Pantomime - A Practical Guide

A practical guide for the hundreds of people who find themselves involved in putting a pantomime on stage, and particularly for those working on limited budgets in smaller venues

The information in this book comes from working practitioners with varied experience of pantomime

It includes topics on ...

Understand your audience and their reactions
Solve the problems of directing and choreographing pantomime
Work with the children of the company
Understand the tricks of transformation of set and costume
Control the chaos backstage
Solve the dilemmas of pantomime props
Learn the secrets of pantomime magic
Create a spectacular effect with unspectacular resources
Send the audience out smiling and singing

'The sound practical advice in this book will help anyone succeed in turning the madness of Pantomime into magic' ~ Graeme Garden

160 pages + 144 b/w photographs