AbstractsBusiness Management & Administration

The following thesis has been prepared in the form of a design project which illustrates two possible solutions to the problem of presenting the visual aspects of the Inca play Ollantay in today???s theaters. To demonstrate the possibilities of using almost antithetical kinds of staging techniques,(such as realistic representational,or non-illusionistic-presentational) the physical theatre plans were selected to best serve these two styles of production.A series of eleven settings were designed in a "selective realism style" for the proscenium stage; a permanent platform stage in a constructivist style was created for a theater-in-the-round plans include black and white perspective, the floor plan, and a cross-section in elevation to show sight lines. Preceding the illustrations is a written discussion of the play,its history, and the special problems involved in designing the sets. [More abstract provided in the text.]