Puppet Theater: Changes in the Perception

Abstract

This research paper investigates possible changes in the perception within puppet theater which have a twofold aspect. On the one hand, and in order to offer a cross-disciplinary approach to the subject, puppet figure is explored within the sociological study on objects as theorized by Bruno Latour and the anthropological study on things by Tim Inglod. The puppet figure will arise as a thing in life which influences the artistic process equally as the artist. On the other hand, the notion of intermediality is employed in order to not only place the puppet theater within contemporary theater-theoretical discourse but to suggest that the intermedial lies in the core of this art form, enhanced by the emergence of the artist’s perception of the puppet as a thing.