From: "Mark Levenson" <markl-AT-levenson.com> Subject: Re: Vietnamese Water Puppets Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 13:09:59 -0700 if you're talking about the design (as opposed to the construction) of the heads, then there are quite a few books that can help. The Bil Baird book The Art of the Puppet has enough of the Cruikshank drawings and other figures that it can give you a pretty good idea. It's also possible to find freestanding publications of the traditional play with those same drawings (often called "The Tragical Comedy of Comical Tragedy of Punch and Judy"). Also, the Robert Leach book The Punch and Judy Show (1985 Univ of Ga. Press) and George Speight's History of the English Puppet Theatre and his Punch and Judy (an expanded version of the material in the first book) have plenty of illustrations. My first Punch puppets were modeled after illustrations in an eccentric little book called Punch and Judy: A Play for Puppets by Ed Emberley (1965, Little Brown) which can sometimes be found in used bookstores. I believe the P of A store still sells Sidney De Hempsey's How to Do Punch and Judy, which illustrates the figures. As for construction -- the simplest may be direct-modeled paper mache (you can even use a commercial paper mache compound like celluclay, with newspaper balls or balloons for the base). If you're into soft-sculpture and sewing, the heads can be made of cloth, although this is less traditional. (Carved wood is the tradition, but hardly simple.) Mark Levenson markl-AT-levenson.com ---------- > From: Jen Waldman <k96jw01-AT-cc.kzoo.edu> > To: puptcrit-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU > Subject: Re: Vietnamese Water Puppets > Date: Sunday, June 01, 1997 9:43 AM > > Thank you for the help on my paper. I did find the article which John > Bell mentioned and I found some more information than I originally > thought I had. I am done with the paper now. > > I do have a new question, though-- Who knows how to make simple (and they > can be crude) Punch and Judy heads? I have to make simple renditions of > Punch and Judy for a play and I can do the bodies, but not the heads. Any > info would help. > Thanks, > Jen > > **************************************************************************** *** > If you have no voice, scream; > If you have no legs, run; > If you have no hope, invent > **************************************************************************** *** > > > On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, John Bell wrote: > > > There is an article on Vietnamese Water Puppets by Tran Van Khe in the > > journal _Asian Art and Culture_. I don't have the exact date, > > unfortunately, but I believe it is 1994 or 1995. > > > > John Bell > > > > > > > > > > --- Personal replies to: John Bell <bellj-AT-is3.nyu.edu> > > --- List replies to: puptcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu > > --- Admin commands to: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu > > > > > > --- Personal replies to: Jen Waldman <k96jw01-AT-cc.kzoo.edu> > --- List replies to: puptcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu > --- Admin commands to: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- Personal replies to: "Mark Levenson" <markl-AT-levenson.com> --- List replies to: puptcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- Admin commands to: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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