Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:05:25 -0500 From: "Arnold, Phil" <PArnold-AT-fanshawec.ca> To: <puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] shakespeare and puppets Over the past three decades (up to 2000) Sister Corona Sharpe (English professor) at Brescia College, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, has given performances of puppetry Shakespeare. The Sister made all the puppets and sets and organized groups of readers and performers. English professors and graduate students would read the text, while student puppeteers manipulated the puppets. I met the Sister in 2001 just after she retired from puppetry. I told her I was a puppeteer new to the city. She replied, "Well don't expect me to come and see anything you do, I'm too old." She showed me two of her puppets: Calaban and Ariel from The Tempest, then suddenly said: "you don't do that Muppet stuff do you? I don't like that; all that bobbing up and down as they leave the stage, it makes them look ridiculous!" This conversation is for ever etched into my mind. I had been meaning to contact Sister Sharpe again over the past 6 years but hadn't quite mustered the courage to do so. Then, for some unknown reason, I made a call to the college to see if she was still...there. "Unfortunately...," my heart dropped, I was too late..."the sister fell and broke her hip a few weeks ago and she's convalescing at Parkwood hospital." I was then transferred to the nun looking after my nun. She was thrilled to hear from me, and that someone was interested in Sister Corona's puppetry. The upshot of all this is that I will be considered to receive some of the puppets when an appropriate time comes. Next week I'm off to Museum London. "Hey! Do you need an exhibition idea?!" Phil Arnold Fanshawe College _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org Admin interface: http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/puptcrit-driftline.org Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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