Blackwell UK
Eyes on Stalks
ISBN: 9780413761903
Format: Paperback
Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
John Fox is a prolific artist, print-maker, poet, designer, writer and also artistic director of Welfare State International, one of Britain's leading arts companies. Illustrated throughout with photographs and original drawings from the artist's sketchbook, this account brings to life the company's working practices over the last thirty years. With chapters on devising site-specific events, lantern parades and alternative naming and funeral ceremonies, this book is an inspiration for anyone interested in contemporary performance, art, rites of passage or theatre. More
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"Welfare State International are brilliant at making an audience of strangers into a community" Guardian Welfare State International, the inspirational theatre company founded in 1968 and based in Cumbria, creates and facilitates celebratory art and theatre, ranging from carnivals, lantern processions and rites of passage, to flags, banners and pyrotechnics. In a mixture of personal stories, clear instructions, poems and artists' sketches, Eyes on Stalks is a detailed and practical guide to their production techniques. It includes sections on caravans and street shows, community regeneration, comedy extravaganzas and alternative naming, betrothal and funeral ceremonies.
