Date: Tue,  9 May 2006 16:47:24 -0400
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Suitcase Puppetry


I think, as Matthieu writes, it is mostly a matter of scale. Like "tabletop" 
puppetry, this is a term that is being used more and more, and clearly not 
everyone who uses it is working from the same definition.

Ronnie Burkett began to get noticed doing "suitcase" hand-puppets shows for 
adults with a "strap-on" puppet theatre. More recently, in Toronto, Mark Keetch 
did a "suitcase" puppet piece. At least, I think you could call it that. While 
he didn't literally put it in a suitcase, it collapsed down and fit into a 
roughly suitcase-sized box. See his website for a series of pictures 
demonstrating this:

http://www.zagadka.ca/html/p_ourtime06.html

Hope this is of some help. I don't have Philpott's dictionary handy, but I'm not 
sure that it would be in there.


Best,

Jamie Ashby

PhD Candidate: "Ideas in Motion: New Work Development at Puppetmongers Theatre 
Company" 
Graduate Centre for Study of Drama,
University of Toronto

Co-founder, PuppUTopiate: the *only* puppet company at the Univ. of Toronto




Quoting Terri Mennear <tmennea-AT-rpl.regina.sk.ca>:

> Hello:
> 
> I have come across the term "suitcase puppetry" in a couple of places.
> Can anyone tell me anything about this form of puppetry?  Thanks for your
> help.
> 
> Terri
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