Engineers of the Imagination: Welfare State Handbook (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780413528001)

"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.

Author: Tony Coult
ISBN-10: 0413528006
ISBN-13: 9780413528001
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Language: English
Published: 04/10/2014
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.65d