Volume 2 No. 1

WINTER 2025

TABLE OF CONTENTS

From the Editor

Claudia Orenstein

ARTICLES

Animism and Performing Objects in the Processions of Muharram

Salma Mohseni Ardehali

Women Karagöz Puppeteers in Turkey: Ambiguous Alliances within a Patriarchal Playing Field

Deniz Başar

FOCUS SECTION

PUPPETRY AND WAR: CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES FROM UKRAINE

Notes from the Section Editors: Puppetry and War – Contemporary Perspectives from Ukraine

Matt Smith and Nataliia Borodina

Puppetry in the Face of War: A Study of the Odesa Puppet Theatre Project

Matt Smith, Tamara Rozova, Nataliia Borodina, and Tetyana Ovcharenko

Ukrainian Resistance Through the Nativity Puppet Theatre Vertep: Exposure of Russian Aggression in the Images of Moskal and Herod

Tetiana Zinovieva

Ukrainian Puppet Theatre with Children and Adolescents During the War

Sofiia Rosa-Laverentii

REFLECTION:
The Topic of the Holocaust and Puppetry in the Ukrainian Context: Discussion of Kaddish Memorial Prayer, February 2023

Nataliia Borodina

REPORTS

Opening Doors to Tradition: The Osaka Bunraku Workshop as a Model for Engagement 

Seiko Shimura and Robin Ruizendaal

Wonderland Puppet Theater Symposium

Rahul Koonathara

Wayang, Ecology and the Sacred Symposium

Rahul Koonathara

A Journey Through Puppetry in Africa

Fedelis Kyalo

BOOK REVIEWS

Object Performance in the Black Atlantic: The United States. By Paulette Richards

Keith Byron Kirk

Reading the Puppet Stage: Reflections on the Dramaturgy of Performing Objects. By Claudia Orenstein

Lawrence Switzky

PERFORMANCE REVIEWS

Human. Written and directed by Nehprii Amenii

Cheyenne Bryant

Song of the North. Created and directed by Hamid Rahmanian

Marzieh Ashrafian

Review Board

Cariad Astles (The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama). Matthew Cohen (University of Connecticut, Storrs), Kathy Foley (University of California, Santa Cruz), Kamil Kopania (Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art), Livija Kroflin, (Josip Juraj Strossmayer University), Dassia N. Posner (Northwestern University), Daniel Stolfi (Brunel University of London), Meltem Turkoz (Isik University, Istanbul)