| ISBN13: | 9781350279407 |
| ISBN10: | 1350279404 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | pages |
| Size: | 234x156 mm |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 20 bw |
| 700 |
Applied Puppetry
GBP 85.00
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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.
Notes on the text
Introduction: My Personal Context, Hands on, Broken Puppets, Objects with Objectives, Definitions, Power and Theories, Borders, Psychogeography, Waste, Ecology, Scale, Anthropomorphism and Materialism.
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 Marginalised and Vulnerable Participants
7. Participatory Ecologies: Toy Theatres, Kamishibai and Puppet City
8. Talking to Roots: Kinship with the More than Human Envoi - Sharing Spaces with Objects: Listening, Caves, Ephemera, Popularity, Reciprocity and Chimaeras
Exercises
Notes
References
Index
