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50 Hand Puppet Techniques: Hidden Secrets and Tricks Revealed

by Chad Williams

A practical toolkit for hand puppetry

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A practical toolkit for hand puppetry

Chad Williams’s manual organizes 50 hand-puppet techniques, drawing on European, Chinese, and modern approaches. Its subject is the craft of making a puppet appear to breathe, think, walk, and express emotion, with the material presented as skills to learn through play. Williams also describes developing a system from these traditions and teaching it to a range of learners. The book’s scope is hands-on and specific: it focuses on technique for bringing a hand puppet’s movement and expression to life.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • People learning or teaching hand-puppet performance
  • Actors, puppeteers, and students interested in practical technique
  • Parents and teachers seeking activities centered on puppetry

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Hand-puppet techniqueMovement and expressionPuppetry traditionsLearning through play

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Book overview

A Master Class in Puppetry


Teachers, parents, actors and students can now learn 50 professional puppetry techniques from a hand puppet master. Learn ancient puppet secrets and skills while playing and having fun!

Your puppet will breathe, think, walk, emote and much more after reading this fun and easy to understand manual on hand puppet technique.

Puppeteer Chad Williams has performed thousands of hand puppet shows and studied under some of the most prestigious names in American puppetry. Combining techniques from European, Chinese and Modern hand puppet styles, he developed his own system and has taught it to actors, puppeteers, teachers, parents and others at universities and international festivals.
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