From: "Mary Horsley" <mphorsley-AT-earthlink.net>
To: puptcrit-driftline.org-AT-lists.driftline.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Chiodo Brothers - Creation
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 11:34:07 -0400


I would love to work with Bread and Puppet one summer....

Mary

"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
-Walter Bagehot

"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the
choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape
ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make
are ultimately our own responsibility."-----Eleanor Roosevelt

"Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are
dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do
it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many
tomorrows.

-Michael Landon

www.gentleteaching.com



> [Original Message]
> From: <Johnthomasbell-AT-aol.com>
> To: <puptcrit-driftline.org-AT-lists.driftline.org>
> Date: 8/8/2005 10:36:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Chiodo Brothers - Creation
>
>     It's great that the Chiodo Brothers are finding good work after Team 
> America: World Police, but let's be clear about what Creation is: an
entry in the 
> ongoing debates about creationism (or "intelligent design") vs.
evolution, 
> which George Bush this past week got into by saying "intelligent design"
should 
> be taught in schools.  An recent article from the Orange County Weekly
about 
> Creation puts it a bit more clearly:    
>     "In short, it’s all about intelligent design, that au courant
creation 
> story phenomenon with the scientific-sounding moniker. A variation on the 
> 200-year-old “watchmaker” conjecture, intelligent design represents a
back-door 
> attack on evolution. Karl Rove—or was it Cain?—says the key to a
successful 
> political campaign is to attack the enemy’s strength. Co-opt words such
as “
> intelligent” and “design” and “theory” and—poof!—science
isn’t science 
> anymore." (http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/05/48/theater-rosenberg.php).
>     It's great that Schuller and company are connecting to European
theater's 
> roots in Christian spectacle and puppet theater (i.e., the kind of
theater 
> that thrived between 800 and 1600 A.D.).  It's also really interesting
that so 
> much puppet spectacle is involved.  I think we should be as interested in
what 
> the spectacle is saying as in how it is achieved technically.
>     I am working with Bread and Puppet Theater this summer, and I would
be 
> remiss if I didn't report that in addition to amazing puppet spectacle (a 
> 30-foot-tall puppet god operated in a pine forest as a giant marionette!  
> large-scale outdoor spectacle and massive choruses!  clowns and music!
bread and 
> aieoli!), our point in doing this is to understand and try to explain
what we think 
> is going on in the world (including war, violence, etc. as well as the 
> persistent beauty of things).
>     Those of us who make puppet shows with political content are often 
> criticized for "injecting" politics into the pure art of puppetry.  I
find nothing 
> wrong with making puppet shows about religious or political subjects, but
think 
> it's good to be upfront about what exactly one is saying with one's
theater.
>
> john bell
>                 
>
> In a message dated 8/7/2005 4:56:17 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> steve-AT-axtell.com writes:
> The musical production "Creation" is being shown 
> at the Crystal Cathedral in So. California.   It 
> has a 28 ft. T Rex dinosaur and other large scale 
> puppets made by the Chioto Brothers.  It's 
> combined with aerobatics and animated projection 
> backgrounds 7 screens.  LA Times gave it a great review.
>
> http://www.creationlive.com
>
> The Chiodo brothers has a video clip under "sights and sounds".
>
> Ax
>
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