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Colecție: Educație teatrală

ISBN: 978-606-082-066-6; 978-606-14-2150-3

An apariție: 2025
Tip ediție: broșată
Format:
Pagini: 126

Stanciu Daniel

 

Traditional Theatre and Cult Puppet Theatre in Romania

Origins and Influences

Coeditare: UNATC Press & Universitaria Craiova

Translated from Romanian by Octavian Syalad

In his erudite study, Daniel Stanciu offers an incursion into the history of puppet theatre. Reconstructing the genealogy of this dramatic form, he describes the complex intertwinings, across different eras and cultures, between popular or traditional puppet theatre and its cultivated or artistic counterpart. The author traces the magical and cultic sources of popular theatre and shows how various rituals—agrarian, pastoral, totemic, or funerary—were transformed into entertainment. Particularly intriguing is his hypothesis that the central figures of traditional theatre (and, by extension, of puppet theatre) descend from the figure of the shaman, with his various incarnations: the sacred clown, the jester, the trickster, the magician-illusionist, and the puppeteer-ventriloquist. Stanciu highlights the subversive nature of traditional puppet theatre, which—through its crude humor, its allusions to violence, and its carnivalesque reversals—criticizes and endangers the social establishment.

Colecție: Educație teatrală

ISBN: 978-606-082-066-6; 978-606-14-2150-3

An apariție: 2025
Tip ediție: broșată
Format:
Pagini: 126

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