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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:00:59 -0700
Subject: PUPT: Re: PUPPET FEST MIDWEST
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> puptcrit-digest      Sunday, September 29 2002      Volume 01 : Number 1221
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> In this issue:
> =============> 
> "will stackman"        PUPT: RE: Theatrical Puppetry
> Richard Johnson        Re: PUPT: Eureka!
> GAzPuppets-AT-aol.com     PUPT: Searching for info
> "Dave Goboff"          Re: PUPT: Searching for info
> "will stackman"        PUPT: RE: Marionette donation
> Mum Puppettheatre      Re: PUPT: Eureka!
> Mary Robinette Kowal   PUPT: Asking for trouble...
> Evy Berman             PUPT: Re: critics
> Susan Wall Kronenberg  Re: PUPT: Re: critics
> Mary Robinette Kowal   PUPT: Re: Asking for trouble...
> Mary Robinette Kowal   Re: PUPT: Re: critics
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 15:40:27 -0400
> From: "will stackman" <profwill66-AT-hotmail.com>
> Subject: PUPT: RE: Theatrical Puppetry
> 
> 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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> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 17:07:28 -0400
> From: Richard Johnson <djdick-AT-gsvms2.cc.gasou.edu>
> 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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> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 20:56:55 EDT
> From: GAzPuppets-AT-aol.com
> Subject: PUPT: Searching for info
> 
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> Northern Arizona University in northern Arizona gave us 4 large boxes of
> marionettes and some typewritten scripts to go with them.  All they knew was
> that they had been donated to them.  The only names I've found on the papers
> are:
> 
> On scripts:
> Mary Jean Ganton
> Jean Bauer
> Margaret Burns
> Stensgaard Puppets, Los Angeles, CA (at the bottom of 1 script)
> Grace Barnes
> 
> On a program for English I classes:
> Mrs. M. J. Sutcliffe
> Dorothy Hiratsuka
> Clifford Woodward
> Dan Al Porto
> Jerry VonderAhe
> Elgie Harrison
> Conchita Bondoc
> Richard Welches
> Margaret Soderstrom
> Wanda Wallin
> Hugh Peterson
> Joan Hobbs
> Ramona Lumnsford
> Helena Somerhalder
> Joann Lucido
> Niiyama Shigeru
> Jack Ladd
> Howard Bloomfield
> Ray McClendon
> Donald Lee
> Adeline DeJesus
> 
> On an envelope from Grace Barnes of Manhattan Beach, CA postmarked Feb 14,
> 1968:
> Mrs. Paul E. Weaver, Jr., Flagstaff, Arizona
> 
> 
> Some of the puppets have nice heads and costumes and good knee joints,
> although nothing is even close to "mint."  Some of the heads are beautifully
> painted but others are pretty crude.  Some have an elbow joint; others have a
> one-piece arm that curves slightly.  Most of them have hands made from wire,
> wrapped with adhesive tape.  (ycch)  Heads are made from solid clay, or
> plaster bandage or wood.  Bodies are wood and cloth.  They have very long
> strings, attached to two same-sized dowels with notches carved in them to
> keep the strings separate.  The dowels were not attached to each other.  I
> can't imagine operating them.
> 
> Anybody know anything about any of these people?
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> Nancy Smith
> Great Arizona Puppet Theater
> 
> 
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> <HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT  SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial"
> LANG="0">Northern Arizona University in northern Arizona gave us 4 large boxes
> of marionettes and some typewritten scripts to go with them.  All they
> knew was that they had been donated to them.  The only names I've found
> on the papers are:<BR>
> <BR>
> On scripts:<BR>
> Mary Jean Ganton<BR>
> Jean Bauer<BR>
> Margaret Burns<BR>
> Stensgaard Puppets, Los Angeles, CA (at the bottom of 1 script)<BR>
> Grace Barnes<BR>
> <BR>
> On a program for English I classes:<BR>
> Mrs. M. J. Sutcliffe<BR>
> Dorothy Hiratsuka<BR>
> Clifford Woodward<BR>
> Dan Al Porto<BR>
> Jerry VonderAhe<BR>
> Elgie Harrison<BR>
> Conchita Bondoc<BR>
> Richard Welches<BR>
> Margaret Soderstrom<BR>
> Wanda Wallin<BR>
> Hugh Peterson<BR>
> Joan Hobbs<BR>
> Ramona Lumnsford<BR>
> Helena Somerhalder<BR>
> Joann Lucido<BR>
> Niiyama Shigeru<BR>
> Jack Ladd<BR>
> Howard Bloomfield<BR>
> Ray McClendon<BR>
> Donald Lee<BR>
> Adeline DeJesus<BR>
> <BR>
> On an envelope from Grace Barnes of Manhattan Beach, CA postmarked Feb 14,
> 1968:<BR>
> Mrs. Paul E. Weaver, Jr., Flagstaff, Arizona<BR>
> <BR>
> <BR>
> Some of the puppets have nice heads and costumes and good knee joints,
> although nothing is even close to "mint."  Some of the heads are
> beautifully painted but others are pretty crude.  Some have an elbow
> joint; others have a one-piece arm that curves slightly.  Most of them
> have hands made from wire, wrapped with adhesive tape.  (ycch) 
> Heads are made from solid clay, or plaster bandage or wood.  Bodies are
> wood and cloth.  They have very long strings, attached to two same-sized
> dowels with notches carved in them to keep the strings separate.  The
> dowels were not attached to each other.  I can't imagine operating
> them.  <BR>
> <BR>
> Anybody know anything about any of these people? <BR>
> <BR>
> Thanks for your help!<BR>
> <BR>
> Nancy Smith<BR>
> Great Arizona Puppet Theater<BR>
> </FONT></HTML>
> 
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> 
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> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 22:22:08 -0400
> From: "Dave Goboff" <davego167-AT-hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: PUPT: Searching for info
> 
> <html><div style='background-color:'><DIV>
> <P>Here's a longshot but a quick google search on Hiratsuka and puppet turned
> up 
> this:<BR>---------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------</P>
> <P><A 
> href="http://www2.gol.com/users/csr-kts/hiratsuka/lawrence/H-Lhistory.html">ht
> tp://www2.gol.com/users/csr-kts/hiratsuka/lawrence/H-Lhistory.html</A></P>
> <P>The Hiratsuka Puppet Theatre troupe has twice brought programs to Lawrence
> and Kansas City, and KU theater students performed a Japanese <EM>kyogen</EM>
> play in Hiratsuka. (For further information about the theater exchange call <A
> href="mailto:atsubaki-AT-falcon.cc.ukans.edu">Andrew Tsubaki</A> at (913)
> 864-3534, 842-3923.</P>
> <P>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------</P>
> <P>Perhaps Dorothy Hiratsuka came from that city in Japan?</P>
> <P>dg<BR><BR></P></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV><BR><BR><BR>
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> <DIV></DIV>----Original Message Follows----
> <DIV></DIV>From: GAzPuppets-AT-aol.com
> <DIV></DIV>Reply-To: puptcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> <DIV></DIV>To: puptcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> <DIV></DIV>Subject: PUPT: Searching for info
> <DIV></DIV>Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 20:56:55 EDT
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>Northern Arizona University in northern Arizona gave us 4 large
> boxes of 
> <DIV></DIV>marionettes and some typewritten scripts to go with them. All they
> knew was 
> <DIV></DIV>that they had been donated to them. The only names I've found on
> the papers 
> <DIV></DIV>are: 
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>On scripts:
> <DIV></DIV>Mary Jean Ganton
> <DIV></DIV>Jean Bauer
> <DIV></DIV>Margaret Burns
> <DIV></DIV>Stensgaard Puppets, Los Angeles, CA (at the bottom of 1 script)
> <DIV></DIV>Grace Barnes
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>On a program for English I classes:
> <DIV></DIV>Mrs. M. J. Sutcliffe
> <DIV></DIV>Dorothy Hiratsuka
> <DIV></DIV>Clifford Woodward
> <DIV></DIV>Dan Al Porto
> <DIV></DIV>Jerry VonderAhe
> <DIV></DIV>Elgie Harrison
> <DIV></DIV>Conchita Bondoc
> <DIV></DIV>Richard Welches
> <DIV></DIV>Margaret Soderstrom
> <DIV></DIV>Wanda Wallin
> <DIV></DIV>Hugh Peterson
> <DIV></DIV>Joan Hobbs
> <DIV></DIV>Ramona Lumnsford
> <DIV></DIV>Helena Somerhalder
> <DIV></DIV>Joann Lucido
> <DIV></DIV>Niiyama Shigeru
> <DIV></DIV>Jack Ladd
> <DIV></DIV>Howard Bloomfield
> <DIV></DIV>Ray McClendon
> <DIV></DIV>Donald Lee
> <DIV></DIV>Adeline DeJesus
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>On an envelope from Grace Barnes of Manhattan Beach, CA postmarked
> Feb 14, 
> <DIV></DIV>1968: 
> <DIV></DIV>Mrs. Paul E. Weaver, Jr., Flagstaff, Arizona
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>Some of the puppets have nice heads and costumes and good knee
> joints, 
> <DIV></DIV>although nothing is even close to "mint." Some of the heads are
> beautifully 
> <DIV></DIV>painted but others are pretty crude. Some have an elbow joint;
> others have a 
> <DIV></DIV>one-piece arm that curves slightly. Most of them have hands made
> from wire, 
> <DIV></DIV>wrapped with adhesive tape. (ycch) Heads are made from solid clay,
> or 
> <DIV></DIV>plaster bandage or wood. Bodies are wood and cloth. They have very
> long 
> <DIV></DIV>strings, attached to two same-sized dowels with notches carved in
> them to 
> <DIV></DIV>keep the strings separate. The dowels were not attached to each
> other. I 
> <DIV></DIV>can't imagine operating them.
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>Anybody know anything about any of these people?
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>Thanks for your help!
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>Nancy Smith
> <DIV></DIV>Great Arizona Puppet Theater
> <DIV></DIV>
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> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 12:11:45 -0400
> From: "will stackman" <profwill66-AT-hotmail.com>
> Subject: PUPT: RE: Marionette donation
> 
> The controls on the marionettes donated to Greater Arizona suggest someone
> from the English tradition was involved.  Traveling showmen used double
> dowel controls to make things easier to pack.  They can be surprisingly
> effective and may have been adapted from a South East Asian form brought
> back in the days of the Empire.
> 
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> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 00:41:38 -0400
> From: Mum Puppettheatre <info-AT-mumpuppet.org>
> Subject: Re: PUPT: Eureka!
> 
>> And one caveat-- what does it say about us if we look down upon our
>> audiences from our lofty level and expect them to rise to our exalted view?
> 
> I, for one, believe that it doesn't assume that someone at a "lofty
> level" has nothing in common with their audience. Your statement,
> Alice, seems to say that, automatically, audiences are not already
> raised up. I find it somewhat patronizing. I never think that
> audiences need to "rise to my exalted view." I expect to find them
> there, and voila! there they are.
> 
> Why inject this air of classism?
> 
> Rober Smythe
> 
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> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 00:40:21 -0700
> From: Mary Robinette Kowal <mary-AT-otherhandproductions.com>
> Subject: PUPT: Asking for trouble...
> 
> I'll probably regret this, but- I need a puppet head of me.  We've got a
> version of "Pinocchio" in which I play the Blue Fairy as an actor.  At
> one point in the show Pinocchio carves a puppet of the Blue Fairy.  I
> hate the thing I've made.
> 
> So- what I'm looking for is someone who can match the style of the rest
> of the puppets in the show AND stylize my face to match.  I only need
> the head.  Photos of the show are at
> http://www.otherhandproductions.com/pinocchio.
> 
> If you are remotely interested e-mail me off-list and we'll talk.  If
> you'd like to mock me for being unable to sculpt myself then use the
> public forum.  This has got to be good for some humor.
> 
> Mary
> - -- 
> Mary Robinette Kowal
> Other Hand Productions
> http://www.otherhandproductions.com
> 
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> 
> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 22:25:55 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Evy Berman <evyberman-AT-yahoo.com>
> Subject: PUPT: Re: critics
> 
> I think that my favorite objection to one of our shows was from
> a mom wanting to book a birthday party. While pitching "Frog &
> Jenny" (target audience - preschoolers thru age 8, perhaps the
> most non-offensive show ever built but still stomachable by
> adults) I told her that Jenny, bored with waiting for a fish at
> her fishing hole, pretends that it is a magic fishing hole. The
> kids then get to say the magic words with Jenny and help her
> fish for what they wish for. The parent was concerned that it
> would teach her kids that magic/dark arts was acceptable and did
> not book the show. In her defense, it went against their
> religion. In my defense, I didn't cut the magic fishing hole.
> 
> Oh, and incidentally, I also lost a booking once because the
> parent thought that the concept of "Frog & Jenny" would be above
> her three-year-old's head. Oh, how I pity that child. To think
> that in high school she'll still be pinning notes to his chest
> to remind him to return his library books. (MY mom only had to
> do that until I was seven, but then I was a prodigy.)
> 
> - -Evy
> 
> __________________________________________________
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> 
> Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 09:20:00 -0400
> From: Susan Wall Kronenberg <susan-AT-carouselpuppets.com>
> Subject: Re: PUPT: Re: critics
> 
> When I started doing b'day shows in NYC, I was surprised that, for the most
> part,  the only ones that ever booked were mothers of 2 year olds.  Now
> this show was targeted for kids 2 - 7.  When I asked why they didn't book
> for their older kids, I was informed that the 3 & 4's were much too
> sophisticated for puppet shows.  Thank goodness that here in Virginia, the
> kids aren't that sophisticated.
> 
> Susan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> Oh, and incidentally, I also lost a booking once because the
>> parent thought that the concept of "Frog & Jenny" would be above
>> her three-year-old's head. Oh, how I pity that child. To think
>> that in high school she'll still be pinning notes to his chest
>> to remind him to return his library books. (MY mom only had to
>> do that until I was seven, but then I was a prodigy.)
>> 
>> -Evy
>> 
>> __________________________________________________
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> 
> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 13:59:52 -0700
> From: Mary Robinette Kowal <mary-AT-otherhandproductions.com>
> Subject: PUPT: Re: Asking for trouble...
> 
> Hmm... I apparently can't type either.
> 
> The correct URL is:
> 
> http://www.otherhandproductions.com/pinocchio.html
> 
> Mary
> 
> Mary Robinette Kowal wrote:
>> 
>> I'll probably regret this, but- I need a puppet head of me.  We've got a
>> version of "Pinocchio" in which I play the Blue Fairy as an actor.  At
>> one point in the show Pinocchio carves a puppet of the Blue Fairy.  I
>> hate the thing I've made.
>> 
>> So- what I'm looking for is someone who can match the style of the rest
>> of the puppets in the show AND stylize my face to match.  I only need
>> the head.  Photos of the show are at
>> http://www.otherhandproductions.com/pinocchio.
>> 
>> If you are remotely interested e-mail me off-list and we'll talk.  If
>> you'd like to mock me for being unable to sculpt myself then use the
>> public forum.  This has got to be good for some humor.
>> 
>> Mary
>> --
>> Mary Robinette Kowal
>> Other Hand Productions
>> http://www.otherhandproductions.com
> 
> - -- 
> Mary Robinette Kowal
> Other Hand Productions
> http://www.otherhandproductions.com
> 
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> 
> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 23:24:18 -0700
> From: Mary Robinette Kowal <mary-AT-otherhandproductions.com>
> Subject: Re: PUPT: Re: critics
> 
> Oh let's veer off on a tangent.  How about favorite stupid things the
> contacts say.
> 
> For instance:
> We arrived at a school who's stage was too small to put our set up on.
> So we asked if we could set up at the opposite end of the room.  The
> contact agreed and then said, "Now, we normally have the children facing
> this way " she pointed to their stage, "Do you think it would be better
> if they faced the other way?"
> 
> Evy Berman wrote:
>> 
>> I think that my favorite objection to one of our shows was from
>> a mom wanting to book a birthday party. While pitching "Frog &
>> Jenny" (target audience - preschoolers thru age 8, perhaps the
>> most non-offensive show ever built but still stomachable by
>> adults) I told her that Jenny, bored with waiting for a fish at
>> her fishing hole, pretends that it is a magic fishing hole. The
>> kids then get to say the magic words with Jenny and help her
>> fish for what they wish for. The parent was concerned that it
>> would teach her kids that magic/dark arts was acceptable and did
>> not book the show. In her defense, it went against their
>> religion. In my defense, I didn't cut the magic fishing hole.
>> 
>> Oh, and incidentally, I also lost a booking once because the
>> parent thought that the concept of "Frog & Jenny" would be above
>> her three-year-old's head. Oh, how I pity that child. To think
>> that in high school she'll still be pinning notes to his chest
>> to remind him to return his library books. (MY mom only had to
>> do that until I was seven, but then I was a prodigy.)
>> 
>> -Evy
>> 
>> __________________________________________________
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>> New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo!
>> http://sbc.yahoo.com
>> 
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> - -- 
> Mary Robinette Kowal
> Other Hand Productions
> http://www.otherhandproductions.com
> 
> 
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