Jacques Lecoq and the British Theatre

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-415-27025-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 225 g

Jacques Lecoq and the British Theatre brings together the first collection of essays in English to focus on Lecoq's school of mime and physical theatre. For four decades, at his school in Paris, Jacques Lecoq trained performers from all over the world and effected a quiet evolution in the theatre.
The work of such highly successful Lecoq graduates as Theatre de Complicite (The Winter's Tale with the Royal Shakespeare Company and The Visit, The Street of Crocodiles and The Causcasian Chalk Circle with the Royal National Theatre) has brought Lecoq's work to the attention of mainstream critics and audiences in Britain. Yet Complicte is just the tip of the Iceberg. The contributors to this volume, most of them engaged in applying Lecoq's work, chart some of the diverse ways in which it has had an impact on our conceptions of mime, physical theatre, actor training, devising street theatre and interculturalism.
This lively - even provocative - collection of essays focuses academic debate and raises awareness of the impact of Lecoq's work in Britain today.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chamberlain, Franc

Yarrow, Ralph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatertheorie, Ästhetik des Theaters, Theaterkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatersoziologie, Theaterpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction, Franc Chamberlain, Ralph Yarrow; Chapter 2: Jacques Lecoq, Modern Mime and the Zero Body. A Pedagogy for the Creative Actor., Simon Murray; Chapter 3 The Well of Possibilities: Theoretical and Practical Uses of Lecoq'S Teaching, Bim Mason; Chapter 4 The Theatre Which does not Exist: Neutrality to Interculturalism, John Martin; Chapter 5 The Masks of Jacques Lecoq, John Wright; Chapter 6 “Amusez-Vous, Merde!”: The Effect of Philippe Gaulier's Teaching on My Work as an Actor and Writer, Victoria Worsley; Chapter 7 Jos Houben: Understanding the Neutral Mask, Anthony Shrubsall; Chapter 8 Afterword, Ralph Yarrow; Chapter 9 Lecoq Talk, David Gaines;

Über Autor(innen)

Franc Chamberlain is Senior Lecturer in Performance Studies at University College Northampton. He is performer, director and writer.
Ralph Yarrow is Senior Lecturer at the University of East Anglia where he teaches drama, European literature and French language. He has directed and performed in India and Britain, and in English, French and German; his writings include adaptations for the stage. He writes on the theory and practice of improvisation, on contemporary literary and dramatic theory, on consciousness and aesthetics, and now on Indian theatre. His directing covers Kokoschka, Jarry Rozewicz, Churchill, Daniels, Pinter and Vinaver. _