Boceto para Macbeth, 1908

The British Edward Gordon Craig (1872–1966) —actor, draftsman, engineer, engraver, designer, art theorist— emerged at the beginning of the 20th century as the great prophet of modern theater. The crucial period of his work took place between 1900 and 1914. By the age of thirty, he had completed seven productions, in which he not only wrote and performed the texts but also designed sets and costumes and directed the actors. The publication in England, in 1911, of On the Art of Theatre made him the most important theater theorist of the 20th century...[+]