Engineers of the Imagination: Welfare State Handbook

Book Overview

"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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0413528006
• ISBN13: 9780413528001
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"