Colin Winslow Bücher

Topics covered:Tools and materialsPainting and texturingArchitectural modelsPeople, trees and organic elementsMoving partsFurniture and dressings

Reveals a world where a suitcase can comment on politics and a marionette can play Faust. This work is a practical exploration of the use of puppets and objects, and how they are used with light, shadows and sound in performance.

This is a practical guide for people who find themselves involved in putting a pantomime on stage, particularly for those working on limited budgets in smaller venues. Readers can learn to understand your audience and their reactions, control the chaos backstage, find out the secret of pantomime magic and much more.

A guide to designing scenery of various kinds for a variety of stages. It takes you through the process of turning initial ideas and sketches into final sets that enhance the audience's understanding of the play. Photographs of stage sets are included, together with illustrations, stage plans, technical drawings, and models and colour renderings.

Theatre designers need to be proficient in an extraordinarily diverse range of skills to carry out their work. They are expected to be able to draw, both creatively and technically, to be able to use colour imaginatively, to make accurate scale models of their set designs, and to design costumes.

A must have addition to the bookshelves of all theatre and performing arts aficionados.

A practical guide to costume for devised and physical theatre, this title outlines the differences between designing for scripted and for devised work.