20th century theatre
...n Salzburg, Austria. (In the 1930s, Reinhardt also directed a few films in Hollywood.) The playwrights whose works he produced ranged from Sophocles through Shakespeare and Calderon to such modern writers as Frank Wedekind and Luigi Pirandello. Each production received its own unique style and scenic treatment, with the latter often incorporating the latest technical developments, including the revolving stage and plaster domes or cycloramas behind and above the stage. Popular alternatives to the proscenium design include the thrust stage--a platform surrounded by the audience on three sides--and the arena stage, which is completely surrounded by the audience. Some experiments have also been made with environmental staging, in which the stage surrounds the audience or several stages are interspersed through an audience area, thus creating a playing space like that of certain medieval performances. Where...