage (1932) in which he proposed
the first systematic method for theatrical lighting, later known as the
McCandless Method History of Sound