Womxn in Puppetry: Round Table Discussion

A critical discussion between three leading puppeteers in Scotland, exploring contemporary puppetry practice from the perspective of gender. We will explore issues around whose stories are told in puppetry, and what kind of gender roles appear in those stories, gender balance in programming and how women’s work is presented and critically discussed, the process of puppet-making and how we signal and codify gender in puppetry, and barriers to progression for women (cisgender, transgender, genderqueer or intersex) in the puppetry sector. We will also explore the ways in which puppetry can be a powerful tool for subversion and protest.