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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.
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction, Franc Chamberlain, Ralph Yarrow; Chapter 2 : Jacques Lecoq, Modern Mime and the Zero Body. A Pedagogy for the Creative Actor., Simon Murray; Chapter 3 The Well of Possibilities: Theoretical and Practical Uses of Lecoq'S Teaching, Bim Mason; Chapter 4 The Theatre Which does not Exist: Neutrality to Interculturalism, John Martin; Chapter 5 The Masks of Jacques Lecoq, John Wright; Chapter 6 "Amusez-Vous, Merde!": The Effect of Philippe Gaulier's Teaching on My Work as an Actor and Writer, Victoria Worsley; Chapter 7 Jos Houben: Understanding the Neutral Mask, Anthony Shrubsall; Chapter 8 Afterword, Ralph Yarrow; Chapter 9 Lecoq Talk, David Gaines;
