From: Simon Palmer <simon-AT-illustrated-history.net>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 04:00:30 +0000
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] a new play


> a group of upper middle class folk who staged salon-type programs

Sounds like Maurice and George Sand's puppet theatre in Nohant. If  
you speak French or know a translator or can find a translation (...)  
George Sand's hand puppet plays may be of interest, Thé=E2tre de  
Nohant, 1864. Full text here:

http://www.archive.org/details/thtredenohant00sandgoog



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On 8 Feb 2010, at 20:03, Robert Rogers wrote:

> Thank you all for your suggestions of new play material.  I'm not  
> sure yet what I'll do, but here is my current thinking & what I was  
> after in the first place:
>
> When I was a teenager, I used to watch PBS TV specials in New York  
> City that featured the Standwell family of puppets.  They were  
> known as The Little Players, and were the creations of Francis  
> Peschka and W. Gordon Murdock.  I must admit that much of what they  
> did went over my head, but I thought that one day, I might like to  
> have my own Little Players.
>
> Well, I recently created a little theater out of part of my  
> workshop that can seat 25-30 people, and I thought that now the  
> time had arrived.  I also face this dilemma, which others might  
> have experienced: I rarely work in my home region.  I live in a  
> place that has an opera company, a symphony orchestra, several  
> professional theaters and community theaters, an art museum, a  
> children's museum, a zoo, a university and a community college, and  
> a county library.  I've been profiled several times in the local  
> paper and on both the local PBS tv & radio stations.  Yet, I still  
> have to travel out of town to find any work.
>
> So I've got it in my head to stage a special performance or short  
> series in my little theater and invite all the arts administrators  
> and local movers and shakers in to see it.  Still, they might not  
> come even if they are invited.
>
> Somehow the notion of The Little Players seemed like a good  
> vehicle.  Who were The Little Players exactly?  They were a group  
> of upper middle class folk who staged salon-type programs  
> consisting of music, drama, comedy and of course, backstage  
> problems.  I remember the Standwell husband and wife, their maid  
> Elsie Lump and a friend from France.
>
> I'll let you know what happens.
>
> Robert Rogers
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