Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:21:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Connor Hopkins <troublepuppet-AT-yahoo.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] [Puptcritals] funerals and pupperals



John Fox and Sue Gill founded Welfare State
International and have done all kinds of ceremonial
theater, much of it using puppets.  In fact, WSI was
laid to rest (forgive me) so that they could explore,
in their own words "the area between theatre and
contemporary ceremonies for rites of passage" with
their new project called Dead Good Guides.

http://www.deadgoodguides.com/

They are specifically interested in the uses of
theater as ritual and ceremony: weddings, births,
funerals.

WSI's approach to theater as a meaningful experience,
as opposed to commercial entertainment, has been
inspirational to me.  It seems they're going further
in that direction, and I only wish that were more
common.

Connor Hopkins
TroublePuppet Theater


--- Mary Horsley <mphorsley-AT-earthlink.net> wrote:

> I think performing at a funeral would be a terrific
> way to do a tribute to
> the person and his life. When I got married, my dear
> friend and her
> daughter did a puppet show at our reception. It was
> a highlight and meant a
> lot to me. She, as well as my husband,  has now
> passed over and this memory
> will be around for a long time. Sometimes we make
> funerals much too somber.
> 
> 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
> 
> We can't become what we need to be by remaining what
> we are.
>  
> --Oprah Winfrey
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > [Original Message]
> > From: <CzechMarionettes-AT-aol.com>
> > To: <puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org>
> > Date: 2/11/2007 11:06:26 AM
> > Subject: [Puptcrit] [Puptcritals] funerals and
> pupperals
> >
> > In a message dated 2/11/2007 10:37:47 AM Eastern
> Standard Time, 
> puppetpro-AT-aol.com writes:
> I was asked recently to perform at a funeral (not a
> puppeteer's). When I
> told 
> others about this, many were aghast at the idea, and
> thought it was
> terrible. 
> People play music at funerals, why not puppets?
> 
> Hey Roland, how's life?
> 
> Funeral sounds like fun.  Did you perform or will
> you?  
> 
> Please report, Roland, possibly in private e-mail,
> since you and the
> bereaved 
> may not want to splatter the story of their funeral
> all over Puprcit (sic).
> 
> On the other hand, if it's a New Orleans Style
> funeral...
> 
> Does anyone else have any experience (in our western
> traditions) performing 
> puppets for funerals?
> I cherish my memory of performing at a bar mitzvah
> (the only such gig
> ever).  
> Surpisingly (sic) they asked for a show and a
> workshop, which turned out to 
> mean babysitting to get the little ones out of
> everybody's hair.  You wish!
> It 
> didn't work.
> 
> Vit 
> 
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