La narratrice, abandonnée à sa naissance à la porte d'un couvent, vagabondera au fil des ans d'une place à l'autre, à travers la France. C'est comme si elle n'avait pas de vie propre, mais elle participe intensément à celle des autres et aux ...

Mêlant anecdotes et réflexions, Michel Poletti, marionnettiste, comédien, auteur et metteur en scène, créateur du Théâtre Antonin Artaud et du Festival International de Marionnettes de Lugano, raconte les péripéties du retour des marionnettes par ...

There has been an enormous revival of interest in Commedia dell'arte. And it remians a central part of many drama school courses. In Commedia dell'arte in the Twentieth Century John Rublin first examines the orgins of this vital theatrical form ...

Douglas Clayton examines the tradition of commedia dell'arte as the Russian modernists inherited it, from its origins in Italian street theatre through its various transformations: in Italy (Gozzi and Goldini's plays); in France (the development ...

A profile of the authors life as a famous Soviet puppeteer and puppet theatre director. He describes childhood impressions, writes of earlier professions as artist and actor, and finally about his personal experiences with puppetry which helped ...

The first comparative study in English of all aspects of puppetry in nineteenth-century Europe.

Puppets of Nostalgia is the first major work in any Western language to examine the ritual origins and religious dimensions of puppetry in Japan. In a lucid and engaging style accessible to the general reader, Jane Marie Law describes the "life ...