Bip in a Book,
written with Marcel Marceau
photographs by Steven Rothfeld
Publisher’s Weekly
This ingenious square volume makes brilliant use of both the great mime’s talents and the idea of the book as a physical object….For the uninitiated, this thoughtfully conceived volume is an ideal introduction to the art of mime at its finest; for Marceau’s followers, it is a must.
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About the Book
It was a great honor and a challenge to be asked to write a book with the great mime Marcel Marceau. Right away, I knew that we should create a wordless picture book. I came up with the idea of creating a book adaptation of Marcel’s classic “The Cage.” I created a storyboard for the book with pretty terrible stick figures. Luckily, Marcel was very good at seeing what I meant rather than what I had actually drawn. We met at his home outside of Paris to discuss the project and then a month later we shot the book in a Paris studio. Photographer Steven Rothfeld contributed the perfect lighting and camerawork to capture Marcel’s amazingly graceful movements and expressions.