Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:33:39 -0700
To: "puptcrit" <puptcrit-driftline.org-AT-lists.driftline.org>
Subject: [Puptcrit] video and slide talk about Royal de Luxe, Seattle 31 July


Seattle puppeteers may want to check this out:


    Giant Puppets in London....
    Posted by: "John Boylan" jboylan-AT-speakeasy.net
    Fri Jul 7, 2006 8:49 am (PST)

    John Boylan presents:

    An evening of stunning urban spectacle and incredibly huge puppets

    GIANT PUPPETS IN LONDON: A CLOSE-UP LOOK AT ROYAL DE LUXE AND THE 
SULTAN'S ELEPHANT

    Monday, July 31, 7-9 pm
    Youngstown Cultural Art Center, in their air conditioned theater
    4408 Delridge Way SW

    We're back this summer for one event: Ellen Ziegler's video and slide 
talk about Royal de Luxe, Europe's renowned street theater company.

    You all may have seen pictures on the Web from this French troupe's 
spectacular street theater "The Sultan's Elephant," about a 
twenty-foot-tall space-traveling little girl who meets up with a 42-ton 
time-traveling mechanical elephant 
(http://www.thesultanselephant.com/gallery/large_image_pages/W2H0834.php). 
The show was first produced last year in France to commemorate the 
centenary of Jules Verne's death and was restaged this spring in London.

    Seattle artist Ellen Ziegler (http://www.ellenziegler.com) was in 
London to see the spectacle. Her sister-in-law is Nicky Webb, and Nicky's 
company Artichoke Productions 
(http://www.artichokeproductions.co.uk/index.htm) produced the event in 
London. Ellen has returned to Seattle with slides, video, and plenty of 
stories about Royal de Luxe.

    For those of you who love circus, street theater, giant puppets, and 
pure spectacle, this presentation is for you. As the Guardian put it, 
this was "an artistic occupation of the city and a reclamation of the 
streets for the people."

    As always, this event is free. This time, however, we'll be passing 
the hat to defray projection and space costs.

    As for the conversations, I frankly have given them little thought of 
late. But stay tuned, they'll be back in the fall.

For questions, contact John Boylan at 206-781-5674.
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