Abstract
This article reviews Patricia Flood’s new book, Susan Benson: Art, Design and Craft on Stage. With careful attention to details and techniques, Flood explores the life, the career, and the remarkable costumes and sets designed for theatre, opera, and ballet by one of Canada’s renowned theatre designers, Susan Benson. With an artist’s eye, Flood details the significant labour of taking Benson’s design work from research to performance and, in doing so, brings attention to the crafts, skills, and techniques of theatre design that often go overlooked and under-represented in the scholarship of theatre history, theory, and criticism. With almost 200 luxurious, full-colour images of set and costume renderings, design work in construction, and production photographs, this book is an invaluable resource not only for historians and scholars of theatre design, methods, and practices but also for art lovers in general.
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