Figurations of Evil in Contemporary Puppet Theatre Dramaturgy
Journal: HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
Year: 2022

Puppets’ fictitious nature allows them to figure raw themes in all their concreteness on stage. In a close alternation of tragic and comic tones, contemporary puppet theatre faces the darkest fantasies appealing to traditional techniques and post-dramatic staging. Four different plays from the second half of the twentieth century and the early 2000s of the French and Italian repertoires reveal how the scenic space of the puppet booth may become a landscape inhabited by obscure figures. Ceronetti