File spoon-archives/puptcrit.archive/puptcrit_1997/97-03-11.140, message 151


From: "Mark Levenson" <markl-AT-levenson.com>
Subject: Re: Punch variations
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 17:28:40 -0800


> From: Martha Dowling <marti-AT-jax-inter.net>
> To: puptcrit-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
> Subject: Re: Punch variations
> Date: Thursday, February 27, 1997 4:21 PM
> This is marvelous and what I've been wishing I had the nerve to ask about
> for quite a while-
> I thank you very much for sharing your experience, which is something
that
> can't be bought, sold or had in any way but to live it. Yet you share it
> willingly with a novice. 
> Thank You.
> Marti Dowling
> Jacksonville, Florida

you're welcome.  freshwater is quite right about the literary basis of the
collier script, and i can understand contemporary punchmen not wanting to
minimize the size and value of their own contribution to the tradition. 
however, my impression is that the collier script has been published more
often than all other scripts combined, which demonstrates its popularity. 
and the majority of punch performances do follow the same basic plot and
cast that is recorded/invented by collier (with, of course, innovations,
deletions and evolutions).  if you like punch, by all means be at the
toledo festival when punchman extraordinaire John Styles is scheduled to
perform.  his show is comedy, magic and ballet all in one.  not to be
missed.

mark levenson
markl-AT-levenson.com


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