Essay
Performing the Fractured Puppet Self
Employing auto-ethnopuppetry to portray and challenge cultural and personal constructions of the disabled body
The play “Pupa" was the apotheosis of my PhD research. The stories collected, the many wonderful books I read, the development of an exo-skeleton; these were all steps in this research, culminating in a play which wove participants’ and my narrative together with fairy tales such as Pinocchio. The below text is an extract from my 2018 PhD thesis.1 Part of this text was altered so it could be read apart from the thesis.
von Emma Fisher
Erschienen in: double 43: Barrieren | frei – Zugänge zum Figurentheater (04/2021)
Assoziationen: Puppen-, Figuren- & Objekttheater Europa Debatte Wissenschaft
