Product Description: The puppet creates delight and fear. It may evoke the innocent play of childhood, or become a tool of ritual magic, able to negotiate with ghosts and gods. Puppets can be creepy things, secretive, inanimate while also full of spirit, alive with gesture and voice...read more

In this sophisticated and compelling introduction to puppet theatre, Penny Francis offers engaging contemporary perspectives on this universal art-form. She provides an account of puppetry's different facets, from its demands and techniques, through its uses and abuses, to its history and philosophy. Now recognized as a valuable and powerful medium used in the making of most forms of theatre and filmed work, those referring to Puppetry will discover something of the roots, dramaturgy, literature and techniques of this visual art form. The book gathers together material from an international selection of sources, bringing puppet theatre to life for the student, practitioner and amateur alike.

Reveals a world where a suitcase can comment on politics and a marionette can play Faust. This work is a practical exploration of the use of puppets and objects, and how they are used with light, shadows and sound in performance.

Shows you how to transform wooden spoons, pieces of string, holey socks, outgrown clothes and other scrap materials into beautiful, durable and functional theatrical puppets. This book helps you discover how to bring your puppets to life, build staging, scenery and props, create sound effects and devise performances.

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: Most guides to puppetry assume multiple puppeteers, large stage, elaborate props, custom-designed puppets and more. With library staffing and budgets stretched thin, and other curricular commitments for teachers, few have the time or resources to develop full-blown puppet performances...read more

Offers alternative theater productions that promote imagination, creativity, and confidence, and includes projects such as mythical drama, rock and roll playwriting, and an enhanced version of musical chairs.

Offers alternative theater productions that promote imagination, creativity, and confidence, and includes projects such as mythical drama, rock and roll playwriting, and an enhanced version of musical chairs.

Offers ten puppet plays loosely based on well-known fairy tales, representing a range of different themes, environments, and holidays. (view table of contents)

Offers alternative theater productions that promote imagination, creativity, and confidence, and includes projects such as mythical drama, rock and roll playwriting, and an enhanced version of musical chairs. (view table of contents)

Provides instructions and practical advice on how to make various kinds of puppets, how to construct a puppet stage, and how to present a show. (view table of contents)

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A guide to staging puppet shows in libraries provides advice on creating character voices and actions, writing scripts and adaptations of childrens' stories, and building puppet stages for children and the community. (view table of contents)

Presents information on constructing and staging puppet plays.

Provides teachers with ideas for combining storytelling with puppet making and puppet plays, with instructions for making different kinds of puppets (view table of contents)

Product Description: Playwriting for Puppet Theatre provides a foundation for those puppeteers, teachers and librarians who want to develop suitable scripts for puppet theatre. Mattson explores the difference between traditional theatre and puppet theatre and notes the special characteristics of the various puppets...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Plays are accompanied by information on sets, costumes, props, production and constructing puppets and stages

Provides instructions and practical advice on how to make various kinds of puppets, how to construct a puppet stage, and how to present a show

Product Description: Unlike other performing arts, puppetry is perhaps the only art form in which directing, acting, writing, designing, sculpture, and choreography are combined. In effect, the performer is creating an artistic entertainment that will appeal to audiences of all ages — in homes, in theaters, and in classrooms...read more