Two delightful books on object theatre

Gyula Molnár’s work is fundamentally about being human, about our relationships to each other as well as to objects. Architects, choreographers, anthropologists, artists, enthusiasts, researchers, performers, engineers, roboticists and object-orientated ontologists should all read this book.
It’s invigorating. It’s generous. It’s a joy to read.
— Sean Myatt, Nottingham Trent University

Object theatre by Gyula Molnár, translated by Alison Tunley.

A pioneer of object theatre, performer, director and teacher, Gyula Molnár has performed all over the world. He discusses his classic trio of short object theatre pieces, ‘Three Small Suicides’ and describes workshop exercises for discovering the performing life of objects.

Available from September 2026. Details coming soon.

 

Coming in 2027:

In search of object theatre by Christian Carrignon and Jean-Luc Mattéoli, translated by Eleanor Margolies.

Christian Carrignon begins with his childhood in the Paris suburbs, among the plastic profusion of the post-war consumer society and how he came to make object theatre with Théâtre de Cuisine. In alternating chapters, Jean-Luc Mattéoli discusses the history of object theatre and its relation to wider art movements.