Miming

'In life, I want students to be alive and on stage I want them to be artists' Jacques Lecoq Jacques Lecoq was one of the most inspirational theatre teachers of our age. In The Moving Body, he shares with us first-hand his unique philosophy of...

The Applied Theatre Reader is the first book to bring together new case studies of practice by leading practitioners and academics in the field and beyond, with classic source texts from writers such as Noam Chomsky, bell hooks, Mikhail Bakhtin, Augusto...

Mime the Gap: Techniques in Mime and Movement explores the physicality of movement in storytelling, offering new ideas about acting and performance, whilst encouraging a contemporary resurgence of this traditional performance art. With detailed,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916260552Author Claude KipnisFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Meriwether Publishing,U.S.Publisher Christian Publishers LLC

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780921845362Author Bari RolfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Charlemagne PressPublisher Charlemagne PressWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

The origin and essence of the Western mime are examined in the first part of the book. Traceable to the masked roleplaying of Greek theatre, many of the sacred functions of mime in early rituals were carried into later secular performances. The second...

First published in 1986, this compilation offers a guide to the major aspects of contemporary British theatre. In the period covered, Britain was among the world leaders in theatre as the post-war years saw a remarkable surge in theatrical creativity,...

A dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire resource book, part of the bestselling Drama Games series, offering 80 games and exercises to explore the fundamental concepts of clowning and physical comedy, encourage playfulness, curiosity and collaboration, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916260736Author FederFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 285g

This volume analyses the nature of the mime art of Deburau and of the pantomime performances of the Theatre des Funambules in Paris in the context of Romantic art, literature and socio-political thought. Deburau and the Theatre des Funambules are...

This is the first book to investigate the social, political, cultural, artistic and economic forces which created conditions for the rise, success and decline of mime and physical theatre in the United Kingdom, from the 1970s to 2000.Unpicking the...

Annette Bercut Lust has spent a lifetime developing the knowledge to produce this definitive work on mime. One of the few studies covering the historical flow of mime from its beginnings to postmodern movement theatre, this book explores the evolution...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692993750Author Michael EvansFormat HardbackPage Count 214Imprint Michael EvansPublisher Michael EvansWeight(grams) 980gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935904038Author Dick RichardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams)...

The San Francisco Mime Troupe Reader is a long-overdue collection of some of the finest political satires created and produced by the Tony Award-winning company during the last forty years. It is also a history of the company that was the theater of the...

'In life, I want students to be alive and on stage I want them to be artists' Jacques LecoqJacques Lecoq was one of the most inspirational theatre teachers of our age. In The Moving Body, he shares with us first-hand his unique philosophy of performance,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780921845515Author Bari RolfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Charlemagne PressPublisher Charlemagne PressWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

This book, a companion to the author's Pierrot: A Critical History of a Mask (Princeton, 1978), provides a detailed history of nineteenth-century French pantomime, from the feeries of Jean-Gaspard Deburau at the Theatre des Funambules to the cabaret...

1. Of interest to actors and object-animators.2. Useful for directors, devisers, and collective creators3. A new way of looking at the theatre history of the 20th century4. Good for Theatre Anthropologists.Book InformationISBN 9781032071916Author Thomas...

This is the first book to investigate the social, political, cultural, artistic and economic forces which created conditions for the rise, success and decline of mime and physical theatre in the United Kingdom, from the 1970s to 2000.Unpicking the...