File puptcrit/puptcrit.0711, message 80


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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:11:52 -0500
From: seankeohane-AT-aol.com
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] UBU et plus


And please don't forget "Merchant of Blows-with-a-Stick and Other Plays 
by Louis Duranty," translated by Sean Keohane (moi), with five 19th 
century puppet playscripts published in both French and English by 
Charlemagne Press of Canada.

It is currently available through the Puppetry Store at the PoA as well 
as Amazon.com.  With beautiful illustrations by Judd Palmer of the Old 
Trouts, the volume would make a delightful holiday gift!  Joyeux Noel!

I hope to bring out a volume dedicated to translations of puppet 
scripts specifically starring Polichinelle (the Gallic Punch), but 
"Merchant" features several Commedia characters, including Pierrot, 
Arlequin, and Cassandre.  If people buy this first one, perhaps we 
could publish a second.

I'd love to be able to sit in an audience someday and see some of these 
old plays performed, but right now I stage a few of them myself. For my 
sister's wedding this Saturday, I will present one of them at the 
couple's wedding reception.

Bless you all, particularly if you buy a copy of "Merchant of 
Blows-with-a-Stick"--

Sean K.



-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Richardson <zenchops59-AT-yahoo.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Sent: Wed, Nov 14  9:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] UBU

Yo Ed,

           I'm planning on using Cyril Connolly's translation of UBU 
CUCKOLDED, which very definately is still controlled by a literary 
agent regarding liability for royalties.  I supppose that if you can 
find a 100 year old translation, or translate it yourself, or perform 
it in French, then no royalty would be due. But I am no expert in this 
area.... and would love to have a different option other than the $50 
per gig " tax ".

          My production of this play is being developed as something 
close to, " Wayang Ubu ",
   because it will use both Indonesian-inspired puppets, and be entirely 
presented by myself, as a one person show. I'd started on this project 
many years ago, back before I shelved this puppet career for a decade. 
In 2001, I re-opened my puppet company using this same play as the 
first project that this more recent company, Red String, put out there. 
I taught a course at Tulane University and had my students ( 5 ) 
perform this play as their main objective for the course. They used 
everything I'd made up to that point, and made the missing parts 
themselves.  I was pleased with the outcome.... and decided to go ahead 
and push the thing forward as a commercial, one-man presentation.  
Since that time,  I've finished producing all cast members, with the 
final piece of scenery for this  play being cut right now in Indonesia. 
  Like all my puppets, these wayang that I design are cut from 
transparent buffalo hide, which I then paint with transparent 
watercolors.

         I continue to      understand more and more about the 
traditional Javanese wayang theatre, reasons for design and techniques 
of presentation,etc., the further and further I deviate from it. This 
play definately will have left the station in many ways from a wayang 
play... but it is fascinating to observe where it is also so clearly 
related. This is also the first production I've ever done where I am 
not the author.

        So... tell me then, how are you planning to handle the far more 
complex UBU ROI ?

    regards,

    Michael

Ed Atkeson <edatkeson-AT-earthlink.net> wrote:
  >>> Sorry Daniel if I took you for a fat cat. Maybe I did a poor
job of describing my project too. I'm working on this wayang version
( my own puppets designs ) for Jarry's play, UBU CUCKOLDED.
-----------------
Michael R,
Off the subject, but...
Are you sure you have to pay for the Ubu Cocu? It's over a hundred
years old.
Well, I didn't really find a date for Ubu Cuckolded, but Uby Rex was
1898 and I fugure Ubu Cuckolded must have been soon after, and Jarry
died in 1907.

I'd love to know more about your production since I'm doing Ubu Rex
next year.
best,
Ed A
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