Contemporary Puppetry and Criticism

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Contemporary puppetry has been transgressing its own limits for decades by continuously expanding and getting more prolific. On that journey, active viewers and critics represent the necessary interlocutors and final co-authors of the performance - the aforementioned premises form the basis of the book Contemporary Puppetry and Criticism. In the first part of the book, the authors provide a theoretical and historical approach to puppetry in Croatia, Slovenia, Scotland and Lithuania, while the second part focuses on criticism and the critics. In order not to dwell merely on ideas, the book is complemented by examples of reviews created at workshops of the Creative Europe project "EU Contemporary Puppetry Critical Platform", this book being one of the outcomes of the project. Thus conceptualized, the book represents a possible basis for further dialogues and interweaving of contemporary puppetry expression and theory, that is, criticism. Notes on contributors 
INTRODUCTION (Igor Tretinjak) CONTEMPORARY PUPPETRY
in Croatia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Scotland and Beyond * Didier Plassard, SCENES OF DISQUIET
The Creative Rise of Puppetry in the Vortex of New Realities * Igor Tretinjak, A FIELD OF UNEXPLORED POSSIBILITIES, Croatia * Tjaša Bertoncelj, ARTISTIC FREEDOM, Slovenia * Kristina Steiblytė, Ramunė Balevičiūtė, A CONSTANTLY REDISCOVERED PUPPET THEATRE, Lithuania * Gareth K Vile, A DESIRE TO RESIST THE OBVIOUS, Scotland CONTEMPORARY VIEWS ON PUPPET THEATRE CRITICISM * Lucija Periš, ABOUT THEATRE CRITICISM Introduction to Contemporary Puppet Theatre Criticism * Benjamin Zajc, HOW TO REACH A UTOPIAN TO MORROW? Diagnosis of Puppet Theatre Criticism in Slovenia * Ljiljana Dinić, PAST, PRESENT, MAYBE FUTURE On Puppet Theatre Criticism in Serbia * Kristina Steiblytė, WOES OF A FOE
Being a Theatre Critic in Lithuania – Social Criticism * Igor Tretinjak, FIRMLY GUIDED FREEDOM
Puppet Theatre Criticism in Croatia – Artistic Criticism * Gareth K Vile, NOTHING IS TRUE, EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED Pieces of Advice to a Future (Puppet Theatre) Critic in Scotland and Beyond EXAMPLES OF REVIEWS 
OF CONTEMPORARY PUPPETRY created within the workshops of the project
“EU Contemporary Puppetry Critical Platform” * Petar Sekelez, STAGE BLINK, 12th Lutkokaz: Ljubljana Puppet Theatre, Sand Pit, d. Miha Golob * Maša Radi Buh, THE UNBEARABLE FREEDO M OF ASSOCIATIVE THINKING, 11th Biennial of Puppetry Artists of Slovenia: GVR Zavod, Kino Šiška, The Last Temptation, d. Vlado R. Gotvan * Inesa Vėlavičiūtė, A JOURNEY INTO A FERAL FUTURE, Tortoise in a Nutshell, F eral, d. Ross MacKay * Gabrielė Pelakauskaitė, WHO IS SITTING ON THE THRONE: RABBIT OR MAN?, Ljubljana Puppet Theatre, Still Life, d. Tin Grabnar BIBLIOGRAPHY