To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 08:52:13 -0400 From: tozuss-AT-aol.com Subject: [Puptcrit] mythical thinking versus critical thinking Richard Dawkins is going to write a children's book! Dawkins is questioning the value of fairytales and how they may teach children to think. www.milkandcookies.com Suzanne -----Original Message----- From: Steven Barr <lapuppet-AT-gmail.com> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Sent: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 9:05 pm Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Zipes & Stories Conrad, Is Peter Brosius still in MN? Does anyone know how I can contact him? I haven't seen him in 15 yrs. -Steven Ritz-BArr On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 5:56 PM, The Independent Eye <eye-AT-independenteye.org > wrote: > >Jack Zipes has translated Grimms has written many books about Fairy > Tales... > > I haven't been in contact with Jack Zipes for a number of years, but > strongly recommend his many books on folktales. Glad to hear about > his work in Minneapolis. The Children's Theatre Company there, led > by Peter Brosius (who directed one of our plays many years ago at > Mark Taper Forum), is exemplary not only in its level of production > value but in finding new avenues of interaction with its audience. > > One of Jack's early publications was POLITICAL PLAYS FOR CHILDREN, a > translation of plays by the Berlin children's theatre GRIPS. We > produced one of them, MUGNOG, with Theatre X in Milwaukee. Very > intelligent, entertaining, non-preachy, humane pieces. > > I wonder if anyone has produced any of the GRIPS pieces with puppets? > Seems to me they'd be very effective. We'd do it in a flash if we > did stuff for kids. Maybe we should. > > Cheers- > Conrad B. > _______________________________________________ > List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org > Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit > Archives: http://www.driftline.org > -- FAUST PuppenFilm by Steven Ritz-Barr "This is a fascinating piece which uses the visual-music aspect of puppetry to make images as puppet theatre can at it's best." -Dr. Kathie Folie, Univ. of Cal, Santa Cruz Theatre Chair and Professor Classics in Miniature, LLC Metropolitan Puppet Authority, Non-profit www.lapuppet.com www.classicsinminiature.com _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit Archives: http://www.driftline.org _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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