From: "Krefting family" <kreftingfamily-AT-msn.com>
Subject: RE: PUPT: Puppetry Critiscm
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 21:14:10 -0500


>   And Gertrude Stein wrote a puppet play!

"This is why I wrote back...did you ever hear the quote from G Stein??? I
happen to love
it. When asked if she ever wrote a play for puppets before, she said, "no,
so I shall
write the very best one!" Never read her plays but do like the quote."


Well, now there's something I can sort of react to.  I've been following the
Mamet cum adult/children theatre/puppetry cum Puppethead sort of discussion.
Or rather, I've been feeling like I'm a stone skipping across the water,
catch some it, a bunch whips right by, catch some of it, a bunch whips right
by . . . (you get the idea).

At any rate, I have read Stein's puppet play, and the other commentary she
wrote relevent to the play.  The whole was fascinating and one of those
pieces of writing that you need to stop every few words to digest the
meaning and implications of (which works well, anyway, given the way Ms
Stein wrote).  However, having read somewhere (perhaps among Burr
Tillstrom's early theatre comments), that the play was actually performed, I
am a bit at a loss to really "see" this being performed (I'd like to be the
dog, though).

Anyone either seen it done, or read about it somewhere?  I'd be interested
in reading more.

Wayne Krefting
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