Puppet Cabaret: Visual Idioms, Performance Technologies and the Poetics of Czech Special Puppets in a European Context 1850–1950 : (From Artistic Automata through Trick and Variety Puppets, to Puppet Cabaret and Variety Show Clowns and Acrobats)

• Authors: Marie Jirásková , Pavel Jirásek
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article brings an analysis of the history and development of variety and trick puppets in the Czech lands between 1850 and 1950 together with a discussion of the extant artefacts, with a particular focus on the mechanics of these special puppets and their innovations during the Modernist decades in a European context. Variety and trick puppets were also significant components of the traditional marionettists’ productions and complement, and the article also considers the extant ephemera surrounding that tradition of performance.

Keywords

EN

Czech puppet theatre; marionettes; traditional theatre; folk theatre; travelling theatre; variety puppets; trick puppets

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts
• Journal: Theatralia: Revue současného myšlení o divadelní kultuře (Theatralia: The revue of contemporary thought on theatre culture)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 70-134
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Marie Jirásková

• Theatralia, redakce, Masarykova univerzita, Filozofická fakulta, Katedra divadelních studií, Arna Nováka 1, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic

author

Pavel Jirásek

• Theatralia, redakce, Masarykova univerzita, Filozofická fakulta, Katedra divadelních studií, Arna Nováka 1, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic