From: Grego <grego-AT-gregoland.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:36:27 +0900
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Show alert/Chase's Jack tales



> Maybe I can obtain a copy of the study guide supplied by Das  
> Puppenspiel for use by teachers

Alan, the site at the link you supplied has this link to a study guide:
http://www.puppets.org/wimages/Beanstalk_Studyguide.pdf

As for the partial list of puppeteers at the Ren Faire, (count me  
in), after the Faire split from KPFK it was run by the Patterson  
family, whose youngest son, Brian, did Punch there, and may still be  
active. SF guild members may have more up to date info on that than me.
Ken Feit is another legendary name that has come up before on this  
list, who passed through the Faire shires.
Giant puppets there included a group that was said to have spun off  
of Bread and Puppet in the early 70s. The giants you remember seeing  
in processions were probably Gog and Magog, built by the Faire's  
design dept. in imitation of the ones from that group.
And finally, getting back to Jack, most of you have probably heard  
that the Jack tales were the source of the name for those charming  
little Appalachian clogging puppets, limberjacks.
-G


> The Faires have been independent of KPFK for decades.
>
>  I went  to the 2009 Faire now at Santa Fe Dam, on Easter Sunday.  
> The only puppets were those by Folkmanis, on sale at a poppet  
> booth, but at past Faires, Bruce D. Schwartz originated his famed  
> "The Rat of Huge Proportions" and "The Farmer's Acursed Wife" at  
> age 17/18 when the Faire was in Agoura. Preston Hibbard did  
> "Punch", and French puppeteer Roger Jouglet  (sometime Los Angeles  
> resident) performed  too. Some years, Giant puppets were included  
> in the Royal Procession. And my good friends Phil & Sharon Moyer,  
> (volunteers at the International Puppetry Museum, active members &  
> officers of the Los Angeles Guild of Puppetry) were active  
> participants at the Faires until their deaths last year. I miss  
> them & I miss seeing puppet shows at the Faire.
>
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