From: NANCYSTAUB-AT-aol.com
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 12:09:19 EST
Subject: PUPT: recent publications


The February 2004 issue of American Theatre 21.2 features "Puppet Power,'' 
several articles about puppet theatre. www.tcg.org  The cover is a photo of a 
new acquisition to the Center for Puppetry Arts collection, a devil donated by 
Jan Kostroun for the Fairy Tale House in the Czech Republic.

Two others were reviewed in The Asian Theatre Journal 21.1 (Spring 2004) by 
Cobina Gillitt, listed as an independent scholar. She highly recommended Puppet 
Theater in Contemporary Indonesia: New Approaches to Performance Events Ed. 
Jan Mrazek, Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia, no. 50. Ann Arbor: 
Centers for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan, 2002. 392 
pp, cloth $70; paper $35.
The reviewer stated that the editor wanted to stimulate readers to see and 
think about Indonesian shadow puppetry in new ways rather than adhere to the 
limited authoritative, self-referring body of "old scholarship."The focus is on 
experiencing wayang as a whole performance event through direct experience of 
the writer." Sounds great.

The other reviewed is Mediums, Puppets, and the Human Actor in the Theatres 
of the East. By Poh Sim Plowright. Mellen Studies in Puppetry vol 4. Lewiston, 
NY: Mellen Press, 2002. 262 pp. $109.95. Ms Gillitt was less enthusiastic 
about this book that deals with the origins of puppetry in magic. She stated that 
"Poh Sim Plowright deftly illustrates just the kind of scholarship Mrazek 
hopes to abandon. "Plowright appears to be arguing for a spiritual origin of all 
theatres of the East."  Sounds interesting.

by the way, The Asian Theatre Journal 18.1 (Spring 2001) had several puppet 
articles. ATJ 19.2 (Fall 2002) contains a bibliography of past issues. There 
have been several articles, plays and reviews of puppetry included since the 
first issue.

Best wishes.

Nancy Lohman Staub


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