Volume 1 No. 2

SUMMER 2024

TABLE OF CONTENTS

From the Editor

Claudia Orenstein

ARTICLES

Pictures and Puppet Performance: Peter Schumann’s Bedsheet Paintings

John Bell

Mane Bernardo and Sarah Bianchi’s Acting Hands: Pantomime of Hands and Modern Puppet Theatre

Bettina Girotti

Anamorphosis: Puppetry, Animation, and Automation in William Kentridge

Mark Sanders

Founders of the Field

Nancy Lohman Staub

Bradford Clark

REPORTS

Women and Masks: Reflections on a Conference, a Project, and a Field

Felice Amato

Early European Puppetry Studies Conference. Yale University, Connecticut. October 13-14, 2023.

Claudia Orenstein

BOOK REVIEWS

The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo (1884-1947): The Paladins of France in America. By Jo Ann Cavallo.

Enza De Francisci

A Galaxy of Things: The Power of Puppets and Masks in Star Wars and Beyond. By Colette Searls.

​Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.

PERFORMANCE REVIEWS

Psychic Self Defense. Created, Written, Directed, and Designed by Normandy Sherwood. 

​Asya Gorovits

Wakka Wakka’s Animalia Trilogy: Animal R.I.O.T., The Immortal Jellyfish Girl, and Dead as a Dodo. By Gwendolyn Warnock and Kirjan Waage. Directed by Gwendolyn Warnock and Kirjan Waage.

​Jesse Njus

Dracula: Lucy’s Dream and A Dolls’ House by Yngvild Aspeli of Plexus Polaire.

Felice Amato

Adrift: A Medieval Wayward Folly. By Happenstance Theater. Co-Directed by Mark Jaster and Sabrina Mandell.

Tim Cusack

EXHIBITION REVIEWS

Stillness, Silence, and Shadows: Indonesian Wayang Exhibit at Yale.

Ron Jenkins

The Calling: The Transformative Power of African American Doll and Puppet Making Camila Bryce Laporte, curator and Phyllis May-Machunda, curatorial consultant

Kathy Foley

Review Board

Dawn Brandes (Fountain School of Performing Arts), Izabela Brochado (University of Brazilia), Kathy Foley (University of California, Santa Cruz), Gabriel Levine (York University), Aja Marneweck (University of Western Cape), Lawrence Switzky (University of Toronto).

Banner photo above: Dracula-Lucy’s Dream. Plexus Polaire and Puppentheater Halle (Photo: Jerzy Doroszkiewicz)