Reappraising Western European Repertoires for Puppet and Marionette Theatres

Project Information

PuppetPlays

Grant agreement ID: 835193

DOI

10.3030/835193

Project closed

EC signature date 19 July 2019

Start date 1 October 2019

End date 30 September 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 288 832,00

EU contribution

€ 2 288 832,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITE PAUL-VALERY MONTPELLIER3
France

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (30)

Le guarattelle aldilà della tradizione e dell'innovazione. Scritture contemporanee per vecchi burattini

Author(s): Anna Leone
Published in: Acting Archives Review, Issue XIV-27, 2024, Page(s) 65-104, ISSN 2039-9766
Publisher: Acting Archives
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17782076

Performance review: <i>Baby Macbeth</i> by Agnès Limbos <i>Baby Macbeth</i> , directed by Agnès Limbos for the Compagnie Gare Centrale in association

Author(s): Sandrine Le Pors
Published in: Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies, Issue 117, 2025, Page(s) 176-178, ISSN 0184-7678
Publisher: Universite Paul Valery Montpellier III
DOI: 10.1177/01847678251339183

Guignol parodies Shakespeare: A case study of <i>Guignol et Juliette</i> and <i>Hamlet</i> by Pierre Rousset

Author(s): Yanna Kor
Published in: Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies, Issue 117, 2025, Page(s) 25-39, ISSN 0184-7678
Publisher: Universite Paul Valery Montpellier III
DOI: 10.1177/01847678251339029

Le bric-à-brac faustien, formes hétéroclites et inspirations fantastiques dans le répertoire pour marionnettes

Author(s): BOUTAN Jean
Published in: Otrante - Art et littérature fantastiques : Effigies fantastiques d'europe centrale, Issue No 52 Autumn, 2022 (Biannual)., 2023, Page(s) 23-35., ISSN 1148-0904
Publisher: Editions Kimé

Fairies, marionettes, and Shakespeare: The making of Colla's <i>A Midsummer Night's Dream</i>

Author(s): Vincenzo Pernice
Published in: Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies, Issue 117, 2025, Page(s) 119-127, ISSN 0184-7678
Publisher: Universite Paul Valery Montpellier III
DOI: 10.1177/01847678251339161

Reinventing Shakespeare in the puppet booth: dramaturgical experiments with glove puppets in Northern Italy

Author(s): Francesca Di Fazio
Published in: Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies, Issue 117, 2025, Page(s) 40-54, ISSN 0184-7678
Publisher: Universite Paul Valery Montpellier III
DOI: 10.1177/01847678251339028

On the staging of <i>Macbeth</i>

Author(s): João Paulo Seara Cardoso
Published in: Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies, Issue 117, 2025, Page(s) 111-118, ISSN 0184-7678
Publisher: Universite Paul Valery Montpellier III
DOI: 10.1177/01847678251339147

The Carolingian Epic in Traditional Liège Puppet Theatre: A Case Study of “Huon de Bordeaux” and “Quatre fils Aymon”

Author(s): KOR Yanna
Published in: AOQU. Achilles Orlando Quixote Ulysses. Rivista di Epica, Issue Biannual, 2023, ISSN 2724-3346
Publisher: Milano University Press
DOI: 10.54103/2724-3346/22147

A gender-fluid <i>Midsummer Night's Dream</i> : Interview with Jean-Michel d’Hoop, stage director and founder of Cie Point Zéro, Brussels

Author(s): Carole Guidicelli
Published in: Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies, Issue 117, 2025, Page(s) 137-147, ISSN 0184-7678
Publisher: Universite Paul Valery Montpellier III
DOI: 10.1177/01847678251339182

De Don Juan à Kasperl : le devenir populaire d’un mythe européen dans le théâtrede marionnettes en Europe centrale

Author(s): BOUTAN, Jean
Published in: Revue de littérature comparée, Issue vol. 385, no. 1 2023 (Quaterly)., 2023, Page(s) pp. 3-22., ISSN 0035-1466
Publisher: Editions Klincksieck
DOI: 10.3917/rlc.385.0007

Interview with Mervyn Millar, director and puppet designer

Author(s): Daniel Yabut
Published in: Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies, Issue 117, 2025, Page(s) 148-161, ISSN 0184-7678
Publisher: Universite Paul Valery Montpellier III
DOI: 10.1177/01847678251339148

La dissidence d’un petit monde : l’œuvre pour marionnettes de Franz von Pocci (1807-1876) au regard des traditions théâtrales de l’espace sud-allemand et autrichien

Author(s): Jean Boutan
Published in: Romantisme, Issue n° 206, 2025, Page(s) 95-105, ISSN 0048-8593
Publisher: A. Colin
DOI: 10.3917/rom.206.0095

Interview with Kimberley Sykes, director of <i>As You Like It</i> (2019) for the Royal Shakespeare Company

Author(s): Daniel Yabut
Published in: Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies, Issue 117, 2025, Page(s) 162-175, ISSN 0184-7678
Publisher: Universite Paul Valery Montpellier III
DOI: 10.1177/01847678251339149

On <i>Pulchi Shake and Spear</i> : An interview with Bruno Leone

Author(s): Carole Guidicelli, Anna Leone, Sara Maddalena, Didier Plassard, Janice Valls-Russell, Jean Vivier
Published in: Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies, Issue 117, 2025, Page(s) 128-136, ISSN 0184-7678
Publisher: Universite Paul Valery Montpellier III
DOI: 10.1177/01847678251339181

Making theatre from the debris of <i>The Tempest</i> : <i>La Tempête de Caliban</i> , a monologue for an actor-puppeteer and a foley artist partner

Author(s): Hélène Beauchamp
Published in: Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies, Issue 117, 2025, Page(s) 82-95, ISSN 0184-7678
Publisher: Universite Paul Valery Montpellier III
DOI: 10.1177/01847678251339038

Le geste défaillant de la marionnette

Author(s): Carole Guidicelli
Published in: Komodo 21, Issue 21, 2025, 2025, ISSN 2608-6115
Publisher: Numerev

La Iena di San Giorgio. Da leggenda popolare a mito burattinesco

Author(s): DI FAZIO, Francesca
Published in: DNA – Di Nulla Academia. Rivista di studi camporesiani, Issue 27245179, 2022, Page(s) 67-83, ISSN 2724-5179
Publisher: Università di Bologna, Italia
DOI: 10.6092/issn.2724-5179/15420

Figurations of Evil in Contemporary Puppet Theatre Dramaturgy

Author(s): DI FAZIO Francesca
Published in: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies: Puppet, Death, and the Devil: Presences of Afterlife in Puppet Theatre, Issue 24214353, 2022, Page(s) 121-141, ISSN 2421-4353
Publisher: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies
DOI: 10.13136/sjtds.v8i1.366

«Engendrer le génos. Insolites familles de bois dans le théâtre de Gigio Brunello.»

Author(s): Francesca Di Fazio
Published in: A l'épreuve. Revue de sciences humaines et sociales, Issue N. 7, 2020., 2021, ISSN 2534-6431
Publisher: RIRRA 21
DOI: 10.34847/nkl.3feeai5u

Introduction: Performing Shakespeare with puppets

Author(s): Carole Guidicelli, Didier Plassard, Cécile Decaix
Published in: Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies, Issue 117, 2025, Page(s) 3-10, ISSN 0184-7678
Publisher: Universite Paul Valery Montpellier III
DOI: 10.1177/01847678251339021

‘ <i>Enter several strange shapes</i> ’ ( <i>The Tempest</i> 3.3.18SD): Puppets in Footsbarn Travelling Theatre’s productions of Shakespeare

Author(s): Janice Valls-Russell
Published in: Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies, Issue 117, 2025, Page(s) 55-68, ISSN 0184-7678
Publisher: Universite Paul Valery Montpellier III
DOI: 10.1177/01847678251329703

Afterword: Shakespeare's attitude to puppets

Author(s): Tiffany Stern
Published in: Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies, Issue 117, 2025, Page(s) 179-187, ISSN 0184-7678
Publisher: Universite Paul Valery Montpellier III
DOI: 10.1177/01847678251339022

Artisanal inventiveness. The dynamics of rewriting in the plays of northern Italian puppeteers (19th-20th century)

Author(s): Di Fazio, Francesca
Published in: Mimesis Journal, Issue 13/1, 2024, Page(s) 109-126, ISSN 2279-7203
Publisher: Università di Torino
DOI: 10.13135/2389-6086/10079

Visualising Shakespeare: The impact of puppetry on dramaturgy and interpretation

Author(s): Carole Guidicelli
Published in: Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies, Issue 117, 2025, Page(s) 96-110, ISSN 0184-7678
Publisher: Universite Paul Valery Montpellier III
DOI: 10.1177/01847678251339031

Haunted Figures, Haunting Figures: Puppets and Marionettes as Testimonies of Liminal States

Author(s): PLASSARD Didier, GUIDICELLI Carole
Published in: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies: Puppet, Death, and the Devil: Presences of Afterlife in Puppet Theatre, Issue 24214353, 2022, Page(s) 11-34, ISSN 2421-4353
Publisher: Skenè
DOI: 10.13136/sjtds.v8i1.369

Representations of War on the Regional Puppet Stage: A Case Study of the Military Repertoire of L’ Théât’ Louis (Roubaix, France)

Author(s): Yanna Kor
Published in: European Journal of Theatre and Performance, Issue 6, 2025, Page(s) 74-115, ISSN 2664-1860
Publisher: University of Groningen Press
DOI: 10.21827/ejtp.7.42277

Le voyage spatial au théâtre de marionnettes en France et en Allemagne, XIX e -XXI e siècles

Author(s): Manuela Mohr
Published in: Revue de littérature comparée, Issue n° 389, 2024, Page(s) 21-36, ISSN 0035-1466
Publisher: Editions Klincksieck
DOI: 10.3917/rlc.389.0025

Death, the Devil and the Wife: Danse Macabre Motifs in Nineteenth-Century Puppetry, from Punch to Kasperl

Author(s): BOUTAN Jean
Published in: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies: Puppet, Death, and the Devil: Presences of Afterlife in Puppet Theatre, Issue 24214353, 2022, Page(s) 103-120, ISSN 2421-4353
Publisher: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies
DOI: 10.13136/sjtds.v8i1.362

‘Taking the car engine apart and show[ing] all the bits’: Adapting Shakespeare for the contemporary British puppet stage

Author(s): Cécile Decaix
Published in: Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies, Issue 117, 2025, Page(s) 69-81, ISSN 0184-7678
Publisher: Universite Paul Valery Montpellier III
DOI: 10.1177/01847678251339026

In the peep box of satire: Johann Friedrich Schink's <i>Prinz Hamlet von Dännemark</i>

Author(s): Jean Boutan
Published in: Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies, Issue 117, 2025, Page(s) 11-24, ISSN 0184-7678
Publisher: Universite Paul Valery Montpellier III
DOI: 10.1177/01847678251339030

Conference proceedings (4)

Western European avant-garde theatre and puppetry : a reappraisal

Author(s): PLASSARD, Didier
Published in: Theatralia. Journal of Theatre studies: The historical avant-garde in the European context, Issue vol. 25, 2022/1 (annual), 2022, Page(s) 13-26, ISSN 2336-4548
Publisher: Masaryk University Press
DOI: 10.5817/ty2022-1-2

“Drammaturgie originali per il teatro di figura contemporaneo. Il Macbeth all’improvviso di Gigio Brunello e Gyula Molnàr”

Author(s): Francesca Di Fazio
Published in: “Creating for the Stage and Other Spaces: Questioning Practices and Theories” in Arti della performance: orizzonti e culture (n. 13), A cura di: Guccini, Gerardo ; Longhi, Claudio ; Vianello, Daniele, Issue 2021, 2021, Page(s) 585-596, ISBN 9788854970717
Publisher: Università degli Studi, Bologna
DOI: 10.6092/unibo/amsacta/6823

How to Signify Otherness and Diasporic Bodies through Puppetry: Two Plays by Kossi Efoui

Author(s): DI FAZIO, Francesca
Published in: Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects, 2023
Publisher: UConn Library

Puppetry for a Total War : French and German Puppet Plays in World War I 

Author(s): PLASSARD, Didier
Published in: Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects, 2023
Publisher: UConn Library

Book chapters (2)

Quand le majeur devient mineur : marionnettes et drame religieux dans les cercles littéraires et artistiques de la fin du XIXe siècle

Author(s): Didier Plassard
Published in: Écrire en petit, jouer en mineur. Scènes et formes marginales à la Belle Époque, Issue 2025, 2025, Page(s) 113-124, ISBN 979-10-300-1133-3
Publisher: Presses universitaires de Bordeaux
DOI: 10.46608/primaluna33.9791030011333.9

L’art des ombres au Théâtre du Chat Noir :du scénario fumiste au récit épique

Author(s): Sophie Courtade
Published in: Écrire en petit, jouer en mineur. Scènes et formes marginales à la Belle Époque, Issue 2025, 2025, Page(s) 317-330, ISBN 979-10-300-1134-0
Publisher: Presses universitaires de Bordeaux
DOI: 10.46608/primaluna33.9791030011333.23

Thesis and dissertations (1)

La marionnette et son drame. : Les dramaturgies pour le théâtre de marionnettes contemporain en France et en Italie (1980-2020)

Author(s): Di Fazio, Francesca
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Université Paul-Valéty Montpellier 3
DOI: 10.48676/unibo/amsdottorato/10503

Monographic books (1)

Puppetry and Dramaturgy

Author(s): Didier Plassard
Published in: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History, Issue 2025, 2025, ISBN 978-3-032-05151-6
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-05151-6

Other (1)

The ERC PuppetPlays project : contribution for a non-linear history of the European theatre

Author(s): PLASSARD, Didier
Published in: Open Research Europe, 2023
Publisher: https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/
DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.15807.1