Theatre-Rites

<p>Theatre-Rites are regarded as pioneers in the field of object-led and site-specific performance creating ground-breaking work for family audiences since 1995. This book marks the company’s 25th anniversary offering the first in-depth exploration of artistic director Sue Buckmaster’s visionary practice in which anything can be animated. </p><p>This book draws on original research including five years of in-depth interviews between its authors images from Theatre-Rites’ archive and Buckmaster’s private collection detailed observations from the company’s professional training workshops and personal reflections on past productions. A timely and compelling advocacy for the importance of high-quality experimental arts provision for young audiences is made distilling learning from decades of the company’s professional activities to motivate and empower the next generation of object-led theatre-makers.</p><p>Theatre-Rites: Animating Puppets Objects and Sites is an invaluable resource for any puppeteer actor dancer visual artist poet or student interested in expanding their understanding of how to incorporate puppetry and/or symbolic objects as metaphors in their work.</p>