Liam Jarvis, Sue Buckmaster

Theatre-Rites

Animating Puppets, Objects and Sites

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Theatre-Rites are regarded as pioneers in the field of object-led and site-specific performance, creating ground-breaking work for family audiences. This book marks the company's 25th anniversary, offering the first in-depth exploration of Artistic Director Sue Buckmaster's visionary practice in which anything can be animated.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781138352247
• ISBN-10: 1138352241
• Artikelnr.: 69944747

Autorenporträt

Liam Jarvis is a theatre-maker, director and practitioner-researcher. He is currently Co-Director of the Centre for Theatre Research (CTR) and a Senior Lecturer in Theatre in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS) at the University of Essex. Sue Buckmaster is the artistic director of Theatre-Rites and the fifth generation of theatre practitioners in her family. She has many years of experience as a director, puppetry specialist and teacher, and has worked with a wide variety of companies including the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Young Vic, Sadler's Wells, Three Sixty Entertainment, Akram Khan Company and Complicité.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction 2 The Birth of Theatre-Rites 3 Puppet Whispering and
Object-led Play 4 Puppetry and Actors: The Extension of the Ego 5 Puppetry
and Child Development: Making Child-friendly Performances 6 Dance and
Puppetry: The Place for Abstraction 7 Site-specific Theatre for Families 8
Objects, Power and Personal Political Narratives 9 Puppetry and Death 10
Cross-artform Collaborations: Playing Across Artforms 11
Interdisciplinarity in Object-theatre: Playing Across Different Fields 12
Sue Buckmaster's Theatrical Ancestry