SOME TRENDS OF VIETNAM’S THEATRICAL ART DESIGN IN THE CURRENT PERIOD

Theatre is a kind of synthetic art. Theatre contains literature, music, painting, sculpture, dance, cinema...and actors' performance, with the direct participation of the audience, in which theatrical art design contributes an important part. Art design participates in the stage with the role of creating space, time, setting, and supporting for actors' performance. The role of the art designer is not only depicting physical spaces through scenes, lights, sounds, noises...but also evoking psychological space, hypothesis in the audience's imagination. Theatrical art design has developed, integrated, exploited and created the content and form of expression following some of the certain trends, from this has renewed somewhat itself and got out of the stagnant, rigid thinking way that becomes a habit...with the view to bring in the novelty.