Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.17234/SRAZ.65.25
Eugène Ionesco’s stories on the puppet theater scene
Maja Verdonik
orcid.org/0000-0002-2677-5205
; University of Rijeka
Abstract
The Rijeka City Puppet Theater has performed several puppet shows during the
course of its institutional activity since 1960, based on works from the oeuvre of French
literature and art. In addition to presenting these plays, this paper gives particular
attention to the play All About Jacquelines, a homage to Eugène Ionesco (2004), performed
as an interplay between actresses and puppets, based on Stories for Children Under
Three Years of Age, written by Eugène Ionesco for his thirty-three-month-old daughter
Marie-France. The play features some intertextual links to Ionesco’s dramatic oeuvre,
as well as intermedial links to the paintings of the Belgian surrealist painter René
Magritte, as well as to the music of the French composer Eric Satie. The peculiarity of
performing All About Jacquelines, a homage to Eugène Ionesco, makes the breakthrough
of this Theater beyond the established experience of puppet theater as an art form
intended primarily for children’s audiences.
Keywords
Eugène Ionesco, René Magritte, Rijeka City Puppet Theater
Hrčak ID:
260752
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Publication date:
21.12.2020.
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