Objects with Objectives: a puppetry in applied drama research network

“有目标的对象”旨在将学者和实践者聚集在一起，共同探索应用戏剧和应用木偶戏之间潜在的相互作用。“木偶戏”在这里被用来表示一系列的表演技术，在这些技术中，物体是由人类操作员直接或间接地操纵的，这个项目的灵感来自于操作员和木偶之间的密切互动，就像开普敦的Handspring木偶公司为RNT制作的“战马”设计的木偶一样。“应用戏剧”在这里指的是一系列参与式戏剧技术，如奥古斯托·鲍尔的“被压迫剧场”、“回放剧场”和“见证剧场”。该网络包括来自英国、爱尔兰、南非、美国和澳大利亚的学者和从业人员。该网络的一些成员已经尝试将这些技术结合起来。其他人则在其中一个领域拥有成熟的专业知识。作为第19届ASSITEJ世界大会的一部分，具有应用戏剧和木偶戏专业知识的网络成员将于2017年5月在南非开普敦会面，交流技能和想法，并为将木偶戏和应用戏剧结合起来的小规模实验项目开发模型，这些项目将于2017年下半年在各自的基地单独或跨学科团队中交付。本地项目可以以工作坊或小规模演出为基础，可以专门为本课程设计，也可以与现有的教学或研究相结合。包括部分或全部网络的定期视频会议将允许分享正在进行的工作报告和不断分享想法，英国成员将于2017年9月作为TaPRA会议（戏剧和表演研究协会）的一部分重新召开会议，与TaPRA应用和社会戏剧研究小组分享中期发现。由网络成员组成的一个较小的指导小组将于2018年1月在贝尔法斯特女王大学重新集结，审查当地活动的结果，商定书面产出清单，并准备在线资源作为培训和教学资源发布在项目Vlog上。

'Objects with Objectives' seeks to bring together academics and practitioners in a shared international exploration of the potential interplay between Applied Drama and Applied Puppetry. 'Puppetry' is used here to denote a range of performance techniques in which objects are manipulated directly or indirectly by human operators, and the project has been inspired by approaches where there is a close interaction between operator and puppet as in the puppets devised for the RNT production of 'Warhorse' by the Cape Town-based Handspring Puppet Company. Applied Drama is used here to denote a range of participatory drama techniques such as Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, Playback Theatre and Theatre of Witness. The network includes academics and practitioners from the UK and Ireland, South Africa, the United States and Australia.Some members of the network have already experimented with combining these techniques. Others have an established expertise in one or the other. Members of the network, who have expertise in either or both applied drama and puppetry, will meet together in Cape Town, South Africa, in May 2017 as part of the 19th ASSITEJ World Congress to exchange skills and ideas and develop models for small-scale experimental projects that will combine puppetry and applied drama which they will deliver at their home base either singly or in interdisciplinary teams in the second half of 2017. Local projects may be based on workshops or small-scale performances and may be specifically designed for this programme or integrated with existing teaching or research. Periodic video conferencing, involving some or all of the network will allow for the sharing of reports on work-in-progress and the continuous sharing of ideas, with the UK members reconvening as part of the TaPRA conference (Theatre and Performance Research Association) in September 2017 to share interim findings with the TaPRA Applied and Social Theatre Worming Group. A smaller steering group made of network members will then reassemble at Queen's University, Belfast in January 2018, to review the findings of locally-based activities, agree a list of written outputs and prepare online resources for publication on the project Vlog as a training and teaching resource.