Eleanor Margolies is an independent scholar and Research Associate of the Centre for Research into Objects and Puppets in Performance (CROPP) at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She is also a documenter for the Object Theatre Network at Nottingham Trent University. Eleanor works in theatre as a designer and director of puppetry, and founded Puppet Notebook, editing it until 2012.

• AcknowledgementsSeries Editor's Preface1. Introduction2. The Object in Actor Training and Rehearsal3. Improvising with Stuff4. An Abundance of Little Objects5. Other Realities6. Inside the Prop Workshop7. Consumables and Breakaways8. A Scenographic Approach to the Object9. Object Theatre10. Props without Actors11. The Props Cupboard12. ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex.

Eleanor Margolies is an independent scholar and Research Associate of the Centre for Research into Objects and Puppets in Performance (CROPP) at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She is also a documenter for the Object Theatre Network at Nottingham Trent University. Eleanor works in theatre as a designer and director of puppetry, and founded Puppet Notebook, editing it until 2012.

• AcknowledgementsSeries Editor's Preface1. Introduction2. The Object in Actor Training and Rehearsal3. Improvising with Stuff4. An Abundance of Little Objects5. Other Realities6. Inside the Prop Workshop7. Consumables and Breakaways8. A Scenographic Approach to the Object9. Object Theatre10. Props without Actors11. The Props Cupboard12. ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex.

Eleanor Margolies is an independent scholar and Research Associate of the Centre for Research into Objects and Puppets in Performance (CROPP) at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She is also a documenter for the Object Theatre Network at Nottingham Trent University. Eleanor works in theatre as a designer and director of puppetry, and founded Puppet Notebook, editing it until 2012.

• AcknowledgementsSeries Editor's Preface1. Introduction2. The Object in Actor Training and Rehearsal3. Improvising with Stuff4. An Abundance of Little Objects5. Other Realities6. Inside the Prop Workshop7. Consumables and Breakaways8. A Scenographic Approach to the Object9. Object Theatre10. Props without Actors11. The Props Cupboard12. ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex.