Proceedings of the Soviet/British Puppetry Conference

<p>This is Volume 1, Part 1 of the Contemporary Theatre Review of 1992. It includes the proceedings of the Soviet and British Puppetry Conference which provided the informed reflections on the workings of puppet theatres within both cultures that was brought about by a cultural exchange between the Rostov State Puppet Theatre and the Scottish Mask and Puppet Centre. </p> Acknowledgements, Introduction, Petrushka and Punch, The Leningrad Puppet Theatre and Folk Tradition, Puppet Theatre in the Home in Pre-Revolutionary Russia, The Artist’s Puppet Theatre, The Oriental Roots of Soviet Rod Puppets