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From: "Mary Horsley" <mphorsley-AT-earthlink.net>
To: puptcrit-driftline.org-AT-lists.driftline.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] What motivated you in the beginning?
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 22:56:23 -0500


Good luck, Mathieu! Have fun....

Mary


> [Original Message]
> From: Mathieu <creaturiste-AT-magma.ca>
> To: <puptcrit-driftline.org-AT-lists.driftline.org>
> Date: 1/27/2005 5:36:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] What motivated you in the beginning?
>
> I always loved puppet shows, without ever realising I'd love to make and 
> perform puppets for a living.
> I kept making  tests for vague ideas I couldn't define but just Had to
try.
> My mother reminded me jhow I had destroyed most of my toys and stuffed 
> animals, to ty and make puppets out of them.
> These tests became puppet parts when assembled my first finished puppet.
>
> This first puppet was the one piece of work on my website that convinced
my 
> first customers, Kobol Marionnettes (www.kobol.ca) to hire me for their 
> puppet show. They gave me my first chance at this, and I was hooked. I
built 
> two puppets and 12 scenic objects. They re-hired me for their next show
too, 
> where I built over 16 puppets, and designed half of them.
>
> I can't live wihout puppetmaking now.
> My first festival last september really cemented my addiction!
> I now am studying whenever an wherever I can, to become a puppeteer as
well.
>
> Puppetry enables me to do EVERY discipline I enjoy, and learn some more, 
> everytime.
> Puppetry will finally enable me to travel. I just need to land a contract
to 
> go on tour.
>
> And people in the puppetworld are usually so great to work with, because 
> they too love what they do.
>
> I have an audition on tuesday night, to qualify for a puppeteer training 
> (bunraku inspired manipulation, really hidden this time) which will lead
to 
> a position in the next HUGE production, for the best ones of the group.
I'd 
> better practice my movements mentally and physically (I have no puppet of 
> this type and hight, so it's gonna be air-puppet-rehearsing) until then.
> Maybe I'll build a quick one with newspaper and tape. Fun!
>
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> Mathieu René Créaturiste
> Marionnettes, Masques, Etcetera...
> Puppets, Masks, Etcetera...
> creaturiste-AT-magma.ca
> www.creaturiste.com
> (514) 274-8027
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mark S. Segal" <segalpuppets-AT-comcast.net>
> To: <puptcrit-driftline.org-AT-lists.driftline.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 4:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] What motivated you in the beginning?
>
>
> > Watching Peter Arnott perform Oedipus when I was 16 or 17....
> > A guy named Tim Grey who was in the same theatre company with me in 
> > Worcster Ma (and who I went school with before that), who made
marionettes 
> > in his basement.
> >
> > A woman named Susan Mcginley who ran the Open Door Theatre (in Boston) 
> > from her apartment.
> >
> > Being turned off a bit to high production cost theatre in Stamford when
at 
> > the Hartman.
> >
> > Meeting Bil Baird....
> >
> > And most important of all.....being at my first festival in '76 and 
> > realizing what a truly wonderful, theatrical, accesible, unsurpassed 
> > theatre art puppetry is.
> >
> > Mark S.
> >
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