| Author/Contributor(s): | Coult, Tony ; Kershaw, Baz |
| Publisher: | Methuen Drama |
| Date: | 04/10/2014 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
"Welfare State International are brilliant at making an audience of strangers into a community" (Guardian)
Since its foundation by John Fox in 1968, Welfare State International has developed a unique form of celebratory theatre that reaches popular audiences through remarkable combinations of archetypal and contemporary imagery.
This handbook is a guide to the basic techniques of the company's work - the making of processions; large scale puppets and sculptures; fixed structures; fire and ice technology; shadow puppets; processional theatre and dance music - set in a context that explains the thinking behind the work, and describes some past Welfare State International events. This is first and foremost a practical book rather than an academic treatise.