Erika Naginski
Robert P. Hubbard Chair in Architectural History, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Breaching the Proscenium
This lecture considers the architecture of the theatre, highlighting some of the episodes, from Ledoux to Wagner, marking its emancipation from the world of the court to its presence in the city of which it became a flagship monument. At play throughout is the manipulation of the proscenium along with the illusionistic, dramaturgical, and ideological conditions it instigates.
