Puppetry: A Reader in Theatre Practice
FRANCIS, Penny
2012
Autor(es): FRANCIS, Penny
Título: Puppetry: A Reader in Theatre Practice
Publicação: Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
ISBN: 978-0-230-23273-0
Assunto(s):
Teatro de Marionetas -- Manuais
Teatro de Marionetas -- História -- Construção -- Manipulação -- Teoria -- Manuais
Índice | Table of Contents | Table des Matières
Acknowledgements - ix
Series Editor’s Preface - xiii
List of Illustrations - xiv
Introduction - 1
1. Approach - 4
Puppetry, the art and the act - 5
‘Puppet theatre’ and a ‘theatre with puppets’ - 10
The puppet: animated figure and object - 13
The animated object - 18
The puppeteer - 24
2. Related Arts - 35
Masks - 35
Automata - 39
Ventriloquism - 46
3. Techniques - 49
Rod and string marionettes - 50
Nether-rods - 54
Glove or hand puppets - 58
Shadows and silhouettes - 62
Humanettes - 67
Toy or paper theatre - 68
Model Theatre - 69
‘Black Light’ and ‘Black Theatre’ - 69
‘Tabletop’, ‘Bunraku-style’ or ‘rear-rod’ - 70
4. In Performance - 75
Writing - 77
Directing puppets - 82
Design and making - 85
Street theatre - 87
Stages and other playing spaces - 89
Lighting design - 89
Sound design - 91
Puppeteer and actor - 91
5. Dramaturgy - 97
Puppet production scripts - 97
Playscripts for children - 109
Devised and mixed media productions - 114
6. Aesthetics - 121
On the marionette theatre - 121
Puppetry aesthetics at the start of the twenty-first century - 126
On Bunraku - 133
Notes on puppet primitives and the future of an illusion - 136
The use of puppetry and the theatre of objects in the performing arts of today - 141
7. History - 145
Pre-theatre - 146
The early puppet ‘show’ - 149
The Middle Ages - 150
Puppets in Commedia dell’Arte - 153
The beginning of recognition - 156
Puppets and opera - 157
A growth industry - 160
Modernism and a new language - 166
Soviet riches - 169
A distinct theatre art - 173
The contemporary revival - 175
Conclusion - 178
Bibliography - 179
Index - 187
Autor(es): FRANCIS, Penny
Título: Puppetry: A Reader in Theatre Practice
Publicação: Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
ISBN: 978-0-230-23273-0
Assunto(s):
Teatro de Marionetas -- Manuais
Teatro de Marionetas -- História -- Construção -- Manipulação -- Teoria -- Manuais
Índice | Table of Contents | Table des Matières
Acknowledgements - ix
Series Editor’s Preface - xiii
List of Illustrations - xiv
Introduction - 1
1. Approach - 4
Puppetry, the art and the act - 5
‘Puppet theatre’ and a ‘theatre with puppets’ - 10
The puppet: animated figure and object - 13
The animated object - 18
The puppeteer - 24
2. Related Arts - 35
Masks - 35
Automata - 39
Ventriloquism - 46
3. Techniques - 49
Rod and string marionettes - 50
Nether-rods - 54
Glove or hand puppets - 58
Shadows and silhouettes - 62
Humanettes - 67
Toy or paper theatre - 68
Model Theatre - 69
‘Black Light’ and ‘Black Theatre’ - 69
‘Tabletop’, ‘Bunraku-style’ or ‘rear-rod’ - 70
4. In Performance - 75
Writing - 77
Directing puppets - 82
Design and making - 85
Street theatre - 87
Stages and other playing spaces - 89
Lighting design - 89
Sound design - 91
Puppeteer and actor - 91
5. Dramaturgy - 97
Puppet production scripts - 97
Playscripts for children - 109
Devised and mixed media productions - 114
6. Aesthetics - 121
On the marionette theatre - 121
Puppetry aesthetics at the start of the twenty-first century - 126
On Bunraku - 133
Notes on puppet primitives and the future of an illusion - 136
The use of puppetry and the theatre of objects in the performing arts of today - 141
7. History - 145
Pre-theatre - 146
The early puppet ‘show’ - 149
The Middle Ages - 150
Puppets in Commedia dell’Arte - 153
The beginning of recognition - 156
Puppets and opera - 157
A growth industry - 160
Modernism and a new language - 166
Soviet riches - 169
A distinct theatre art - 173
The contemporary revival - 175
Conclusion - 178
Bibliography - 179
Index - 187