Copeau/Decroux, Irving/Craig a search for 20th century mime, mask & marionette / Thomas Leabhart.
| Author/creator | Leabhart, Thomas |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First Edition. |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Search for twentieth century mime, mask and marionette |
| Series | Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies |
| Contents | Introduction: Lessons from Prague -- Blowing up the Palace and Hanging up on the Opera -- Monkey Business and Robin Revelations: Animal Observation in Actor Training -- Friday Night Pearls of Wisdom -- E.G. Craig's ©¿bermarionette and E. Decroux's "actor made of wood" -- Triptych -- Everything Weighs: Wrestling with an Invisible Angel -- The Mask in Actor Training: Copeau to Decroux -- The Face in Corporeal Mime: From Plaster Death Mask to Living Actor's Visage -- L'Homme de Sport: Sport, Statuary and the Recovery of the Body in Corporeal Mime. |
| Abstract | "In this series of essays, Thomas Leabhart presents a thorough overview and analysis of the roots of Etienne Decroux's artistic genealogy. After four years' apprenticeship with Decroux, Thomas Leabhart began to research and discover how forebears and contemporaries might have influenced Decroux's project. Decades of digging revealed striking correspondences that often led to adjacent fields--art history, philosophy, and anthropology, forays wherein Leabhart's appreciation of Decroux and his "kinsfolk," who themselves transgressed traditional frontiers, increased. The following essays, composed over a thirty-year period, find a common source in a darkened Prague cinema where people gasped at a wooden doll's sudden reversal of fortune. These essays: investigate the source of that astonishment; continue his examination of Decroux's "family tree"; consider how Copeau's and Decroux's keen observation of animal movement influenced their actor training; record the challenging and paradoxical improvisations chez Decroux; and recall Decroux's debt to sculpture, poster art, sport, and masks. These essays will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners in theatre and performance studies"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Leabhart, Thomas. Copeau/Decroux, Irving/Crai First Edition. London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022 9781032071817 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021045897 |
| ISBN | 9781003205852 (eBook) |
| ISBN | (Hardback) |
| ISBN | (Paperback) |
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