10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERIAKTOS»
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periaktos in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Dagda Tanner Mattheus, 2012
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Technical Design Solutions for Theatre: The Technical Brief ...
As Technical Director for the production I considered and ruled out several
means of rotating the units: friction drives, worm gear drives, and chain drives
with a sprocket on each periaktos — all would be too expensive or time-
consuming.
Ben Sammler, Don Harvey, 2002
A periaktos is a three-sided standing unit that looks like a large pylon; it moves
and swivels on casters. SEE 14.13 Set pieces are often constructed in modular
dimensions so that they can be fitted together in different combinations. Some set
...
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Technical Design Solutions for Theatre: The Technical Brief ...
As Technical Director for the production I considered and ruled out several
means of rotating the units: friction drives, worm gear drives, and chain drives
with a sprocket on each periaktos — all would be too expensive or time-
consuming.
Bronislaw Joseph Sammler, Don Harvey, 2002
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International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms
From the dimensions of the skene building we can figure out the spatial envelope
in which the mechane would operate. Other pieces of stage machinery were the
periaktos and the ekkyklema. Periaktos was a revolving piece of scenery, which ...
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The Attic theatre: a description of the stage and theatre of ...
periaktos to the right of the audience depicted views in the immediate
neighbourhood of the city where the action was taking place. The periaktos to the
left represented a more remote country. This fact corresponds exactly with the
regulation ...
Arthur Elam Haigh, Sir Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge
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True Tales from the Mad, Mad, Mad World of Opera
Perfect, we said. We carefully placed the periaktos on the stage. It was essential
that they be in just the right spot because our projections would be aimed over
them at a specific angle. All we needed was time to set the twelve PANI
projectors.
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Proceedings of EUCOMES 08: The Second European Conference on ...
Other pieces of stage machinery were the periaktos and the ekkyklema. Periaktos
was a revolving piece of scenery, which was used as todays revolving stage for
quick change of scenery. It had three faces, and was supported on a vertical ...
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THE FRENCH STAGE IN THE XVIIth CENTURY
Haigh views them as triangular prisms placed at either end of the stage,
coinciding with the scene painting on the back wall and harmonizing with the
topography of the theatre in that the periaktos on the English stage right would
represent the ...
Thomas Edward Lawrenson, 1957
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Performance in Greek and Roman Theatre
3) suggests that a Roman relief shows a periactus, but his argument is not
compelling: “the broken line and dizzy angles suggest that we are actually
looking at a sculptor's rendering of a trompe l'oeil scene painting set on a
periaktos that is not ...
George William Mallory Harrison, Vaios Liapēs, Vayos Liapis, 2013
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PERIAKTOS»
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periaktos is used in the context of the following news items.
Chance meets opportunity at NEYT
... wooden structures built on smoothly-operating caster wheels, he chimed in with their technical term: periaktoi, the plural form of periaktos, ... «Commons, Mar 15»
Family matters: 'Sound of Music' still has power to move
“Set changes have to be as quick as possible, so we're using a technique called Periaktos, a three-sided device which can be easily moved. «Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier, Jun 14»
Small-city constraints spur design innovation, cooperation
The painted sets have been mounted on something called “periaktos” — from a Greek word meaning “revolving” — which in this case entails ... «Juneau Empire, Feb 14»
