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Étienne Decroux to the Théâtre de l'Ange Fou: A Legacy of Corporeal Mime

Étienne Decroux to the Théâtre de l'Ange Fou: A Legacy of Corporeal Mime

Soum, Corinne
Steinberg, Natasha

Paperback

Series: Theatre Makers

Acting & AuditioningTheater HistoryTechnical Theater

PREORDER - Expected ship date December 10, 2026

ISBN10: 1350468401
ISBN13: 9781350468405
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: Dec 10 2026
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.11
Height: 1.11 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book affords a rare first-hand insight into the dramaturgy, technique and aesthetic of the father of modern mime from a pupil/practitioner perspective and thereby offers a better understanding of much 20th century physical theatre and its place todayin general.

In this book, we are given unprecedented access to working with the father of modern mime Étienne Decroux. Through the first-hand experience of his students and assistants Corinne Soum and her partner Steven Wasson, she offers insights into their time working alongside Decroux by analysing his work, his repertoire, his multiple approaches to improvisation, his way of creating and directing, to their promise to him to continue his legacy-a legacy that has now been in existence for over 40 years.

We see that promise and that legacy in practice, from Corinne Soum's and Steven Wasson's teaching at Decroux's school, living in the house of Etienne and Suzanne Decroux, sharing their lives, and then by founding their own schools in Paris, London, and today in the U.S.A with The White Church Theatre Project. Their experience with Decroux led Corinne and Steven to creating the company the Théâtre de l'Ange Fou developing their own style and artistic world, performing throughout Europe, North and South America, the Middle East, Japan and India, and to the major reconstruction of part of Decroux's repertoire.

Supplementing Corinne Soum's own first-hand experiences is a contributed essay by Steven Wasson, as well as an interview by them with Marcel Marceau on his encounter and studies with the father of modern mime, a foreword by actor/author and director Simon Callow and a contextual introduction by Professor George Mascarenhas also helps situate Decroux and corporeal mime in the wider theatre landscape of the 20th century.

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