biography
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Craig, Edward (Henry) Gordon
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| male
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| lived:
| (1872–1966)
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| biography:
| Stage designer, actor, director, and theorist, born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SE England, UK. He worked for nine years as an actor in Irving's company, but left the Lyceum in 1897 to be both a director and a designer. He settled in Italy in 1906, where he published the theatre journal, The Mask (1908–29), which together with his scene designs and his books, On the Art of the Theatre (1911) and The Theatre Advancing (1921), had a profound influence on modern theatre practice. A pioneer of modern theatre, he replaced the decorative pseudo-realism of his time with a simple, structured stage defined by the expressive use of lighting. |
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