"Creating Stage Ghosts: The Archeology of Spectral Illusion" Chapter

Story by Darian Berdysz

September 11, 2023

Abstract

Beth Kattelman's chapter "Creating Stage Ghosts: The Archeology of Spectral Illusion" has been published in DRAMATIC APPARITIONS AND THEATRICAL GHOSTS: THE STAGING OF ILLUSION ACROSS TIME AND CULTURES. Edited by Ann C. Hall and Alan Nadel. New York: Methuen. The chapter chronicles some of the techniques that theatre artists have used to create ghosts onstage, including special mechanical effects and optical tricks such as the Pepper's Ghost illusion.

Publication Date: Mon, 09/11/2023 - 00:00

Publication Type: Book Chapter

Primary Author

Curator, Theatre Research Inst
Special Collections and Area Studies