Props

This diverse book brings together theoretical and practical viewpoints on objects in performance, how they can be part of theatre scenery, equal partners in performance, or autonomous things. Through close analysis of specific performances, Eleanor Margolies examines actor training, scenography, materials, construction techniques and object theatre. The text investigates a number of critical questions, including: what the difference is between a theatre prop and an everyday object; how audiences respond to the various ways that props are used by actors and designers; and whether devising with ''stuff'' affect the making process or the attitudes to materiality embodied in performance.With discussions of papier mache and collapsing chairs, fake food and stage blood, is an essential sourcebook for students, practitioners and researchers of theatre, design and prop-making.>

About the author

Eleanor Margolies is an independent scholar and a documenter for the Object Theatre Network at Nottingham Trent University, UK.SIMON SHEPHERD is Professor of Theatre and Deputy Principal (Academic) at the Central School of Speech and Drama, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Eleanor Margolies
• Assisted by: Simon Shepherd (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.09.2016
• EAN: 9781137413369
• ISBN: 978-1-137-41336-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Readings in Theatre Practice; Readings in Theatre Practice
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; B, History, Stage management, object theatre;theatre;theatre studies;props, Technology and Stagecraft