Puppets & Puppetry

The puppet creates delight and fear. It may evoke the innocent play of childhood, or become a tool of ritual magic, able to negotiate with ghosts and gods. Puppets can be creepy things, secretive, inanimate while also full of spirit, alive with gesture...

Sensory Theatre: How to Make Interactive, Inclusive, Immersive Theatre for Diverse Audiences by a Founder of Oily Cart is an accessible step-by-step guide to creating theatre for inclusive audiences, such as young people on the autism spectrum or...

This study analyzes the folkloric genres that comprise the repertoire of the marionette theater in Sicily. Here, epic, farce, saints' lives, bandits' lives, fairytales, Christian myth, and city legend offer the vehicles by which puppeteers comment...

Marionettes are loved by puppeteers and audiences for what they can do on stage, but they can be challenging to design, make and perform. This beautiful book clearly explains the process from making the puppets to putting them on strings and bringing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486449036Author John Payne CollierFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

The 30 original, reproducible puppet scripts in this collection are designed for the one-person show. Advice and suggestions on all aspects of presenting a puppet show, patterns for puppets, and illustrated instructions for construction accompany the...

From the Waterstones Prize-shortlisted author of Our Castle by the Sea comes a gorgeously gothic story, perfect for fans of Emma Carroll and Frances Hardinge ... 'My book of the year. This is storytelling so secure and...

In recent years, puppetry has enjoyed a huge revival on the stages of our theatres, dance venues and opera houses. Large-scale productions such as War Horse and The Lion King have revitalized age-old techniques to attract new audiences and develop the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985338435Author Deborah HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Maskhunt MotionsPublisher Maskhunt MotionsWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Making and Manipulating Marionettes is a comprehensive guide to the design, construction and control of string puppets, a craft and performance art that has fascinated audiences for over two thousand years. Topics covered include: An introduction to...

Thunderbirds, Stingray, Fireball XL5, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, UFO and Space:1999 just some of the TV series produced by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson that have thrilled generations of people worldwide from the 1960s right into the 21st Century. As...

The puppet can entertain or terrify, evoke the innocence of childhood, or become a magical entity, able to negotiate with ghosts and gods. Puppets are often creepy things, inanimate while also full of spirit, alive with gesture and voice. In this...

"The most sensational, perpetual teenager in the world." -Jim Henson "To know him was to love him, and we do." -Mark Hamill Funny Boy: The Richard Hunt Biography tells the life story of a gifted performer whose gleeful irreverence, sharp wit and...

Throw Your Voice is a story of loss and recovery. It relates how children placed in a temporary care institution make sense of their situations. Moving between a Kazakhstan government children's home, Hope House, and the Almaty State Puppet Theater,...

Shadow Puppets and Shadow Play is a comprehensive guide to the design, construction and manipulation and presentation of shadow puppets, considered by many to be the oldest puppet theatre tradition. Traditional shadow play techniques, together with...

Say 'Eh-oh!' to Nikky Smedley and Laa-Laa Over the Hills and Far Away follows Nikky through the Teletubbies years, from her role as a bistro table during her audition to the show's international success and the accompanying hounding by the press. ...

In this sophisticated and compelling introduction to puppet theatre, Penny Francis offers engaging contemporary perspectives on this universal art-form. She provides an account of puppetry's different facets, from its demands and techniques, through its...

Celebrating over 50 years of the classic TV series, this beautiful, lavish hardback written by Thunderbirds expert Marcus Hearn. Contains exclusive, never before published behind the scenes material and interviews with cast and crew and tells the story...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984208586Author April BruckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Cfbp BestsellersPublisher Cfbp BestsellersWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486418766Author Albert AlmozninoFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Theatre-Rites are regarded as pioneers in the field of object-led and site-specific performance, creating ground-breaking work for family audiences since 1995. This book marks the company's 25th anniversary, offering the first in-depth exploration of...

The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance offers a wide-rangingperspective on how scholars and artists are currently re-evaluating the theoretical, historical,and theatrical significance of performance that embraces the agency of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780941599061Author Paul StadelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Piccadilly Books,U.S.Publisher Piccadilly Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 138g

One of the oldest storytelling traditions, shadow theatre combines puppetry with music, philosophy, history, storytelling, fashion, ritual, religion, and education. While each nation in Southeast Asia has its own distinct culture, shadow theatre is a...

Drawing on thirty years of making theatre with objects, this field-defining book maps the terrain of applied puppetry. Through a range of case studies both personal and practical, Matt Smith offers a reflective and engaging study which provides...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786029750799Author Ardian PurwoseputroFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint AfterhoursPublisher Afterhours

Bali's shadow puppet theater, like others in Southeast Asia, is a complex tradition with many conventions that puzzle Western observers. Mary Zurbuchen demonstrates how the linguistic codes of this rich art form mediate between social groups, cultural...

As with many performing arts in Asia, neither the highly stylized images of the Javanese shadow play nor its musical complexity detracts from its wide popularity. By a context-sensitive analysis of shadow-play performances, Ward Keeler shows that they...

In its exploration of puppetry and animation as the performative media of choice for mastering the art of illusion, To Embody the Marvelous engages with early modern notions of wonder in religious, artistic, and social contexts. From jointed, wood-carved...

This work includes a brief history of skyscrapers as well as chapters on elevators and communications, facades and facing, mechanical and electrical systems, forces of nature, and much more.About the AuthorAuthored by Priwer, Shana; Phillips,...

Drawing on the author's two decades of seeing, writing on, and teaching about puppetry from a critical perspective, this book offers a collection of insights into how we watch, understand, and appreciate puppetry.Reading the Puppet Stage uses examples...

Women and Puppetry is the first publication dedicated to the study of women in the field of puppetry arts. It includes critical articles and personal accounts that interrogate specific historical moments, cultural contexts, and notions of "woman" on and...

Indonesian wayang kulit (shadow puppet) performance is one of the oldest and greatest storytelling traditions in the world and lies close to the heart of Javanese culture. These flat puppets, made from water buffalo hide, are elaborately decorated and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486295138Author Henry BursillFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Children'sPublisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 232mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780762487394Author Nick PerilliFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Rp MinisPublisher Rp MinisWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 100mm * 83mm * 50mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578292373Author Chad WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Wonderspark PuppetsPublisher Wonderspark PuppetsWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 279mm...

For almost half a century, celebrated ventriloquist and entertainer Shari Lewis delighted generations of children and adults with the help of her trusted sock puppet sidekick Lamb Chop. For decades, the beloved pair were synonymous with children's...

A richly illustrated study of wayang, the traditional puppet theater form of Java, based on unprecedented decades-long participatory research. Wayang, the traditional puppet theater form of Java, fascinates and endures thanks to the many ways it works as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780921845508Author Luman Robert CoadFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Charlemagne PressPublisher Charlemagne PressWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 254mm...

Drawing on the author's two decades of seeing, writing on, and teaching about puppetry from a critical perspective, this book offers a collection of insights into how we watch, understand, and appreciate puppetry.Reading the Puppet Stage uses examples...