Looking into the abyss

Arnold Aronson's Looking into the Abyss is a collection of essays, lectures, speeches, and articles by a leading American theatre historian and theorist whose primary subject of inquiry and interest is scenography as an integral part of a theatrical production, its visuality, which is as important as words, actor's movement, sound, music, etc. Another important aspect is the understanding of theatre as a spatial art in time and with the interactive participation of the spectator. Thus, it does not understand scenography only as a visual art that can be studied separately from all other components.