- 200 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Drawing on thirty years of making theatre with objects, this field-defining book maps the terrain of applied puppetry. Through a range of case studies both personal and practical, Matt Smith offers a reflective and engaging study which provides makers, thinkers and students alike with a toolkit for thinking about and making puppetry in community settings. Through eight chapters, Smith muses on the nature of creativity, explores approaches to puppetry through ecology, and considers how puppets and objects affect the act of making and – in turn – how they affect those who make, use and experience them in performance. Along the way, Applied Puppetry offers practical exercises in theatre-making, demonstrates the political power of puppetry beyond borders, and interrogates the limitations and possibilities of puppetry and object theatre in local communities, volatile contexts and difficult circumstances.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on the Text
- Introduction
- 1 Objects speaking for themselves: Mapping the field of Applied Puppetry
- 2 Thinking with ecology: New paradigms in material performance
- 3 Thingness, puppethood and violence: The materiality of performing objects
- 4 Puppet power in intercultural practices: Communities, ethics and representation
- 5 Plastics talking about plastics: Marlsite projects and ecological puppetry
- 6 Puppetry in HMP Haslar IRC: Working with marginalized and vulnerable participants
- 7 Toy Theatres, Kamishibai and Puppet City:: Participatory ecologies
- 8 Talking to objects: Kinship and the more-than-human and envoi – : sharing spaces with objects: Listening, caves, ephemera, popularity, reciprocity and chimaeras
- Exercises
- References
- Copyright Page