Puppets and masks are central to some of the oldest worldwide forms of                  art making and performance, as well as some of the newest. In the twentieth century,                  French symbolists, Russian futurists and constructivists, Prague School                  semioticians, and avant-garde artists around the world have all explored the                  experimental, social, and political value of performing objects. In recent years,                  puppets, masks, and objects have been the focus of Broadway musicals, postmodernist                  theory, political spectacle, performance art, and new academic programs, for                  example, at the California Institute of the Arts.This volume, which originally                  appeared as a special issue of TDR/The Drama Review, looks at puppets, masks, and                  other performing objects from a broad range of perspectives. The topics include                  Stephen Kaplin's new theory of puppet theater based on distance and ratio, a                  historical overview of mechanical and electrical performing objects, a Yiddish                  puppet theater of the 1920s and 1930s, an account of the Bread and Puppet Theater's                  Domestic Resurrection Circus and a manifesto by its founder, Peter Schumann, and                  interviews with director Julie Taymor and Peruvian mask-maker Gustavo Boada. The                  book also includes the first English translation of Pyotr Bogatyrev's influential                  1923 essay on Czech and Russian puppet and folk theaters.Contributors John Bell,                  Pyotr Bogatyrev, Stephen Kaplin, Edward Portnoy, Richard Schechner, Peter Schumann,                  Salil Singh, Theodora Skipitares, Mark Sussman, Steve Tilllis.

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