Jacques Lecoq and the British Theatre

This title brings together a collection of essays in English that focus on Lecoq's school of mime and physical theatre. The work of such highly successful Jacques Lecoq graduates as Theatre de Complicit? ("The Winter's Tale" with the Royal Shakespeare Company and "The Visit", "The Street of Crocodiles" and "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" with the Royal National Theatre) has brought Lecoq's work to the attention of mainstream critics and audiences in Britain. Yet "Complicit?" is just the tip of the iceberg. The contributors to this volume chart some of the diverse ways in which it has had an impact on our conceptions of mime, physical theatre, actor training, devising, street theatre and interculturalism.

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.