Puppetry: a Reader in Theatre Practice

Name: Puppetry: a Reader in Theatre Practice
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ISBN: 9780230232730

ISBN-10: 0230232736

ISBN-13: 9780230232730

Edition: 2012

Authors: Penny Francis

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List price: $46.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 12/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.45" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Series Editor's Preface


List of Illustrations


Introduction



Approach


Puppetry, the art and the act


'Puppet theatre' and a 'theatre with puppets'


The puppet: animated figure and object


The animated object


The puppeteer



Related Arts


Masks


Automata


Ventriloquism



Techniques


Rod and string marionettes


Nether-rods


Glove or hand puppets


Shadows and silhouettes


Humanettes


Toy or paper theatre


Model Theatre


'Black Light' and 'Black Theatre'


'Tabletop', 'Bunraku-style' or 'rear-rod'



In Performance


Writing


Directing puppets


Design and making


Street theatre


Stages and other playing spaces


Lighting design


Sound design


Puppeteer and actor



Dramaturgy


Puppet production scripts


Playscripts for children


Devised and mixed media productions



Aesthetics


On the marionette theatre


Puppetry aesthetics at the start of the twenty-first century


On Bunraku


Notes on puppet primitives and the future of an illusion


The use of puppetry and the theatre of objects in the performing arts of today



History


Pre-theatre


The early puppet 'show'


The Middle Ages


Puppets in Commedia dell' Arte


The beginning of recognition


Puppets and opera


A growth industry


Modernism and a new language


Soviet riches


A distinct theatre art


The contemporary revival


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index