E. Gordon Craig

Edward Gordon Craig: Innovator and Pioneer

Edward Gordon Craig was an Englishman, that throughout his career, excelled in many different areas of art. He was an actor, a theater director, a critic, a publisher, an editor, a book illustrator, an essayist, a self taught artist, and most notably a pioneer and revolutionary of theater technology and concept. He was the second child of a relationship between the actress Ellen Terry and Edwin Godwin, an architect and scene designer. Initially, Craig tried following in the footsteps of his mother by becoming an actor. At the age of six, he made his first stage appearance in a production of “Olivia,” for Sir Henry Irving’s company at the Lyceum Theater in London, which his mother was leading lady. After some time, the limitations of an actor’s life began to dawn on him. Craig had dreams of creating a new kind of theater. His mission to transform the theater would occupy him throughout the remainder of his life and create...