Engineers of Imagination

<p>Welfare State International are brilliant at making an audience of strangers into a community (Guardian) <p/><br>Since its foundation by John Fox in 1968 Welfare State International has developed a unique form of celebratory theatre that reaches popular audiences through remarkable combinations of archetypal and contemporary imagery. <p/>This handbook is a guide to the basic techniques of the company's work - the making of processions; large scale puppets and sculptures; fixed structures; fire and ice technology; shadow puppets; processional theatre and dance music - set in a context that explains the thinking behind the work and describes some past Welfare State International events. This is first and foremost a practical book rather than an academic treatise.</p>