Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:03:24 -0500
From: "Fall, Brigid" <brigid.fall-AT-toledolibrary.org>
To: <puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org>
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] funerals and puppets


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Hello again, Rolande:

Yeah.  I'm not sure how they worked them into the service, but my friend's stories (one East Asian, one Native American) told of where our souls go when our bodies die.  I'm not sure what beliefs the mourners held, but these stories would have given *me* comfort, anyway.  Sounds like your puppets did likewise.

Brid


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 Thank you, Brid.
 Folktales at a funeral sounds interesting -- more than just entertainment for the young, I am guessing?
 I performed my strolling marionettes at the luncheon after the service. Wordlessly, they meandered through the crowd of darkly dressed giants. Some oohs and aahs, watching their little routines. Others with sidelong glances, suspicious and not wanting to look. One crying four year old stopped crying in order to wonder at a rod butterfly.
 Rolande



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 From: brigid.fall-AT-toledolibrary.org
 To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
 Sent: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 1:14 PM
 Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] funerals and puppets

  Hi, Rolande:

Not exactly the same thing, but a friend of mine was asked to tell stories at a
funeral.  Folktales, not a eulogy.

Brid in Toledo

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  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?

 Does anyone else have any experience (in our western traditions) performing
puppets for funerals?

 Rolande



 
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 Sent: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 9:45 AM
 Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] shadow puppets

  What ever the the origins/inspirations, be it to a flicking fire
shadows in a cave to an ancient shamanic ritual with an animal skin
yurt as the screen, the tradition has made it to the pinnacle of
American pop culture & sports-o-tainment: the Super Bowl.

The most provocative/controversial moment of the overblown event
seemed to be Prince doing his shadow puppet version of the Australian
bred Puppetry of the Penis show.

"If Prince did his penis shadow puppet intentionally - and I believe
he did - it ranks as one of the all-time great pranks of modern
civilization. It also sets the bar much higher for whoever does the
next show." -Scott Adams

http://tinyurl.com/yspw5d




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