Theatre-Rites are regarded as pioneers in the field of object-led and site-specific performance, creating ground-breaking work for family audiences. This book marks the company’s 25th anniversary, offering the first in-depth exploration of Artistic Director Sue Buckmaster’s visionary practice in which anything can be animated.
Theatre-Rites are regarded as pioneers in the field of object-led and site-specific performance, creating ground-breaking work for family audiences. This book marks the company’s 25th anniversary, offering the first in-depth exploration of artistic director Sue Buckmaster’s visionary practice, in which anything can be animated.
This book draws on original research, including five years of in-depth interviews between its authors, images from Theatre-Rites’ archive and Buckmaster’s private collection, detailed observations from the company’s professional training workshops and personal reflections on past productions. A timely and compelling advocacy for the importance of high-quality experimental arts provision for young audiences is made, distilling learning from decades of the company’s professional activities to motivate and empower the next generation of object-led theatre-makers.
Theatre-Rites: Animating Puppets, Objects and Sites
is an invaluable resource for any puppeteer, actor, dancer, visual artist, poet or student interested in expanding their understanding of how to incorporate puppetry and/or symbolic objects as metaphors in their work.
1 Introduction 2 The Birth of Theatre-Rites 3 Puppet Whispering and
Object-led Play 4 Puppetry and Actors: The Extension of the Ego 5 Puppetry
and Child Development: Making Child-friendly Performances 6 Dance and
Puppetry: The Place for Abstraction 7 Site-specific Theatre for Families 8
Objects, Power and Personal Political Narratives 9 Puppetry and Death 10
Cross-artform Collaborations: Playing Across Artforms 11 Interdisciplinarity
in Object-theatre: Playing Across Different Fields 12 Sue Buckmasters
Theatrical Ancestry
Liam Jarvis is a theatre-maker, director and practitionerresearcher. He is currently Co-Director of the Centre for Theatre Research (CTR) and a Senior Lecturer in Theatre in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS) at the University of Essex.
Sue Buckmaster is the artistic director of Theatre-Rites and the fifth generation of theatre practitioners in her family. She has many years of experience as a director, puppetry specialist and teacher, and has worked with a wide variety of companies including the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Young Vic, Sadlers Wells, Three Sixty Entertainment, Akram Khan Company and Complicité.
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