From: Onute Puckoriute <undinele-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: PUPT: I never remember a name,but I ALWAYS forget a face
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 16:32:40 PDT



Hi everybody,

Just a few minutes ago me friend Dainius help me to subscribe to this list.
The first letter I received , has this sentence:
"I never remember a name,but I ALWAYS forget a face"

I never remember the name but I ALWAYS remember a face with a history or 
which is an exeptionaly interesting.

I am visiting my friend in the US. Originaly I am from Lithuania.
I am a profesional actress at the Lithuanian  Puppet Theatre "Lele".
In september will be a 20 yers since I was acting there. Our theatre 
receiving full support from our government and tyhat's why we have a stable 
troupe of 17 actors. Three of us staing in the troup for the 40-th season. I 
hear , there in United states no steady troups. Only
seasonally hired actors.  Please corret me  if I am wrong about it.


I am appologize for my  week english language, but I am very interesting in 
all info about puppets and puppetiers in the US.
Me friend help me to find a lot of web sites with a various  information, a 
lot of theatres all over the states but I can not find anything in Cleveland 
area,where I'm staing now. If anybody have any information about any 
activities in Cleveland, Ohio, please let me know.

After three weeks our theater (7.23) , including me, will perform in Huston 
TX and Chicagho,IL. We will perform "Circus is Circus" (acting in english) 
If some of you  want to see it,or want more info about it I will send you  
more information.
Also if someone of you  live in Huston, TX,  or in Chicago, IL,  you can  
come to our performance.
Please let me know and I write you  an exact dates and stages of our 
performance in those two cities.


Besides acting in the theatre, I also start to create my own monotheatre.  
The first performance was a "Undinele" ("A litte Mermaid") not by the disney 
happy end script but by the original book of H.K.Andersen. in lithuanian 
language.  I was preparing a english version of it but two years ago I was 
invited to  preform in Glover, Vermont (Bread and Puppet Theatre) and I 
changed my mind. I so a lot of english speaking spektakors so exiting about 
this performance in lithuanian language. And I thought the language is not a 
barrier for it.  But now, after I was talking to a lot of american artists, 
most of them try to prove to me - americans can accept only english version 
????
One musician brought an example about  a musician singing in spanish (viva 
locca) but only after he start to sing in english, all country start to 
listen it ???
If any of you can help me to understand american audience, please write to 
me.


I bring with me a few glove (hand?)puppets and before the tour in Texas I 
will perform for lithuanians in one  of the Lithuanian community 
celebrations.

If any of you have any ideas or suggestions or proposals,let me know .
All summer (until july 22 and after august 16) you can reach me in Cleveland 
OH

Sincerely,

Onute Puckoriute









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