Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 15:52:15 +0100
From: MARK POWER <mpower-AT-coventry.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: PUPT: Shameless Self-Promotion




Mary Robinette Kowal wrote:
> 
> Okay, I know you wouldn't think that you could hear a live radio
> broadcast from Portland, OR but thanks to the World Wide Web and
> streaming audio you can! Granted- live radio rarely has puppets in it,
> and this is no exception, but it does have me!
> 
Dear Folks,
Although not really puppet related, I thought I'd take this opportunity
to say hello.  I've just joined the list and appear to have landed in
the middle of  a flamewar, one somehow related to David Mamet.  Luckily,
Mamet hasn't so far being writing the dialogue or it really would get
nasty!  

I used to read the DC Comics version of The Shadow and became hooked,
nay haunted, by the idea of a ruthless, not to say moralistic and
pompous avenger - a bit like a forerunner of The Dark Knight/Batman
comic.  I wonder has anyone done a puppet version of the sinister crime
fighter?

On a puppet note, today's British press carries reviews from  the
Edinburgh Festival of an american troupe performing the fabled Lost
Works of Samuel Becket.  One apparently includes a puppet theatre opus
by the precociously talented 6 year old Sam entitled "Happy Happy Bunny
Visits Sad Sad Owl".  I wondered if anyone has seen this forgotten
master work and, if so, how much does it reveal about the cocerns of the
great dramatists mature period?  To end, I must confess to  being
worried that Becket's famously intolerant estate will learn of the
existence of this e mail and seek to drag me through the courts, Bleak
House style.  Eek!

Regards,
Mark


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