Jacques Lecoq and the British Theatre

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.

Franc Chamberlain is Senior Lecturer in Performance Studies at University College Northampton. He is performer, director and writer. Ralph Yarrow is Senior Lecturer at the University of East Anglia where he teaches drama, European literature and French language. He has directed and performed in India and Britain, and in English, French and German; his writings include adaptations for the stage. He writes on the theory and practice of improvisation, on contemporary literary and dramatic theory, on consciousness and aesthetics, and now on Indian theatre. His directing covers Kokoschka, Jarry Rozewicz, Churchill, Daniels, Pinter and Vinaver. _

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;