File spoon-archives/puptcrit.archive/puptcrit_2003/puptcrit.0308, message 145


Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 20:04:09 -0400
From: Andrew Periale <perryalley-AT-rscs.net>
Subject: Re: PUPT: Puppet types: names, + Lexicon of puppetry terms


> > I hope more of you will have the opportunity to observe live Bunraku, and
> Vietnamese Water puppetry, and traditional Burattini of Italy for ideas to
> broaden and expand your own work.
>
> Hear, hear! Both for myself and others.
>

And if you can't go see these forms, you can always READ about them in
Puppetry International magazine. To find out more (shameless
self-promotion), go to the UNIMA-USA website:

http://www.unima-usa.org

and go to the publications page.

By the way, the upcoming issue is about Gender. or, as I like to call
it: the SEX issue. If any of you have a show which includes puppet sex,
and you have a good picture of same, we still have a little room for a
brief inclusion, namely, a photo with a paragraph putting the photo into
context-- the why and how of including this material in your show.
please write me off-list.

So, bunraku, shmunraku, nobody took any notice of my "marionnette
portee" proposal. Perhaps it is because there are no well-known French
masters employing this technique by whose very mastery (we hope) our
work might be somehow elevated in our audiences' minds, as when we say:
I do "bunraku-style" puppetry ("Oooo, he must be good!")

Perhaps we should describe our work as "Bunraku LITE!", or "McBunraku."
In fact, it might not be a bad idea to do an  issue of the magazine
called "Bunraku for the Complete Idiot.," in which we showcase every
instance of "bunraku-style" puppetry we can find in order to learn what,
if anything, they have to do with the Japanese classical form. I realize
that this may read as sarcastic, but I actually think it could be
fascinating. After all, WE do "bunraku-style" puppetry . . . well, sort
of.

Andrew Periale
Editor, Puppetry International


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