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Making (Almost) Instant Puppets

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This wonderful book is packed with a range of quick, inexpensive ways to make the main types of puppets using objects that are spare, scrap, recycled or easily accessible. With imagination and creative flair, it explains the principles and techniques that can transform a plastic bottle... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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This wonderful book is packed with a range of quick, inexpensive ways to make the main types of puppets using objects that are spare, scrap, recycled or easily accessible. Includes Hand puppets, Rod puppets, Marionettes, Shadow puppets.

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This wonderful book is packed with a range of quick, inexpensive ways to make the main types of puppets using objects that are spare, scrap, recycled or easily accessible. With imagination and creative flair, it explains the principles and techniques that can transform a plastic bottle into a hippopotamus hand puppet or a few cardboard rolls into a dancing marionette. Alongside the practical information, it also gives staging advice so that your puppets can perform as living and believable characters. This is truly a book that will bring the magical world of puppet theatre within reach of everyone, whatever their time or resource limits. AUTHOR: David Currell is widely recognized as a leading authority on puppet theatre. He has written extensively on puppets and puppet theatre. A UNESCO puppetry consultant, he was co-founder of the national Puppet Centre and was its chairperson for nearly twenty years. 437 illustrations

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780719843976

Publisher: The Crowood Press Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 24 June 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: The Crowood Press Ltd

Illustration: 437 Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 9.0mm

Width: 172.0mm

Height: 242.0mm

Weight: 326g

Pages: 128

About the Author

David Currell is widely recognized as a leading authority on puppet theatre. He has written extensively on puppets and puppet theatre. A UNESCO puppetry consultant, he was co-founder of the national Puppet Centre and was its chairperson for nearly twenty years.

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