Making Puppets Come Alive: How to Learn and Teach Hand Puppetry (Dover Craft Books)

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Unlike other performing arts, puppetry is most likely the only art form in which directing, acting, writing, designing, sculpture, and choreography are combined. In effect, the performer is creating an artistic entertainment so one can appeal to audiences of every age — in homes, in theaters, and in classrooms.
This lucid, easy-to-follow book used to be specifically conceived to teach beginners how to bring a hand puppet to life and how, with practice, to develop the skills needed to mount an amateur puppet show — complete with staging, costumes, and special effects. Award-winning puppeteers Larry Engler and Carol Fijan provide ingenious finger, wrist, and arm exercises that are an important for creating a full working range of puppet motions and emotions. They also cover the elements of good puppet theatrical technique: speech, voice use, and synchronization; stage deportment and interactions; improvisation, dramatic conflict, role characterization, and more.
Every detail is clearly explained and beautifully illustrated with photographs, specific chapters being devoted to using props, puppet voices and movements, the construction of simple stages and lighting effects, and a lot more. A splendid addition to the literature on this subject, Making Puppets Come Alive is “the most productive book to be had puppetry we now have seen.” — The Whole Kids Catalog.


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