O repertório das marionetas antigas: uma dramaturgia sonora

even outside of erudite culture. We propose in this communication to approach the sound score of puppet theater based on a case study, focusing on traditional puppets that integrate contemporary Portuguese theatrical life. We will try to describe the dramaturgical dimension of the use of the music that is part of the spectacles, and of the voices that the manipulators, in their lines, lend to the puppet-objects. We will also emphasize the many other sounds that, with the distorted voices of the characters and the proliferation of noises - screams, blows, beats - are constitutive of the show and define the rhythm in performance.