The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance

Its 28 chapters aim to advance the study of the puppet not only as atheatrical object but also as a vibrant artistic and scholarly discipline.This Companion looks at puppetry and material performance from six perspectives: theoreticalapproaches to the puppet, perspectives from practitioners, revisiting history, negotiating tradition,material performances in contemporary theatre, and hybrid forms. The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance offers a wide-ranging perspective on how scholars and artists are currently re-evaluating the theoretical, historical,and theatrical significance of performance that embraces the agency of inanimate objects.This book proposes a collaborative, responsive model for broader artistic engagement in andwith the material world. Its wide range of topics, whichspan 15 countries over five continents, encompasses:• visual dramaturgy• theatrical juxtapositions of robots and humans• contemporary transformations of Indonesian wayang kulit• Japanese ritual body substitutes• recent European productions featuring toys, clay, and food.The book features newly commissioned essays by leading scholars such as Matthew Isaa

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It will be an indispensable resource for material performance studies."-- Andrew Sofer (Boston College) "This Companion gives platform to the thinkers of our day in their search for an articulation to our truly unruly art form. It is an essential book."-- Steve Tillis (St. It is impossible to deny the ever-growing popularity of puppetry, and this book offers a much-needed overview and provides an excellent springboard for further study and research. Adding to this scholarship, Bell (Univ. Comprehensive in its reach, the book includes investigations into the traditional, modern and hybrid manifesta

A theatre historian, dramaturg, and puppeteer, she is the author of numerous articles and chapters on Russian theatre, the history of directing, and puppetry and is Peer-Review Editor for Puppetry International. John Bell is Director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry and Associate Professor of Dramatic Arts at the University of Connecticut. . Posner is Assistant Professor of Theatre at Northwe