DRAMA / Puppets & Puppetry

Paper · Semantic Scholar

English communication proficiency has become an essential competency in the increasingly interconnected global landscape, yet conventional pedagogical methods often fall short in fostering authentic, spontaneous, and confident oral expression among learners. Performing arts encompassing drama, role-play, storytelling, improvisation, readers' theatre, and puppetry offer a rich, experiential modality for developing En…

Reference · Wikidata

form of theatre or performance that involves the manipulation of puppets

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Puppetry is a form of theatre or performance that involves the manipulation of puppets, the inanimate objects, often resembling some type of human or animal figure, that are animated or manipulated by a human called a puppeteer. Such a performance is also known as a puppet production. The script for a puppet production is called a puppet play. Puppeteers use movements from hands and arms to control devices such as r…

Book · DOAB

Baroque Lorca: An Arcaist Playwright for the New Stage defines Federico García Lorca’s trajectory in the theater as a lifelong search for an audience. It studies a wide range of dramatic writings that Lorca created for the theater, in direct response to the conditions of his contemporary industry, and situates the theory and praxis of his theatrical reform in dialogue with other modernist renovators of the stage. Th…

Image · DPLA

Gail Haley, an author and illustrator of children's literature born in Charlotte, North Carolina, recounts her career during the early 1990s. In this twelfth of sixteen interviews, Ms. Haley continues the conversation from her eleventh interview about her work on Mountain Jack Tales (1992). Ms. Haley details several of the stories contained in the book, as well as popular motifs within each. She summarizes her view …