The Stagecraft Over the past several years I have worked to develop a stagecraft that enables live performers to inhabit illusionary 3-dimensional stage sets. The audience wears polarized glasses that allow sterograghic projected stage imagery to create illusions of volumetric space. These projected 'soft sets' require special semi-transparent screens and lighting and the projected imagery is scaled to fit the performers actions serving as a theatrical infrastructure that supports all forms of multimedia; scrolling text, data animations, and film. The performers appear to be inhabiting illusions of architectural space that project out into the audience or extend deep into the receding stage area. This staging system was developed at our theater in San Francisco and has toured to Japan, to the Spoletto Festival in Charleston South Carolina and recently to the Festival Internacional des Artes Cenicas in Sao Paulo Brazil. For 20/20 Blake it provides an ideal means to bring the art of William Blake to life on stage merging text and visual art with the living theater. - George Coates
	The Tyger Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, and what art Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? and what dread feet? What the hammer? what the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp? When the stars threw down their spears And watered heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee? Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
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