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Take a truly magical mystery tour with this sparkling compendium of magic and trickery from medieval thaumaturgies to 20th-century showmen. Featuring hundreds of rarely seen vintage posters, photographs, handbills, and engravings, The Magic Book follows this special performing art from the 1400s to the 1950s.

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An acclaimed ventriloquist shares secret tricks of the trade, showing how to cultivate a variety of voices and offering helpful suggestions for putting an act together, developing material, handling bookings, and more.

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Capture between its covers a selection from festivals past and the contributors will be well known to Australians. The works cross a wide range of genres: poems, stories, essays, memoirs, interviews, song lyrics and recipes.

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A work by the author of sketches such as "Hanz and Franz," and "The Subliminal Man".

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Lessons in life from the fabulous, fearless, and phenomenal world of drag.

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Costumes designed and made for devised or physical drama, for contemporary circus or for dance, differ radically from the more traditional costume work produced for naturalistic performance.

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Te Matatini (the many faces) is the world's largest celebration of contemporary Maori performing arts - the Olympics of kapa haka. This national kapa haka festival is held in Aotearoa New Zealand every two years. In 2022, Te Matatini celebrates its fiftieth year, and this book (alongside an album and web series) honours the festival.

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Each Christmas entire families in the UK troop off to see, what one could almost say is 'the obligatory', annual entertainment, known as Pantomime. It is a traditional, seasonal way of life for the British envied the world over, and one which only the British seem to understand!

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A bullfight is a dramatic spectacle in which a lone man before a crowd faces potential death and the bull a certain death. This step-by-step illustrated guide explains exactly what is happening, and why, at each stage and with each move, in that 15 minute encounter in the arena.

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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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"Making and Manipulating Marionettes" is a comprehensive guide to the design, construction and control of string puppets, a craft and performance art that has fascinated audiences for over two thousand years.

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Mime the Gap: Techniques in Mime and Movement explores the physicality of movement in storytelling, offering new ideas about acting and performance, whilst encouraging a contemporary resurgence of this traditional performance art.

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Reveals a world where a suitcase can comment on politics and a marionette can play Faust. This work is a practical exploration of the use of puppets and objects, and how they are used with light, shadows and sound in performance.

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- The nature and heritage of puppet theatre - Step-by-step instructions for making glove and hand puppets, rod puppets, marionettes and shadow puppets - Control and manipulation of all these types of puppet - Staging principles, stage and scenery design and construction methods - Principles of lighting and sound, and their equipment and techniques - The organisation and development of a show

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A guide to the design, construction and manipulation and presentation of shadow puppets, considered by many to be the oldest puppet theatre tradition. This work explains traditional shadow play techniques, together with modern materials and methods and recent explorations into theatre of shadows. It also includes photographs.

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Daredevils and scantily clad starlets, fearless animal trainers and startling "freaks": This behind-the-scenes look at the American circus brings together original posters and lithographs as well as remarkable circus photography to explore the glamour and the grit of what was once the largest showbiz industry on earth.

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An authoritative compendium on sword swallowing, featuring historical biographies, expert insights, rare photos, and behind-the-scenes stories from contemporary sword swallowers.

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Introduces the theatre puppets from major Asian traditions, taking the reader on a journey through hundreds of years of craftsmanship and creativity in nearly 350 photographs. This illustrated book is of interest to audiences with an interest in the Asian arts, as well as to the general reader.

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