Engineers Of The Imagination: Welfare State Handbook

by Tony Coult (Editor), Baz Kershaw (Editor)

Overview

"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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780413528001
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/10/2014
Series:	Biography and Autobiography
Edition description:	REVISED
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)