From 9.30am to 11am: “Écrire Marionnette” In 2025, three regional groups - the Collectif marionnettes en AURA (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes), the Fédération des arts de la marionnette en Occitanie and POLEM - carried out a survey among their members to identify the characteristics and specificities of theatrical writing for puppets and objects. The survey [...]

In her study “La Marionnette, Laboratoire du Théâtre”, Hélène Beauchamp argues for the puppet's ability to question and develop the aesthetics of theatre: «At the end of the 19th century, throughout Europe, the theatrical avant-gardes made the puppet, which until then had been rooted in declining traditions, a [...].