Book Description
Societies around the world have their puppet traditions, and puppetry remains a vital theatrical art; yet puppetry has received little attention in the theoretical study of theatre. The present study reviews existing literature and, through synchronic observation and analysis of puppetry in all its manifestations, offers a new aesthetic theory and vocabulary for practitioners, critics, and audiences to utilize in creating, evaluating, viewing, and describing the age-old, ever-new art of the puppet.
About the Author
Playwright, performer, and director, STEVE TILLIS has worked professionally in the theatre since 1974.
Toward an Aesthetics of the Puppet: Puppetry as a Theatrical Art FROM THE PUBLISHER
Societies around the world have their puppet traditions, and puppetry remains a vital theatrical art; yet puppetry has received little attention in the theoretical study of theatre. The present study reviews existing literature and, through synchronic observation and analysis of puppetry in all its manifestations, offers a new aesthetic theory and vocabulary for practitioners, critics, and audiences to utilize in creating, evaluating, viewing, and describing the age-old, ever-new art of the puppet.
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Puppetry has received little attention in the theoretical study of theatre. Tillis reviews existing literature and, through observation and analysis of puppetry in all its manifestations, offers a new aesthetic theory and vocabulary for practitioners, critics, and audiences.
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