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! > > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > List address: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org > > Admin interface: > > http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/puptcrit-driftline.org > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > List address: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org > Admin interface: http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/puptcrit-driftline.org _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org Admin interface: http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/puptcrit-driftline.org
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