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to oneself. In Le Jeu de la Marionnette: l’Objet Intermédiaire et son Métathéâtre(1981), Gilles adopts a Lacanian perspective to discuss how puppets can be used bychildren as transitional objects in developing their relation to themselves and the world.She also explicitly refers to concepts developed by British psychoanalyst DonaldWinnicott in Playing and Reality (first published in 1971). Although I consider thepuppet as an image, as it will be further discussed in Chapter III, my understanding ofthe Other is not Lacanian but related to the philosophy of French Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre and to some extent to the philosophy of French phenomenologist EmmanuelLevinas. I have favoured a Sartrean phenomenological approach to manipulactingbecause I examine the alterity of the puppet through its ontological ambiguity. Even ifin some cases the relation of self to Other between the manipulactor and his puppet canrepresent a relation of oneself to oneself, as will be discussed in Chapter IV in regard tothe work of Compagnie Mossoux-Bonté for instance, this is not the only possible formof relation. The materiality of the puppet as an object is at the heart of this researchbecause it only represents an Other in the representational actuality of the performance.The ontological dualism presented by Sartre in Being and Nothingness, first publishedin 1943, allows me to examine the particularity of the puppet through its ontologicalambiguity. I further develop below the reasons for looking at Sartre and Levinas, aswell as for capitalising the word ‘Other’.1.2. Research itineraryThe mode of inquiry of this study is framed by Practice-as-Research through the settingof a dialogue between practice and theory. The aim is to understand how manipulactinginherently engages with representations of the Other because of the co-presence of the18
performer and the puppet. The starting point of this investigation is my practice as atheatre director. Since 2005, I have focused my directorial work on the interplaybetween puppets and performers by collaborating with artists trained in different stylesof acting, in physical theatre, in dance and, of course, in puppetry. The next sectionaddresses the itinerary of my research from its origins in my own practice as a theatredirector to its development into a PhD project and how the work of Sartre and Levinashave participated in my understanding of manipulacting.My research on manipulacting started in spring 2005 when I directed aproduction called Heartsnatcher that combined actors and puppets. At that time, apartfrom a short course in puppetry taken at Central School of Speech and Drama, myexperience with puppets was limited. The piece was inspired by a novel by Frenchnovelist, playwright, jazzman and engineer Boris Vian that we presented at the CockpitTheatre in London in May 2005. 3 It tells the story of Clementine, the mother of tripletswho believes that her sons, Joel, Noel and Citroen, are constantly under the threat ofdeadly danger because of terrible and absurd accidents that might happen to them. Sheconstantly seeks approval from Jacquemort, an unpredictable psychoanalyst, about theunreasonable solutions that she thinks up to keep her children safe. Clementine believesthat her children are part of herself and that she is a good mother because shepermanently fears for their lives. At the end of the piece, she decides to lock them incages to make sure that they will remain safe. The world created by Vian in his novel issurreal. For instance, the children discovered that they can fly if they eat bluecaterpillars. 4 Clementine and Jacquemort were enacted by actors while the childrenwere rod puppets. Beyond the fact that puppets could fly, they also materialised the idea3 I collaborated on Heartsnatcher with Juley Ayres, Adam Hypki, Kristin Kerwin and Eleanor Margolies.4 In September 2009, I mentioned this project to Duda Paiva before I interviewed him. He loved so muchthe ideas present in the book that he created Bastard! in 2011 freely inspired by Heartsnatcher that hepresented for the first time at the World Festival of Puppet Theatres in Charleville-Mezieres.19
Page 1 and 2: THE RISE OF MANIPULACTINGTHE PUPPET
Page 3 and 4: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThis research has b
Page 5 and 6: Being and Nothingness (1943), and b
Page 7 and 8: TABLE OF CONTENTSNotes for the read
Page 9 and 10: 4.3. Conclusion 166Chapter V The Ma
Page 11 and 12: List of figuresFigure 4.1 Tranter a
Page 13 and 14: NOTES FOR THE READERSThe mainspring
Page 15 and 16: staging issues such as characters w
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Page 21 and 22: productions looking at this relatio
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Page 25 and 26: • Who is the Other represented by
Page 27 and 28: 2) Member of a proposition about wh
Page 29 and 30: Adrian Mirvish and Adrian van den H
Page 31 and 32: accept the determination of structu
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Page 35 and 36: specific effects of alterity. In Ch
Page 37 and 38: company Morbus Théâtre. One of th
Page 39 and 40: Sergei Obraztsov, who embraced Mode
Page 41 and 42: organisations decided to explore ne
Page 43 and 44: However, unlike their fellows from
Page 45 and 46: time of writing this thesis. The di
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Page 51 and 52: [Albrecht Roser] trained me in stri
Page 53 and 54: Another level of interaction consis
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Page 57 and 58: elation between the body of the cha
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Page 61 and 62: forcing Tamar to pray alongside him
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CHAPTER IIIA PHENOMENOLOGICAL PERSP
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weight and tension which can be fru
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ground and her movements were large
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3.1.2. PostalgiaPostalgia is a twen
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ecomes a prisoner. Alongside this r
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ut there is no direct interaction b
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through movements that are read on
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presence of the performer. Yet, suc
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production. It had the longest rese
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their gazes. Although this is partl
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different levels of performance, an
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een integrated into the dramaturgy
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dialogue. Understanding how the alt
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alienation insofar as it engages co
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down on a small table while Nakamur
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However, Sartre disagrees with Hege
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106). The inter-subjective awarenes
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etween imagination and perception i
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Sartre first admits that the impers
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analogous to that which can appear
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interactions between Okoto and Naka
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the impression of an apparent subje
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internal negation is a relation bet
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Pierre as imaged. Conversely, unrea
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As Sartre and Levinas contend, a re
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CHAPTER IVCASE STUDIESTWO REPRESENT
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University to become a teacher, he
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theatre’ as ‘dramatic theatre i
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elated: a particular design affects
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head and occasionally the arms. The
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audience’s point of view. The mov
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triangulation taking place between
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positioned on one side of her, leav
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expression ‘more likely’ becaus
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Figure 3.7 Tranter and Muttirubbing
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about Lupus’ remark. By looking i
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Tranter to build a relation of self
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his directorial work as well as the
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Twin Houses consists of a series of
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this quality should be applied to t
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although it is not very clear wheth
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The Double has a more complete repr
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Double and sometimes the Man. This
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All of a sudden he takes her head i
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hand in order to diffuse all the mo
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never acknowledges the presence of
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heads are covered with veils which
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elationship set between puppets and
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thinking about something. At the sa
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linked to the self. The irreal body
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separates from these Others when he
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CHAPTER VTHE MAIDSONTOLOGY, DRAMATU
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original setting established by Gen
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of his shows during my research res
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Apart from the head, the design of
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subjectness. Thus, it appeared nece
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Maids2, Claire suspends the alterit
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manipulacting because the productio
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of emotion it is usually translated
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also forced the performers to remai
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the energy and warmth coming from A
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choices of relationship that were t
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Nakamura with Ilka Schönbein at th
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strongly characterised in this firs
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on the telling of the story than on
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The audience could not see the conn
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the previous section. Live shadows
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weight. In order to move the puppet
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Urashima Taro’s love. On one hand
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UT3 is intended to go one step furt
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consciousness is only directed towa
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One cannot help thinking that Otohi
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do not perceive her but instead enc
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CHAPTER VIIA METHOD OF PRACTICE FOR
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approach is through movement, it is
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gravity has to be understood in the
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using body-parts isolation which al
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Five possible calibrations of the g
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puppet without an articulated mouth
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Finally, as discussed in Chapter V
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CHAPTER VIIICONCLUSIONThe purpose o
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elationship. Sylvie Baillon, artist
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Compagnie Mossoux-Bonté (2009) Sep
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Keene, D. (1973) Bunraku: The Art o
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Podehl, E. (1991) ‘Ceux Qui Touch
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Tranter, N. (2009) Interview discus
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APPENDIX AINTERVIEWSNicole MossouxN
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NM: Ce n’est pas si systématique
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PP: Est-ce que vous avez un autre r
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PP: Pour vous c’est comme si vous
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PP: Qu’est-ce que vous appelez ex
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PP: That came later somehow?NT: I c
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the puppet and starts to animate th
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INTERVIEW WITH DUDA PAIVAANDEDERSON
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PP: It’s very Stanislavskian.DP:
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PP: There is also a pleasure to kno
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PP: Is it when you are very close t
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you are very important because you
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KK: Having seen many puppet shows a
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Postalgia (19mn)Filmed by Monika Ki
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Urashima TaroUT1.1 (11mn)Filmed at
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Cuniculus (2008)Stuffed Puppet Thea
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