Puppets & Puppetry

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 *...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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. ...

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

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985478247Author Jimmy VeeFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Atlas Press LLCPublisher Atlas Press LLCWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 288mm * 9mm

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

This work is the first thorough analysis of the creative oeuvre of the Quay Brothers. Known for their animation shorts that rely on puppetry, miniatures, and stop-motion techniques, their fiercely idiosyncratic films are fertile fields for Suzanne...

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...

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) 417g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648103011Author Margaret ArneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Karen MC DermottPublisher Karen MC DermottWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 297mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780921845454Author Seth ShafferFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Charlemagne PressPublisher Charlemagne PressWeight(grams) 203g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780921845492Author Gary JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Charlemagne PressPublisher Charlemagne PressWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780836283433Author Stephanie BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLCPublisher Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)...

Puppetry has become a significant force in contemporary theatre and thousands of puppets from various cultures and time periods have been collected by scholars, enthusiasts, and curators, who wisely realized that these material images can teach us...

By the end of its five-year run on television, The Muppet Show had transformed its motley cast from fistfuls of felt to multi-media celebrities. Sophisticated and highly individuated, each of the Muppets embodied a conventional character type from...

The plays presented here were first performed between 1769 and 1832, a time when the Japanese puppet theatre known as Bunraku was beginning to lose its pre-eminence to Kabuki. During this period, however, several important puppet plays were created that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088292495Author Melis MayFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Lost City of Atlantis - Tell Me a TalePublisher Lost City of Atlantis - Tell Me a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992686819Author John BeckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Rolling Ball PressPublisher Rolling Ball PressWeight(grams) 667g

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...