Puppet Theater: Designing and Directing Visual Storytelling

Harvard FAS

Contemporary puppet theater approaches design and devising from a holistic perspective. All objects onstage contribute to a total performing world. Characters, scenery, and even the stage itself may all be manipulated by hand to become animate, performing beings. Through the lens of puppetry, students are invited to consider how all theater might use visual design elements as active storytellers.Students are guided through the creation and performance of two puppet shows, each in a different…