Review article

THE PRESENCE OF CROATIAN AUTHORS IN THE REPERTOIRE OF THE ZADAR PUPPET THEATER

Teodora Vigato ; Odjel za izobrazbu učitelja i odgojitelja, Sveučilište u Zadru

Abstract

The fifty-year actiities of the Zadar Puppet Theater started with the work of the actor and director Mile Gatara who created a recognizable puppetry style staging Croatian authors, mostly Vladimir Nazor, Vojmil Rabadan, Mladen Širola and Željko Hell.
Abandoning the poetics of imitating the puppet theater, new authors and novel puppetry esthetics were established in the Zadar Puppet Theater. The authoress of this paper singles out Luka Paljetak whose works steered away from naive stories exlusively intended for children, making puppetry popular among the adult audience. The main puppetry marks of the novel puppetry esthetics created in the Zadar Puppet Theater were rhythmic motion and music, while speech, otherwise a dominant mark of the actor theater, was less pronounced.
The authoress finds puppetry marks in the older Croatian literature texts which had been staged as puppet plays, addressing the issue of why it was in Zadar that the puppet plays Muke svete Margarite, Judita and Planine had been staged.

Keywords

Croatian authors; Zadar Puppet Theatre; puppet symbols; movement; repertoire

Hrčak ID:

21163

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/21163

Publication date:

18.11.2007.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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