From: <ginagambony-AT-bellsouth.net>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:08:08 -0500
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] pupaphobia


My boss is pupaphobic.  He's from Austria and has nightmarish memories of 
some large puppet parade when he was like 5.
Amazingly, he agreed to have our department (UNCW office of cultural 
affairs) to host the southeast regional POA festival next year...He is a 
pianist, I am making him a puppet out of piano guts for his birthday in 3 
weeks to help prepare him! hee hee

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>   1. A surprising comment from a surprising source (Alan Cook)
>   2. Re: Puppetry Cliches (Michael)
>   3. Re: A surprising comment from a surprising source
>      (Christopher Hudert)
>   4. puppet shows with Jewish content (Elizabeth Freeman)
>   5. Re: puppet shows with Jewish content - Ester
>      (czechmarionettes-AT-aol.com)
>   6. Puppetphobia/Fear of puppets (Alan Cook)
>   7. puppet shows with Jewish content (Robert Rogers)
>   8. Re: Puppetry Cliches (David J. Syrotiak)
>   9. Re: Puppetphobia/Fear of puppets (Alexander Winfield)
>  10. Re: Puppetry Cliches (Martin Holman)
>  11. Re: Puppetry Cliches (Kathleen David)
>  12. Re: Puppetry Cliches (The Independent Eye)
>  13. Re: Puppetphobia/Fear of puppets (The Independent Eye)
>  14. Re: light weight hand truck?? (Heather Jarry)
>  15. Re: light weight hand truck?? (Mark S. Segal)
>  16. puppet shows with Jewish content (Elizabeth Freeman)
>  17. Re: puppet shows with Jewish content (Geoffrey Navias)
>  18. Re: puppet shows with Jewish content (Mark S. Segal)
>  19. TV puppet satire torments Kenyan elite (fwd) ({ brad brace })
>  20. Teschner video (Hobey Ford)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:08:12 GMT
> From: Alan Cook <alangregorycook-AT-msn.com>
> Subject: [Puptcrit] A surprising comment from a surprising source
> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
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> While working with Johny Faust in the late 1940s ("Alice in Philcoland" a 
> touring marionette show) an elevator operator asked us "doesn't it get 
> boring doing the same show over and over?"
>
> I always thought an elevator operator had a boring job--up, down all day. 
> Most operators replaced by automatic elevators.
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:17:57 -0000
> From: "Michael" <michael-AT-michaeljdixon.com>
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppetry Cliches
> To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
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>> 2. A clich? headline for newspaper articles about puppet theater: "No
>> Strings Attached".<<
>
> You are right, at least four of the articles I have been in have used that
> title, and countless others I have seen on others.  Although I'm pretty 
> sure
> it is not as deep as "culturally assuming the dominance of string
> marionettes" I think it just plays to the general publics view of what a
> "puppet" is. Despite the dominance of glove puppets, if someone says "he's
> just like a puppet" they push their arms in front of their bodies and act
> like they are dangling, rather than hold their wrist in the air and waggle
> their fingers. Similar to how a political cartoonist tries to make a
> politician look "puppet like" they generally attach strings to him. I 
> think
> it's just a public persona of what a puppet should be, kind of like how we
> in England often call Vacuum cleaners "Hoovers" despite Dyson being a far
> more popular brand these days!
>
> One of the most common clich?'s for me as collector more so than 
> performer,
> is "oooh they scare me, I don't know how you can have them around your
> house - it's like they are watching you".
>
> I normally laugh....then tell the puppet to stop staring.
>
> Michael.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bell, John" <john.bell-AT-uconn.edu>
> To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
> Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 4:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppetry Cliches
>
>
>> 1. "You're a puppeteer?  What do you think of Julie Taymor?"  (or "what 
>> do
>> you think of 'Being John Malkovich,' 'Team America: World Police', or
>> another puppet film/event of the moment).
>>
>>
>> 2. A cliche headline for newspaper articles about puppet theater: "No
>> Strings Attached".  I've seen this headline in articles going back in 
>> time
>> to the 1950s (in connection with Frank Ballard), but noticed it 
>> repeatedly
>> in articles about Bread and Puppet over the past decades.  Others must
>> have run into this.  One imagines that each time a headline writer comes
>> up with the pun, she or he believes s/he has invented something entirely
>> witty and innovative.  This cliche is odd as well because culturally it
>> assumes the dominance of string marionettes as the norm, when in fact 
>> that
>> has not been the case since the 1960s at least.
>>
>> 3. In newspaper articles, such as the recent New York Times review of the
>> Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater's "Twelfth Night"
>> (http://theater.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/theater/reviews/20night.html?scp=2&sq=marionette&st=cse):
>> "Orsino emerges from a giant silver ice bucket. Sir Toby Belch and Sir
>> Andrew Aguecheek straddle huge liquor bottles. Olivia makes an entrance 
>> in
>> a loving cup big enough to hold her and a friend. Luckily, all the
>> characters are played by eight-inch-tall marionettes; otherwise the set
>> design budget would have been a monster."
>> --In other words, the writer's point of view is something like "you're 
>> not
>> going to believe this, but, amazingly enough, these folks are doing A
>> SHAKESPEARE PLAY with PUPPETS!!  Wow!  Look out!  Has this ever been done
>> before?"   If this cliched approach was applied to opera, you would
>> constantly get reviews amazedly documenting "a SHAKESPEARE play where the
>> actors--hold onto your hats!--SING!! instead of merely talking!!"; or an
>> animated film where, "AMAZINGLY ENOUGH, a human character is represented
>> by--DIGITAL INFORMATION!, not flesh-and-blood actors!!  Whoa!!  Has this
>> ever been done before?"   The very idea of puppetry is still seen as
>> something unknown, amazing, un-analyzed, and undocumented (--which, in 
>> the
>> long run might not be so bad a situation).
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>
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:04:37 -0500
> From: Christopher Hudert <heyhoot-AT-mindspring.com>
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] A surprising comment from a surprising source
> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
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>
> On Nov 21, 2009, at 12:08 PM, Alan Cook wrote:
>
>> While working with Johny Faust in the late 1940s ("Alice in
>> Philcoland" a touring marionette show) an elevator operator asked us
>> "doesn't it get boring doing the same show over and over?"
>>
>> I always thought an elevator operator had a boring job--up, down all
>> day. Most operators replaced by automatic elevators.
>
> Perhaps this is because the elevator operator saw some commonality -
> same thing over and over - and concluded doing the same show over and
> over was as boring as his own job.
>
> Then again, it is a matter of perspective. Like the puppeteer who
> 'same' show is constantly changed by new audience, the elevator
> operator's job constantly changes with new passengers - always the same
> and ever changing.
>
> Then I've met a few operators who've kept a sense of humor about their
> 'lot' in life: "the job has it's ups and downs."
>
>
> Christopher
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:18:47 -0500
> From: Elizabeth Freeman <LindenTree85-AT-comcast.net>
> Subject: [Puptcrit] puppet shows with Jewish content
> To: Puptcrit <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
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>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: sarahm45-AT-aol.com
> Date: November 21, 2009 8:56:09 AM EST
> To: bagop-AT-yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [bagop] puppet shows with Jewish content
>
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Someone asked me about my shows of Jewish content, but I'm not doing
> them anymore.  I'm wondering if you know of any such shows - local,
> national, or international.  I know of Hermann by Germany's Theater
> Im Wind, which I saw at the 1992 Henson Festival, but I don't know if
> they're around any longer.  And I know of Galapagos
> Puppets' (Margaret Moody and Madeleine Beresford) The Golem and
> Esther's Story.  Are there others you can think of?  Thanks so much
> for your time.  Sarah
>
> Sarah Lamstein
> www.sarahlamstein.com
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:45:57 -0500
> From: czechmarionettes-AT-aol.com
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] puppet shows with Jewish content - Ester
> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
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>
> We did Queen Ester in the Spring, here is some inffo:
>
>
> Jonathan Slaff & Associates
> Theatrical Press Representative     55 Perry Street, #1M      New  York, 
> NY 10014
> Tel. (212) 924-0496     Fax (877) 534-4061     js-AT-jsnyc.com 
> www.jsnyc.com
>
>
> Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre in
> "The Historye of Queen Esther, of King Ahasverus & of theHaughty Haman"
>
> WHERE AND WHEN:
> February 21-March7, 2009
> Preview Feb. 21,opens Feb. 22.
> The Marjorie S.Deane Little Theater, West Side Y, 10 West 64th St., 
> Manhattan
> Presented by GOHProductions
> SCHEDULE: Feb21-22, Feb. 26-March 1, March 3-7. Tuesday through Saturday 
> shows are at 7:30; matinees are Sat and Sun at2:00 pm.
> TICKETS: $19general admission; $12 seniors and kids under 12.  Box office: 
> www.ovationtix.com 212-875-4124.
> CRITICS AREINVITED on or after February 21.  Runningtime: 1 hr. 10 
> minutes; no intermission.
>
> NEWYORK, January 18 -- Just in time for the Purim season, 
> Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre will perform its "The Historye of 
> Queen Esther, of KingAhasverus & of the Haughty Haman" from February 21 to 
> March 7 at The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater ofthe West Side Y, located 
> on West 64th St. just West of Central Park West,Manhattan.  The production 
> featuresmodernist marionettes and those from the Czech Puppetry repertoire 
> and isrecommended for family audiences.
>
>
>
>
> Vit
>
> THE CZECHOSLOVAK-AMERICAN MARIONETTE THEATRE
> info-AT-czechmarionettes.org http://www.czechmarionettes.org 212-777-3891
>
> "Vit Horejs has written and directed a first-rate, thoroughly original 
> production and made it look effortless.  The cast gives charged, cohesive 
> performances, and the staging is expert".
>             Anita Gates, the New York Times.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elizabeth Freeman <LindenTree85-AT-comcast.net>
> To: Puptcrit <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
> Sent: Sat, Nov 21, 2009 2:18 pm
> Subject: [Puptcrit] puppet shows with Jewish content
>
>
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: sarahm45-AT-aol.com
> Date: November 21, 2009 8:56:09 AM EST
> To: bagop-AT-yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [bagop] puppet shows with Jewish content
>
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Someone asked me about my shows of Jewish content, but I'm not doing
> them anymore.  I'm wondering if you know of any such shows - local,
> national, or international.  I know of Hermann by Germany's Theater
> Im Wind, which I saw at the 1992 Henson Festival, but I don't know if
> they're around any longer.  And I know of Galapagos
> Puppets' (Margaret Moody and Madeleine Beresford) The Golem and
> Esther's Story.  Are there others you can think of?  Thanks so much
> for your time.  Sarah
>
> Sarah Lamstein
> www.sarahlamstein.com
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:00:40 GMT
> From: Alan Cook <alangregorycook-AT-msn.com>
> Subject: [Puptcrit] Puppetphobia/Fear of puppets
> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
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> Michael has touched on another subject, the irrational fear of puppets.
>
> I don't think it is s common as fear of clowns---a scary clown clown is a 
> disguised person, so you don't know what you are dealing with---and I have 
> met a few clowns who really were scary people in their own right but I 
> have  met only one or two puppeteers who were scary in real life---one was 
> Sky Highchief, whose living room was decorated in dungeon-style. He also 
> spoke of burning black candles and cursing people, and bragged that he 
> forged a parent's will. He was best dealt with at a long distance.
>
> I was interviwed by a reporter from the Ft Worth Star-Telegram about a 
> puppet exhibit in Dallas (Puppeteers of America travelling exhibit 
> 1980-1983), and we had to do the interview OUTSIDE the art gallery because 
> the reporter was unnerved "by all the puppets starin at her". She asked if 
> I had puppets in my house? Even in the bedroom (YES), and she visibly 
> shivered.
>
> I explained that the puppets were my friends, that they represented 
> artistic concepts, that they spoke to me as all ART does, not as something 
> from the Twilight Zone.
>
> The lady in charge of the Brander Matthews Theatre Collection (1979) at 
> Columbia University (NYC) would not go to the basement storage area 
> unaccompanied, because of her fear of the puppets and masks stored in 
> cupboards, while I was thrilled to be in that same space. I don't think 
> she was the best person for that job because of her fears.
>
> Those two are the only ones I've met so far who were puppet phobic.
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:09:45 -0500
> From: "Robert Rogers" <robertrogers-AT-robertrogerspuppets.com>
> Subject: [Puptcrit] puppet shows with Jewish content
> To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
> Message-ID: <48CC8C639B0B4F4F890EF69B4643E12C-AT-roberty0lfrawy>
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>
> I have several such shows in my repertory:
>
> Several years ago I developed a cast of characters called "The Famous 
> Chelm
> Players."  Chelm, though a real town in Poland, also exists as the 
> legendary
> "town of fools" which many Jewish writers have immortalized.  My 
> characters
> are a group of amateur actors who have dedicated themselves to bringing 
> the
> stories of Jewish history and its holidays to life.  And being from Chelm,
> they do it in a foolish way.
>
> In December, they will be performing "The Triumph of the Maccabees" for 
> the
> holiday of Chanukah.  Later in the year, they will present "It Happened in
> Shushan" a musical for Purim, and then "Parting of the Waves" for 
> Passover.
>
> I also perform "Three Stories for Shabbat (the Sabbath) year round.
>
> A few years ago, I also produced an elaborate adaptation of Isaac Bashevis
> Singer's, "Naftali the Storyteller."  It's a beautiful story, but for some
> reason, much harder to market.
>
> You can see more about my work in this area at my website:
> www.robertrogerspuppets.com. Just click on "The Famous Chelm Players." 
> You
> can see them on video, too.
>
> Hope this information helps.
>
> Robert Rogers
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:21:41 -0500
> From: "David J. Syrotiak" <syrotiak-AT-comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppetry Cliches
> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
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> You do puppets? That's SO CUTE!, and the ever popular newspaper
> cliche, "(insert name here), he/she pulls strings for a living".
>
> Sincerely,
>
> David J. Syrotiak
> syrotiak-AT-comcast.net
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:14:12 -0500
> From: Alexander Winfield <sheepwpunks-AT-gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppetphobia/Fear of puppets
> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
> Message-ID:
> <7336f0e60911211314w7897eb7ax96be1b0298e2cd97-AT-mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> To all...
>
>   This made me seek out the following: a fear of puppets is technically
> known as Pupaphobia. Curious.
>   It seems that Ventriloquist dolls are categorized slightly differently -
> as a fear of them is known as Autonomatonophobia. I actually do find the
> classic, Howdy-Doody style ventriloquist dolls a little creepy. They
> probably would do fine on stage, but their exaggerated features and glassy
> stares are the stuff of my nightmares when presented in a television
> Close-Up...
>
> -Alexander
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Alan Cook <alangregorycook-AT-msn.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> Michael has touched on another subject, the irrational fear of puppets.
>>
>> I don't think it is s common as fear of clowns---a scary clown clown is a
>> disguised person, so you don't know what you are dealing with---and I 
>> have
>> met a few clowns who really were scary people in their own right but I 
>> have
>>  met only one or two puppeteers who were scary in real life---one was Sky
>> Highchief, whose living room was decorated in dungeon-style. He also 
>> spoke
>> of burning black candles and cursing people, and bragged that he forged a
>> parent's will. He was best dealt with at a long distance.
>>
>> I was interviwed by a reporter from the Ft Worth Star-Telegram about a
>> puppet exhibit in Dallas (Puppeteers of America travelling exhibit
>> 1980-1983), and we had to do the interview OUTSIDE the art gallery 
>> because
>> the reporter was unnerved "by all the puppets starin at her". She asked 
>> if I
>> had puppets in my house? Even in the bedroom (YES), and she visibly
>> shivered.
>>
>> I explained that the puppets were my friends, that they represented
>> artistic concepts, that they spoke to me as all ART does, not as 
>> something
>> from the Twilight Zone.
>>
>> The lady in charge of the Brander Matthews Theatre Collection (1979) at
>> Columbia University (NYC) would not go to the basement storage area
>> unaccompanied, because of her fear of the puppets and masks stored in
>> cupboards, while I was thrilled to be in that same space. I don't think 
>> she
>> was the best person for that job because of her fears.
>>
>> Those two are the only ones I've met so far who were puppet phobic.
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
>> Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit
>> Archives: http://www.driftline.org
>>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 10
> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:36:05 -0600
> From: Martin Holman <jmartinholman-AT-gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppetry Cliches
> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
> Message-ID:
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
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> I think I should warn the next newspaper writer who interviews me that
> "Puppet Master" in the headline has already been done  .  .  .  many 
> times.
> I only WISH I were master enough to get puppets to always do what I want
> them to do.
>
> All this talk makes me want to put on my Fifth Dimension Greatest Hit CD 
> and
> listen to them sing the Howard Greenfield/Neil Sedaka song "Puppet Man."
>
> Marty
> ____________
> Martin Holman
> Bunraku Bay Puppet Theater
> www.bunraku.org
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 2:21 PM, David J. Syrotiak 
> <syrotiak-AT-comcast.net>wrote:
>
>> You do puppets? That's SO CUTE!, and the ever popular newspaper
>> cliche, "(insert name here), he/she pulls strings for a living".
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> David J. Syrotiak
>> syrotiak-AT-comcast.net
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
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>>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 11
> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:43:34 -0500
> From: Kathleen David <kathodavid-AT-mac.com>
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppetry Cliches
> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
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> The funny thing for me is that my puppet building company has been "No
> Strings Attached" since the late 70/early 80s.
> I didn't build marionettes or at least I didn't until I got a contract
> for a local commercial that paid me in the low 4 figures for a
> marionette they needed in a 48 hour period.
> I figure out how to do it pretty fast and did such a good job that
> they had be build a few other more prop things over the years.
> I have kept the name because I am quite fond of it.
> Kath
> Still owner of "No Strings Attached"
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 12
> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:02:50 -0800
> From: The Independent Eye <eye-AT-independenteye.org>
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppetry Cliches
> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
> Message-ID: <p06240808c72e21af326e-AT-[192.0.0.100]>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed"
>
> "They really come alive."
>
> Although how can you be such a curmudgeon as to think, "Well, that's
> the point!"?  Bless them for it.
>
> Cheers-
> Conrad
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 13
> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:25:25 -0800
> From: The Independent Eye <eye-AT-independenteye.org>
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppetphobia/Fear of puppets
> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
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> Seems like this would depend a lot on whether it's in performance or
> in an exhibit.  Also, the nature of the eyes.  With rare exceptions,
> a frozen puppet looks like a staring corpse.  Personally, I have a
> touch of fear when I see things that look like dead people
> - including my own puppets, sometimes - but not when I see dead
> people.
>
> With clowns, I think it's more the nature of the energy that's
> projected, and not necessarily related to how "aggressive" it is.
> I'd walk around the block to avoid even a benign pseudo-clown like
> Ronald Macdonald, but I'm drawn with delight to a vile aggressive
> creature like Leo Bassi.  There, I guess, the repulsion or "fright"
> is about a human being encased in an artificial botox persona.
>
> As a kid, I watched Howdy Doody and loved Claribel - not sure which
> one I saw, but definitely an aggressive anarchist.  As an adult, I
> happened to see an old video of the show's last performance, with the
> legendary final focus on Claribel's face, and Claribel speaking his
> first-ever words, "Hi kids."  I read later that the actor had played
> it for years, was enormously moved by this moment.  For me, this slow
> zoom to extreme close-up, to the point of seeing stubble under the
> whiteface, and these words disgorged up from the dark belly of
> Cthulu, was (and remains) for me a landmark of true horror, a real
> nightmare-provoker.  Not, I think, what the poor guy was trying to
> convey.  It was like some horror movie where the guy's face breaks
> off and you see what's underneath.  This was worse, like the man
> emerging from mucus.
>
> Others, of course, may remember it utterly differently.  If I'd seen
> that as a kid, I might have loved it.  I saw Nixon's "Checkers"
> speech when I was just 11 and thought he was the next Abe Lincoln.
> How time flies - or goes phloot!
>
> In both cases, puppets & clowns, it's probably a memory of some past
> trauma rather than what they're actually seeing at the moment.
>
> Peace & joy-
> Conrad
>
>
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> Message: 14
> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:45:56 -0600
> From: Heather Jarry <heatherjarry-AT-hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] light weight hand truck??
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> Thanks for all the suggestions!!!
>
> I am curious which size multicart you use Mark? The "R2" is the smallest 
> on their website.
>
> Also not sure what you meant by needing to float Kath?
>
> -Heather
>
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> Message: 15
> Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:54:16 -0500
> From: "Mark S. Segal" <segalpuppets-AT-comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] light weight hand truck??
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> To tell the truth, Don' t remember it was like 9 years ago and I got mine
> from a music store (Sam Ash) ...pneumatic wheels in the back..hard
> (universal) wheels up front..did not pay over 130 (I believe).
> And my weight concerns are probably not much over 100 lbs...if not far
> below..
> Do know that the 6 different pieces that constitute my regular show go 
> in -
> in one trip!
> Would guess the smaller to medium one.
> Mark
>
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>>
>> Thanks for all the suggestions!!!
>>
>> I am curious which size multicart you use Mark? The "R2" is the smallest
>> on their website.
>>
>> Also not sure what you meant by needing to float Kath?
>>
>> -Heather
>>
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> Message: 16
> Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:09:13 -0500
> From: Elizabeth Freeman <LindenTree85-AT-comcast.net>
> Subject: [Puptcrit] puppet shows with Jewish content
> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
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> With 3rd and 4th grade special ed students, in a multicultural
> elementary school, mostly Portuguese, Cambodian, and Hispanic,
>
> I've done    Hershel and the Chanukah Goblins and  The Magic Dreidle
> several times.   Fun!  Can make great simple puppets.
>
> My Asperger student really shined that time with  fantastic ideas for
> goblin voices and props... the other LD boys who usually picked on
> him, actually listened to him.
>
> Hope we can do something similar this year.
>
> liz
>
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> Message: 17
> Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:33:40 -0500
> From: Geoffrey Navias <geoff-AT-openhandtheater.org>
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] puppet shows with Jewish content
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> Sarah,
>
> We are just starting in the development stage of a new production entitled
> "The little village of Chelm, a nice place to visit".
>
> Geoffrey Navias
> Open Hand Theater
>
>
> On 11/21/09 2:18 PM, "Elizabeth Freeman" <LindenTree85-AT-comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>> From: sarahm45-AT-aol.com
>> Date: November 21, 2009 8:56:09 AM EST
>> To: bagop-AT-yahoogroups.com
>> Subject: [bagop] puppet shows with Jewish content
>>
>>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> Someone asked me about my shows of Jewish content, but I'm not doing
>> them anymore.  I'm wondering if you know of any such shows - local,
>> national, or international.  I know of Hermann by Germany's Theater
>> Im Wind, which I saw at the 1992 Henson Festival, but I don't know if
>> they're around any longer.  And I know of Galapagos
>> Puppets' (Margaret Moody and Madeleine Beresford) The Golem and
>> Esther's Story.  Are there others you can think of?  Thanks so much
>> for your time.  Sarah
>>
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>> www.sarahlamstein.com
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> Message: 18
> Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:54:58 -0500
> From: "Mark S. Segal" <segalpuppets-AT-comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] puppet shows with Jewish content
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> You could always check with Mark Levenson....
> Don't know what he is or is not doing currently - but he has (had) a great
> piece.
>
> Mark
>
>
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> Message: 19
> Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:31:23 -0800 (PST)
> From: { brad brace } <bbrace-AT-eskimo.com>
> Subject: [Puptcrit] TV puppet satire torments Kenyan elite (fwd)
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> African version of Spitting Image has delighted big
> audiences by ridiculing corrupt politicians
>
> A rapping president describes himself as "a real bad dude";
> a prime minister and vice-president fight over lavatories;
> and a set of parliamentarians suffer from a brain disease
> called "corruptophaelia".
>
> Welcome to Kenya, as seen and portrayed by Africa's version
> of Spitting Image, a daring puppet satire that is steadily
> pushing the boundaries of free expression and outraging the
> Nairobi elite. The XYZ Show, now preparing for its second
> series, proved a huge hit when it was launched in May. Its
> well-aimed barbs delighted a devoted and growing audience,
> while scandalising the politicians who are the show's main
> target.
>
> One cabinet minister denounced the programme as "weird",
> while another complained that villagers were mistaking the
> puppets for the real-life equivalents. But to the relief of
> viewers, the government decided not to order it off the air,
> even after a clip entitled "What if Kenya was perfect?",
> which depicted President Mwai Kibaki and the prime minister,
> Raila Odinga, in jail in The Hague for crimes committed
> during last year's election violence.
>
> "As soon as that episode ended, my friends were calling me
> to see if I'd been arrested," said the creator of The XYZ
> Show, Godfrey "Gado" Mwampembwa, the best-known newspaper
> cartoonist in east Africa.
>
> Gado has been working on the idea since 2002, when he
> visited the set of Les Guignols, the cult French puppet
> show. Given the Kenyan public's obsession with politics and
> the local history of comedy, he believed that there was a
> ready audience for the continent's first televised puppet
> satire.
>
> Initially, although the Kenyan media is among the freest in
> Africa Gado's biting cartoons in the Daily Nation newspaper
> are proof of that major television stations and corporate
> sponsors judged that lampooning the country's leaders before
> a potential audience of millions was a step too far.
>
> Undeterred, Gado sent a sculptor to France for a month to
> learn how to make puppets the sculptor returned home with a
> lifesize latex Kibaki and produced a pilot episode with
> financial help from a few western donor organisations.
>
> Citizen Television, a popular private station, eventually
> agreed to broadcast the show on a late night Sunday slot and
> to sign away editorial control to Gado. One of the first
> episodes satirised a sex boycott by MPs' wives angry at
> their husbands' refusal to work together in the coalition
> government. "We had people calling the station straight away
> to say it was taboo to talk about politicians having sex,"
> said Wachira Waruru, managing director of Citizen
> Television. "Others said we were disrespecting their leaders
> by making them say stupid things."
>
> Other viewers complained that the programme was too timid.
> With politicians providing no shortage of source material,
> Gado's all-Kenyan production built more puppets and took
> more risks with the content.  Odinga's outburst over the
> lack of a red carpet and VIP lavatories at an official
> function inspired the lavatory fight episode.
>
> Finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta, notorious for suing local
> newspapers for defamation, was mocked for describing a
> massive hole in the budget as a typing error. A doctor
> explained the MPs' corruption disease by dissecting the
> insect-ridden brain of former president Daniel arap Moi who
> might well have locked Gado up in his torture chambers over
> the episode were he still in power. Even Kibaki's wife,
> Lucy, famous for storming a newspaper office after midnight
> over a story that upset her, was seen as fair game.
>
> It did not take long for the political class to
> counter-attack. Public services minister Dalmas Otieno
> moaned in a press conference that the Kibaki puppet had had
> its nose twisted by one of the other characters. Aides to
> Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka complained to Citizen about
> their boss being shown "giggling like a schoolgirl" and
> questioned if the show was politically motivated.
>
> "Most Kenyans understand that we're providing a new platform
> for debate," said Gado. "It's just the political class left
> behind."
>
> Kenyan politicians are not the only people to have suffered
> ridicule. A jug-eared, foul-mouthed Barack Obama was shown
> debating with Osama bin Laden, who wore a Nike turban and
> drank Pepsi while pledging to end western civilisation.
> After the death of Michael Jackson, his puppet equivalent
> was questioned by God about why he changed his skin colour
> and about "those little boys". "Because I'm bad," Jackson
> replied.
>
> With The XYZ Show's second series due to begin in January,
> Gado is pondering ways to include figures from elsewhere on
> the continent. In South Africa, his friend and fellow
> cartoonist Jonathan "Zapiro"  Shapiro created a similar
> puppet satire for the national broadcaster SABC, which
> refused to air it after seeing a pilot. Instead, episodes of
> ZA News are released directly to the internet. "Maybe we can
> do a brief swap an Obama for a Zuma," said Gado.
>
> Satirical scourges
>
> Les Guignols de l'info
>
> France's long running answer to Spitting Image has been on
> air since 1988. The bane of France's political elite, it
> mercilessly lampoons President Nicolas Sarkozy as a Rolex
> collecting populist. Former president Jacques Chirac morphs
> into alter-ego "Super Menteur" (liar) at times of great
> need.
>
> Kukly
>
> This weekly puppet satire was hugely popular in Russia, with
> 40% of Moscow tuning in on Saturday nights, until it began
> to portray Vladimir Putin, then president, as a weak and
> indecisive new king, causing Putin aides to repremand the
> commercial channel responsible. The channels offices were
> raided by dozens of armed, balaclava'd KGB agents 'looking
> for documents' in 2000. The show ended under a political
> cloud in 2002.
>
> Las noticias del guinol
>
> Spanish puppets satirised the countries political and
> sporting figures until the programme went off air in 2008.
> It became famous for a catch-phrase attributed to former
> prime minister Jose Maria Aznar; "Spain is doing very well!"
> The show's popularity led to its writers winning a
> prestigious Premio Ondas Television award.
>
>
> /:b
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 20
> Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:30:01 -0500
> From: Hobey Ford <hobeyone-AT-gmail.com>
> Subject: [Puptcrit] Teschner video
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> Here is a link to a British film that has a bit of Rod puppet genius
> Richard Teschner performing in 1936.  It is the sencond or third video
> down on the site and the reel includes a couple of other segments
> before the clip on Teschner.  Some of it is a wee bit racy before you
> get to Teschner!
>
> http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=10401
>
>
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