{"product_id":"the-storytellers-shadows-live-acted-shadow-plays-for-today-9780648175698","title":"The Storyteller's Shadows: Live-acted shadow plays for today","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Bill Reed\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Reed Independent\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Reed Independent\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe live-acted shadow play of today uses live actors to evoke fantasy combined with realism to illustrate a fully-rounded play narrated by a storyteller sitting in full audience view.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is not a puppet show. It does not demand actors contort themselves into amazing shapes like trees of elephants. It is a play-behind that theatrically lies in the unfurrowed field between mime and the theatre we conventionally know today. It has hardly, if ever, been attempted in a full play's setting until now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe modern live-acted shadow play can be seen (at least conceptually) to need two directors working in unison - one to conduct how the shadow play portion of the performance can be welded into an amusing and poetic distillation of the storyteller's tale; the other to take care of the overall dramatic interaction between the storyteller and the shadow play behind him or her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere are 14 pioneering live-acted shadow plays especially written for wholesale professional stage production, or for 'picking-and-choosing' by workshoppers and educators. Three of them are world classics by Gogol, Morton and Runyon especially adapted by Bill Reed; the others are of his own making. Each contains probably a deliberate over-fullness of shadow-play directions, but only to give the director the widest choice of possibilities to get his shadow play to keep pace with the story, even if it's not really practical to wholly \u003cem\u003ekeep\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eup\u003c\/em\u003e with every narrative twist and turn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat each play has in common are elements of the fantastical and the magical threading through the down-to-earth, a blending that only the shadow play can evoke in any sort of encompassing harmony.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn its dynamic interplay of shadow acting and voice, the live-acted shadow play of today almost represents a new form of theatrical genre.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46486506733719,"sku":"9780648175698","price":2484.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780648175698.jpg?v=1766330820","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-storytellers-shadows-live-acted-shadow-plays-for-today-9780648175698","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}