Annette Bercut Lust is professor emerita at Dominican College where she teaches courses in beginning mime, theatre production, dramatic literature, and French language and literature. For her teaching and publication on the French School of Mime, she received the Palmes Académiques from the French government in 1973. An active producer and director, Lust produces the annual Bay Area Original One-Act Play and Solo Festival at Dominican College.

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: On the Meaning of Mime and Pantomime
Major Developments of the Art of Mime in the Occident and Orient
Exponents of Twentieth-Century Mime Schools and Movement Styles
Part One: Mime through the Ages
1 Mime, First Language and Art: Mime in Greece and Rome
2 Mimes and Jongleurs of the Middle Ages
3 Origins of the Commedia Dell'Arte and the Theatres de la Foire
4 Gaspard Deburau and the Pierrots of the Nineteenth Century
5 English Pantomime
6 Mime and Movement in German, Russian, and Italian Theatre
7 Exit Pierrot. Enter Georges Wague
Part Two: Twentieth-Century Mime
8 Etienne Decroux, Father of Corporeal Mime
9 Jean-Louis Barrault
10 Marcel Marceau
11 Jacques Lecoq
12 Mimes of Twentieth-Century Europe
13 Mime and Movement Theatre in North America
14 Women's Voices in Mime
15 Movement and Silence in Modern and Postmodern Verbal Theatre
16 Whither Mime?
Appendixes
A School and Centers for Movement Training
B Archives, Resource Centers, and Artist Directories; Periodicals and Publications; Library and Museum Collections; Pantomime and Mime Scripts and Bookshop Collections; Festivals
C Filmography
Works Consulted and Cited
Index
About the Author