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Author Orenstein, Claudia

Title Reading the Puppet Stage Reflections on the Dramaturgy of Performing Objects
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (189 p.)
Contents Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- My journey to puppetry -- Notes -- 1. A Puppet Being and a Puppet Doing -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 2. The Dramaturgy is in the Object -- Stop and enjoy the puppets -- Playing with expectations -- Abstraction and structure -- Material invitations -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 3. The Image Aspect of the Puppet -- Puppets and picture storytelling -- Performing Japanese screens -- Contemporary creative explorations -- Toy theatre -- Banners and cranks
Movement in image-imbued puppetry -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 4. Humans and Objects -- Pilgrimage puppets -- Other models of encounter -- Puppets to puppeteers -- Diverse puppet and human interconnections in puppetry traditions -- Visibilities and presence -- Racial and other identities on the puppet stage -- Object and subject -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 5. Notes on Sounds and Words -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Conclusion: Choices We Made -- Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape -- Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi -- Dante's Inferno -- Production Credits -- Works Cited
A Selective and Selectively Annotated Puppetry Bibliography -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Puppet theater.
puppetry (performing art)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000918427
1000918424