Theater Symposium, Volume 32 seeks to explore the collaborative interactions and ritual chains specific to performance during the collective reemergence into a hope filled post-COVID landscape. The contributors choose to engage this period of rebirth through an examination of the thriving and robust environment of material performance in all its facets. While vast in its diversity and by far the most popular aspect of object performance, puppetry serves as the guide into an even larger creative space of object performance styles and structures.