From: "Mark S. Segal" <segalpuppets-AT-comcast.net>
Subject: Re: PUPT: more on that bunraku theme
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 09:43:36 -0400


I'd describe him as Schwartzian...

:)



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mary Horsley" <mphorsley-AT-earthlink.net>
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Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 8:50 AM
Subject: RE: PUPT: more on that bunraku theme


> So, how would you describe someone like Bruce Schwartz? Bunraku-style?
>
> Mary
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Christopher Hudert <heyhoot-AT-mindspring.com>
> > To: <puptcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
> > Date: 8/8/2003 4:21:50 AM
> > Subject: PUPT: more on that bunraku theme
> >
> > on 8/5/03 8:22 PM, Mary Robinette Kowal at maryrk-AT-earthlink.net wrote:
> >
> > > Actually, Preston, my complaint is that bunraku is three people in
full
> view
> > > manipulating a figure, while a narrator does the voices, working in
> space
> > > rather than on a playboard BUT people use the term to describe one
> puppeteer
> > > in full view working a figure on a playboard.  The only thing the two
> forms
> > > have in common is the visibility of the puppeteer.
> > >
> > > sigh... and I was going to shut up.
> > >
> > > Mary
> > >
> > Funny, I really imagine the term refering to the way the puppets are
> > manipulated (rods and direct manipulation) as much or more than the fact
> > that the puppeteer is visible. Some people work in blacks or the like to
> > maintain some degree of invisiblity, some do not. The puppets place in
> space
> > (playboard or air) is much less relavant to me. And since many (too many
> > IMHO) people work to a tape, that places that aspect closer to the
> narrator
> > that is away from the puppet doing the voices, much like real Bunraku.
But
> > all in all, to me it is the opperation of the puppet that leads me to
> refer
> > to something as modified bunraku style.
> >
> > Christopher
> >
> >
> >
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