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Eugène Ionesco’s stories on the puppet theater scene

The Rijeka City Puppet Theater has performed several puppet shows during the course of its institutional activity since 1960, based on works from the oeuvre of French literature and art. In addition to presenting these plays, this paper gives particular attention to the play All About Jacquelines, a homage to Eugène Ionesco (2004), performed as an interplay between actresses and puppets, based on Stories for Children Under Three Years of Age, written by Eugène Ionesco for his thirty-three-month- old daughter Marie-France. The play features some intertextual links to Ionesco’s dramatic oeuvre, as well as intermedial links to the paintings of the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte, as well as to the music of the French composer Eric Satie. The peculiarity of performing All About Jacquelines, a homage to Eugène Ionesco, makes the breakthrough of this Theater beyond the established experience of puppet theater as an art form intended primarily for children’s audiences.

Eugène Ionesco ; René Magritte ; Rijeka City Puppet Theater

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