Product Description

Stock Scenery Construction Handbook is an easy to use, complete manual on scenery construction. It has over 180 full-page drawings showing construction techniques for every conceivable kind of stock scenery piece, from flats (plain ones, door units, hardwall, etc.), to platforms and step units (including two kinds of parallel platforms and even folding-brace stairs), to all kinds of soft goods like curtains and drops. The second edition includes a new chapter on paint and over 20 new illustrations. The author's wry sense of humor will delight and entertain every reader.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #140885 in Books
• Published on: 1998-12
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 321 pages

Customer Reviews

This is a must have for any theatre technical staff.
This book is written in an easy to understand, humorous way. Mr. Raoul has set a standard for building stock scenery, what scenery to stock, easy to follow steps for difficult units, and basic information for the novice. From the youngset to the more mature, this finely crafted work speaks in clear language to lead the uninitiated and the experienced toward higher quality scenery and more flexibility in achieving artistic goals on limited budgets.

A must for stock scenery construction
I attended a scene-building workshop with Mr. Raoul in 1980. I learned techniques that I use to this very day. A few short years later I purchased this book. I used it to death. (A book can only take so much sawdust and glue!) I bought a second copy which I subsequently gave to an up-and-coming technical director and then purchased my third copy. I seldom have to consult it anymore, as I have learned most of it by heart, but occasionally I will refer to it for an "odd" problem, and it is an excellent teaching resource. The illustrations perfectly illustrate the concepts being taught. The text is humorous but not at the expense of being informative. The section on "shop math" alone is worth the purchase price!

This book will not teach you how to design a set, but it will most definitely teach you how to build the pieces that make up most common stage scenery. Not only that, but you will be able to reuse most, if not all, of the pieces time and time again, which is a God-send for any theater on a budget! (And what theater isn't?!)

Stock Scenery Construction: A Handbook
This was the best book that we ordered! Although it is very much like a text book, this was exactly what we needed as a reference for building sets. It arrived in a timely fashion and the book was in excellent shape.