Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 17:07:28 -0400
Subject: Re: PUPT: Eureka!


At 12:11 PM 9/27/02 -0700, you wrote:
>>>Let's name all the puppet scripts that are now
>regarded as great literature:  Pencils ready? Go! 
>Thanks for the challenge of thinking up great puppet
>literature.
>Three came to mind, "Ubu Roi", "Doctor Faustus", and
>"Equus".

I did _Blood Wedding_ as a puppet show. The Moon and Death were Bunraku
style puppets with two operators each.  As the "meat" characters entered
and exited each was put on stage by a "puppeteer" and taken off the same
way..  These characters were kept on a "rack" off stage but within (at
least partial) audience view.
I don't know if it classifies as "Great Literature" but the Puppetry Center
in Atlanta did a really impressive _Dracula_ in which the vampires were all
Bunraku style puppets and when Lucy, for instance, is first bitten and
becoming a vampire, a puppeteer suddenly appeared at her side and stayed
ther until she became a
Puppet/vampire.
Richard B. Johnson, (djdick-AT-PuppenRich.com)
Husband, Father, Grandfather, Puppeteer, Playwright, Writer, Director,
Actor, Thingmaker, Mormon, Person, Fool.
I sometimes think that the last persona is the most important
http://www.PuppenRich.com


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