File puptcrit/puptcrit.1001, message 28


From: Simon Palmer <simon-AT-illustrated-history.net>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 19:23:16 +0000
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppet versions of Strindberg's "A Dream Play"?


Photographs from A Dream Play here:

http://geoweb.civilisations.ca:8001/WebZ/GeacFETCH? 
sessionid=01-45780-1138332923&recno=1&resultset=1&format=F&next=html/ 
geacnffull.html&bad=error/ 
badfetch.html&&entitytoprecno=1&entitycurrecno=1

and here:

http://geoweb.civilisations.ca:8001/WebZ/GeacFETCH? 
sessionid=01-45780-578242220&recno=1&resultset=1&format=F&next=html/ 
geacnffull.html&bad=error/ 
badfetch.html&&entitytoprecno=1&entitycurrecno=1

links to other photos here:

http://theatre.civilisations.ca/narratives/details.php? 
lvl2=4810&lvl3=4818&lvl4=5329&language=english

There's another photograph of Woyzeck in one of the UNIMA  
compendiums, the last one (I think) Die Welt des Puppenspiels?



Simon Palmer
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On 5 Jan 2010, at 18:27, Steve Abrams wrote:

> Ronnie Burkett supplied this information-
>
> I found a wee bit of info on him in the Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia:
>
> http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Mirbt%2C%20Felix
>
> He was a huge force in his time, and I wonder if he ever gets the  
> credit he
> is due in puppetry.  He certainly paved the road for me in terms of  
> working
> on legitimate stages for adult audiences.  The 1970's were such a  
> rich time
> of activity in Canadian theatre...oh, the glory days when the arts  
> were
> actually funded!  I never met Felix, but have friends who worked  
> with him.
> By all accounts he was a passionate, difficult, interesting man,  
> always
> innovative.
>
> If I can find any photos of the production I'll send them your way,  
> or if I
> encounter someone who worked on the show I'll let you know.  My  
> best friend
> here (a puppeteer), as well as a neighbour (who is now a theatre  
> director),
> both worked with Felix on a production of Woyzeck when they were  
> young men.
>
> Cheers,
> Ronnie
>
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Bell, John <john.bell-AT-uconn.edu>  
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>  My graduate assistant here at UConn, Joe Therrien, is interested in
>> mounting a puppet production of Strindberg's "A Dream Play", and  
>> wonders if
>> there have been other puppet productions of this drama.  Does  
>> anyone on the
>> list have any advice about this?  Thanks for your attention!
>>
>> Yours,
>>
>> John Bell
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