Volume 1 No. 1

FALL 2023

TABLE OF CONTENTS

From the Editors

Claudia Orenstein

Kathy Foley

I Nyoman Sedana

ARTICLES

The Name Succession Investitures of the Youki Marionette Family—Interweaving the Old and the New in Edo String Puppetry

Mari Boyd

Puppet Matters: New Materialism and Ecocriticism in Contemporary Puppetry

Kathy Foley

Puppetry Power: Puppetry Doubling Techniques in Portraying Painful Past

Achinoam Aldouby

The Dissenting Paper in Zero-COVID China

Zhixuan Zhu

Modernism in Tholpavakoothu: Analyzing Contemporary Productions

Rahul Koonathara

FOCUS SECTION: PUPPETRY IN CONTEMPORARY BALI

Training in Contemporary Balinese Wayang

I Nyoman Sedana

Bhatara Kala: Sacred Myth in Balinese Wayang Parwa Shadow Puppetry

I Dewa Ketut Wicaksana
Ni Diah Purnamawati Dewa Ketut Wicaksandita

Surya Sewana in Balinese Wayang Wong Performance at Sanur Village Festival 2022

I Made Sidia

Cenk Blonk’s Balinese Shadow Puppetry During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Dru Hendro
I Made Maraja

Tutur Candra Bherawa: A New Balinese Theatre Work

I Gusti Putu Sudarta
I Gusti Made Darma Putra

Revitalizing Wayang Puppetry through Creative Lighting

I Ketut Sudiana

REPORTS

Wayang Workshop, Balimodule, Denpasar, Bali, May 2-7, 2023, UNIMA-USA and University of California, Santa Cruz

Karen Smith

Wayang and Puppetry Now: UNIMA Councillor Meeting Seminar. Institut Seni Indonesia

Cariad Astles

Portrait of the Puppeteer As Author, Second International PuppetPlays Conference: Writing Practices for Puppets in Western Europe (Seventeenth – Twenty-first Century)

Alissa Mello

BOOK REVIEWS

The Image of the Puppet in Italian Theater, Literature and Film. By Federico Pacchioni

Stefano Boselli

Women and Puppetry: Critical and Historical Investigations. Co-edited by Alissa Mello, Claudia Orenstein, and Cariad Astles

Jungmin Song

PERFORMANCE REVIEWS

9000 Paper Balloons. By Maiko Kikuchi and Spencer Lott. Director and Dramaturg Aya Ogawa

Zhixuan Zhu

The King’s Dream. Created and performed by Michael Schuster, music performed by Rachel Saul

Marsha Gildin

Review Board

Cariad Astles (Central School of Speech and Drama), Bradford Clark (Bowling Green State University), Matthew Cohen (University of Connecticut) John Emigh (Brown University, emeritus), Gayle Goodman (Psychologist, Honolulu, Hawai’i), Ron Jenkins (Wesleyan University), David Jortner (Baylor University), Arya Madhavan (University of Lincoln), Claudia Orenstein (Hunter College), Karen Smith (UNIMA International), Judith O’Hare (You and Me Puppets), Michael Schuster (Independent Artist, Honolulu, Hawai’i), Carol Sorgenfrei (UCLA, emerita), Marlene Pitkow (Independent Scholar, Santa Cruz, CA), Skye Strauss (Baylor University).