Molière's "The Miser"
Object Theatre
What is Object Theatre?
When puppets are involved, the majority of people think of the traditional techniques practised in Europe: marionettes, glove puppets, etc. However, their contemporary forms or those which come from countries further away, are often forgotten: shadow puppetry, Japanese Bunraku and other innumerable variations on traditional techniques. Nevertheless, puppets are still evolving rapidly, combining all different kinds of techniques. They continue to surprise an ever-widening audience, for whom they do not represent an old fashioned art, nor are they restricted solely to children.
Object Theatre is one of the modern forms of puppetry. It consists of using everyday objects and giving them life, as you would with a puppet, given that the objects always retain some trace of the humanity which has created them.
Symmetry, for example, is found as much in the human body as it is in a tap, a chair or even a tree, and the nerves which form the structure of its leaves.
The use which man gives to an object also conditions it and by, for example, providing it with handles, one is already leaving a mark upon it. As such, by carefully observing a tap, one can discover in it a physiognomy, a ‘mask’ and the possibility of a personality. It is necessary to find which theme works with the type of objects to be used, one which justifies and makes their use in the performance possible.
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