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In theatre there is often a battle of egos between the actors and the audiences. The audience member sits back and says “Ok let me see what you’ve got: Do you possess the talent to suspend my disbelief? Will you be able to make me believe your story”? With puppet theatre, there is no battle of egos; a puppet has no ego, it is an empty vessel asking for any and all egos present to give it life.
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Hansen, I., Balkwill, P. (2016). Fractured Fables. In: Butterwick, S., Roy, C. (eds) Working the Margins of Community-Based Adult Learning. International Issues in Adult Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-483-1_11
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