Subject: PUPT: RE: Theatrical Puppetry
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 15:40:27 -0400


Forgetting that the Japanese equivalent of Shakespearean drama was written 
for the Bunraku, and that the much of the Wayang dramatises the Ramayana, 
there are Western instances.  Ben Jonson used Lanthorn Leatherhead's show at 
Bartholmew Faire as the center of the climax to that rambling masterpiece.  
The opera in question is "Master Peter's Puppet Show" by De Fala(sic) based 
on a section of Don Quixote.  Handel and Mozart wrote light opera - which 
has not survived - for puppets.  And as the modern theatre is rediscovering, 
there are many ways to achieve unique multi-media effects using puppetry, 
particularly for exposition and transition, as dumbshow, to bring in the 
otherworldly, or to reimagine a scene.  So let;s make more theatre, not 
argue about it.



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