1st Edition
Race, Gender, and Disability in Puppetry and Material Performance
Foreword
Katherine Hipkiss
Introduction
Paulette Richards, Hazel Briar, Alissa Mello, and Laura Purcell-Gates
Part 1: Reframing Puppetry Through Race, Gender, and Disability
1. Puppets on Plinths: Disrupting Gender and Hegemonic Narratives with General Baquedano's Monument During the 2019 Chilean Uprising
Denise Rogers Valenzuela
2. A Real American Wife, a Japanese Object: Critical Puppetry and the Construction of the Orient in Minghella’s Madam Butterfly
Tobi Poster-Su
3. Performing Emergenc(e)y: Puppetry, Gender, Race, and Madness in Plot 99
Aja Marneweck
4. Global Perspectives to Elevate Diversity in Puppetry
Ana Diaz Barriga
5. The Galilee Deaf Theatre Project
Pablo Ariel
Part 2: Negotiating Identities
6. Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue: Kids on the Block and the Intersectionality of Oppressions
Paulette Richards
7. Black Bodies in White Spaces: Reflections on Men/toring in Puppetry
Jacqueline Wade
8. Crip Ventriloquism as a Means of Coping with a Hidden Disability
Hendrik Quast
9. Beyond Representation: A Conversation with Jummy Faruq on Decentering Puppetry Practice and Design
Tobi Poster-Su
10. Pancha la Parda: A New Myth for an Ancient Tradition
Daniel Loyola
11. Colored Feels of Felt
Azusa SHESHE Dance
12. The “Other” Karagöz: The Kurdish Qeregoz
Duygu Çelik
13. Resisting Objects: « Refugee » Visibility in Theatre
Husam Abed
Part 3: Performances of the Other
14. What Happened to the Room of Forgotten Voices: Challenging the Flawed Vision of Human and Puppet Movement from the Past That Left Out Disabled People
Emma Fisher-Owen and Nikki Charlesworth
15. When Goiters Are Your Family Jewels: Maladies and the Grotesque in Regional Heroic Glove Puppet Characters of Northern Italy
Felice Amato
16. Intervening with Institutional Patriarchy: Woman Karagöz Puppeteers in Turkey
Deniz Başar
17. Puppetry, Race, and Identity in The Bluest Eye
Janni Younge
18. Remote Representation: A Puppetry Sensitization Project in Nairobi
Howard Abwao, Louis Netter, and Matt Smith
19. Making Seen/Sounding Difference: Performing Black at a Majority White Institution
Margaret Laurena Kemp
Biography
Paulette Richards is an independent researcher and co-curator of the Living Objects: African American Puppetry exhibit at the University of Connecticut’s Ballard Institute and Museum with Dr. John Bell.
Hazel Briar is an independent scholar with a PhD in theatre historiography from the University of Minnesota, USA. Her research examines performances of the dead, considering practices involving spiritualism and matter.
Alissa Mello is an award-winning editor, scholar, theatre artist, and Marie Sklodowska-Curie individual fellow (2022–2025) at the University of Exeter, UK. Their interests include women and performance, gender, identity, and practice.
Laura Purcell-Gates is a reader in theatre and performance at Bath Spa University in the UK and co-artistic director of Wattle and Daub, through which she conducts practice-based research on puppetry and non-normative bodies.
