From: "Mark S. Segal" <segalpuppets-AT-comcast.net>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:55:19 -0400
Subject: [Puptcrit] Thanks John


John,
Thanks for that archive link you posted in your response to Conrad about the 
Tempest.
Really enjoyed that site.

Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Dudley" <john.dudley-AT-telepuppets.com>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 5:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] The Tempest?


> Conrad
>
> In response to your query re staging of The Tempest, I was
> commissioned to present a shortened version of the play at Stratford-
> upon- Avon for the
> quatercentenary celebrations in 1964. We played it four times daily in
> a marquee theatre for two weeks. The play was condensed into ten
> characters retaining all the major speeches
> and story line by an authority on Shakespeare's works and lasted 45
> minutes. The show was recorded at the Central School of Dramatic Art
> in London.
> If you go to website www.puppetarchives.co.uk you can see a backstage
> pictures of myself (young) with the marionettes.  There are a number
> of companies on this site,
> I am listed bottom left, click on and the picture is top right.
>
> Regards
>
> John Dudley
> The Dudley Marionettes
>
>
>
>
>
> On 24 Jul 2008, at 04:05, The Independent Eye wrote:
>
>> Friends-
>>
>> For September '09, our ensemble The Independent Eye is
>> creating a collaborative production of Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST as a
>> theatrical animation involving puppets, masks & digital media.
>>
>> I'm writing to ask if you know of any stagings of the play
>> involving puppets in any significant way.  In working with a classic
>> it's very useful to me to see where other people have gone with it,
>> even when my own vision is vastly different. I'm aware of stagings by
>> Underground Railway, Shadowlight, Julie Taymor, and Fred Curchack's
>> solo spin-off, and there must be countless others.
>>
>> I'd be hugely grateful for any leads.  Google is indeed a
>> resource, but with 37,000 hits on "shakespeare tempest puppets" I'd
>> rather rely on human beings.
>>
>> Peace & joy-
>>
>> Conrad Bishop
>> The Independent Eye, Ltd.
>> Sebastopol, CA
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