Principles of Stage Combat Handbook

Punches, kicks and knockouts! Whips, swords and knives! Learn it all, from your first fall down a flight of stairs to your first stabbing. No, this isn't real-life murder and mayhem, but with "The Principles of Stage Combat Handbook" it will certainly seem like it. Learn to behead, beat and battle with the ease of a professional. Don't get murdered without it!

But it's all fun and games until someone puts an eye out: theater is fraught with natural hazards as actors simply fall off stages, down stairs and against furniture. We should not compound our problems by asking actors to engage in stage combat if we don't understand the disciplines required to insure the greatest possible degree of safety. This is why a book of this nature is a must in the hands of every college and high school director of theatre. The techniques in this book have been developed over decades to provide entertaining action WITH protection for the performers involved. Extensive step by step photo series depict each technique clearly.

Let's have excellent, exciting theatre with the greatest possible safety measures we can contrive. Break a leg, but do it safely!