Authors: F. Chamberlain, Ralph Yarrow (Editor), Franc Chamberlain
ISBN-13: 9780415270243, ISBN-10: 0415270243
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: November 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)
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.
Introduction to the Series | ||
List of Plates | ||
Preface | ||
1 | Introduction | 1 |
2 | Tout Bouge: Jacques Lecoq, Modern Mime and the Zero Body. A Pedagogy for the Creative Actor | 17 |
3 | The Well of Possibilities: Theoretical and Practical Uses of Lecoq's Teaching | 45 |
4 | The Theatre Which Does Not Exist: Neutrality to Interculturalism | 57 |
5 | The Masks of Jacques Lecoq | 71 |
6 | "Amusez-Vous, Merde!": The Effect of Philippe Gaulier's Teaching on My Work as an Actor and Writer | 85 |
7 | Jos Houben: Understanding the Neutral Mask | 99 |
8 | Afterword | 111 |
9 | Lecoq Talk | 115 |
Notes on Contributors | 117 | |
Index | 119 |