Proceedings of the Soviet British Puppetry Conference: Glasgow, November 1989 (Proceedings of the Soviet-British Puppetry Conference)

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. There are some experiences which deepen with the passing of time. Exposure to andfamiliarity with the international art of puppet theatre is no exception. This introductionwas conceived somewhere beside the Black Sea in a moment of reflection some one anda half years after the Soviet-British International Union of Marionettes Artists (UNIMA)conference in Glasgow. I have just spent the past five weeks working as visiting artisticdirector and designer at the Rostov State Puppet Theatre on a puppet play adaptation ofOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Together with the playwr 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.