Puppets, Masks, and Performing Objects

Foreword: Entertainment, Spectacle, Crime: Puppetry in the Year 2000......Page 8
Introduction: Puppets, Masks, and Performing Objects at the End of the Century......Page 12
A Puppet Tree:  A Model for the Field of Puppet Theatre......Page 25
Julie Taymor: From Jacques Lecoq to The Lion King......Page 33
What, At the End of This Century, Is the Situation of Puppets and Performing Objects?......Page 53
The End of Our Domestic Resurrection Circus: Bread and Puppet Theater and Counterculture Performance in the 1990s......Page 59
Performing the Intelligent Machine: Deception and Enchantment in the Life of the Automaton Chess Player......Page 78
Czech Puppet Theatre and Russian Folk Theatre......Page 94
Modicut Puppet Theatre: Modernism, Satire, and Yiddish Culture......Page 112
Articulations: The History of All Things......Page 132
If Gandhi Could Fly . . .: Dilemmas and Directions in Shadow Puppetry of India......Page 151
Rediscovering Mask Performance in Peru: Gustavo Boada, Maskmaker with Yuyachkani......Page 166
The Art of Puppetry in the Age of Media Production......Page 179
Biographies......Page 193
Index......Page 196