Objects with Objectives: a puppetry in applied drama research network

“有目标的对象”旨在汇集学术界和从业者在应用戏剧和应用木偶之间的潜在相互作用的共同国际探索。“木偶”在这里用来表示一系列的表演技术，其中物体直接或间接地由人类操作员操纵，该项目的灵感来自于操作员和木偶之间密切互动的方法，如开普敦Handspring木偶公司为RNT制作的“Warhorse”设计的木偶。应用戏剧在这里用来指一系列参与性的戏剧技巧，如奥古斯托·波尔的被压迫者戏剧，回放戏剧和证人戏剧。该网络包括来自联合王国和爱尔兰、南非、美国和澳大利亚的学者和从业人员，网络的一些成员已经尝试将这些技术结合起来。其他人在一个或另一个方面有既定的专业知识。该网络的成员，谁拥有应用戏剧和木偶戏中的一个或两个专业知识，将在开普敦，南非，2017年5月，作为第19届ASSITEJ世界大会的一部分，交流技能和想法，并为小型企业开发模型，大规模的实验项目，将结合联合收割机木偶和应用戏剧，他们将提供在他们的家庭基地，无论是单独或跨学科的团队在下半年人2017地方项目可以以讲习班或小规模表演为基础，可以专门为这一方案设计，也可以与现有的教学或研究相结合。定期视频会议，涉及部分或全部网络将允许共享工作进展报告和持续分享想法，英国成员作为TaPRA会议的一部分重新召集（剧院和表演研究协会）在2017年9月与TaPRA应用和社会剧院蠕虫组分享中期调查结果。由网络成员组成的一个较小的指导小组将于2018年1月在贝尔法斯特的女王大学重新组装，以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Vlog项目上。

'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.