The Routledge companion to puppetry and material performance / edited by Dassia N. Posner, Claudia Orenstein, and John Bell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Posner, Dassia N.

Orenstein, Claudia

Bell, John, 1951-

Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Puppet theater.

Puppet theater--History.

History.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 351 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Companion to puppetry and material performance

Puppetry and material performance

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2014.

Summary:

"As an art form, puppetry has enjoyed a significant expansion over the past twenty years. This can be seen both in terms of its popularity in mainstream theatre and in the amount of attention that it now receives from an academic audience. This increased presence in the practical and theoretical realms is also underlined by a diversification in the definition of puppetry itself, with the term now being used to cover everything from found or traditional 'performing objects' to super high-tech projections and constructions"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Dassia N. Posner, Claudia Orenstein, and John Bell

Part I: Theory and practice / edited and introduced by John Bell

Section I: Theoretical approaches to the puppet. The death of "the puppet"? / Margaret Williams

The co-presence and ontological ambiguity of the puppet / Paul Piris

Playing with the eternal uncanny: the persistent life of lifeless objects / John Bell

Section II: Perspectives from practitioners. Visual dramaturgy: some thoughts for puppet theatre-makers / Eric Bass

Puppetry, authorship, and the Ur-narrative / Basil Jones

Petrushka's voice / Alexander Gref and Elena Slonimskaya

"Clouds are made of white!": the intersection of live art and puppetry as an approach to postdramatic children's theatre / Rike Reiniger

Movement is consciousness / Kate Brehm

The eye of light: the tension of image and object in shadow theatre and beyond / Stephen Kaplin

The third thing / Jim Lasko

Post-decivilization efforts in the nonsense suburb of art / Peter Schumann.

Part II: New dialogues with history and tradition / edited and introduced by Claudia Orenstein

Section III: Revisiting history. Making a troublemaker: Charlotte Charke's proto-feminist Punch / Amber West

Life-death and disobedient obedience: Russian modernist redefinitions of the puppet / Dassia N. Posner

The Saracen of Opera dei Pupi: a study of race, representation, and identity / Lisa Morse

Puppet think: the implication of Japanese ritual puppetry for thinking through puppetry performances / Jane Marie Law

Relating to the cross: a puppet perspective on the Holy Week ceremonies of the Regularis Concordia / Debra Hilborn

Section IV: Negotiating tradition. Traditional and post-traditional wayang kulit in Java today / Matthew Isaac Cohen

Korean puppetry and heritage: Hyundai Puppet Theatre and Creative Group NONI translating tradition / Kathy Foley

Forging new paths for Kerala's tolpavakoothu leather shadow puppetry tradition / Claudia Orenstein

Integration of puppetry tradition into contemporary theatre: the reinvigoration of the vertep puppet nativity play after communism in Eastern Europe / Ida Hledíková

Part III: Contemporary investigations and hybridizations / edited and introduced by Dassia N. Posner

Section V: Material performances in contemporary theatre. From props to prosopopeia: making After Cardenio / Jane Taylor

"A total spectacle but a divided one": redefining character in Handspring Puppet Company's Or you could kiss me / Dawn Tracey Brandes

Reading a puppet show: understanding the three-dimensional narrative / Robert Smythe

Notes on new model theatres / Mark J. Sussman

Section VI: New directions and hybrid forms. From puppet to robot: technology and the human in Japanese theatre / Cody Poulton

Unholy alliances and harmonious hybrids: new fusions in puppetry and animation / Colette Searls

Programming play: puppets, robots, and engineering / Elizabeth Ann Jochum and Todd Murphey

Return to the mound: animating infinite potentia in clay, food, and compost / Eleanor Margolies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Routledge companion to puppetry and material performance.

ISBN:

9780415705400

0415705401

1315850117

9781315850115

OCLC:

868199756

Publisher Number:

99959302775