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Pouty, Beauregard, and Gruffles from my one act play Puppet Play being produced by Meadow Brook Theatre in Michigan.
No Strings Attached @ Meadow Brook Theatre: A Night of Comedy!
Featuring the original works:
"Puppet Play" by Robert Bruce "Bo" Anderson
"The Macbirdged Mactragedy of Macbeth" by Klaire Pearson
Featuring the talents of:
Anne Marie Damman; Casey S. Hibbert; Will Luchin; Christopher J. Neville; Eric B. Niece; Michele Peters; Kristin Schultes; PJ Vasquez
Monday, March 22, 2010 @ 7pm
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 @ 7pm
The above photograph was inspired with a theme of conformity. Often in life we feel like we are being controlled in everything we do just like a puppet on strings. We are then lead to believe that we need these strings to survive in society. I've used the colour red on her shoes and lips to symbolise unity and individuality. I have then enhanced the colour red on her lips and the lighting to help strengthen my ideas and hence fit the manipulated category.
Bob Walls, puppeteer extraordinaire, and his hand- carved, beautifully costumed Stevens Puppets Marionettes take us to the magical, beautiful, and dangerous land of Oz in this fantasy adventure for the whole family.
It is very common to find some #puppets stores in Prague. The art of making them goes back to the 18th century.
Mark ‘Spoonman’ Petrakis and I are developing a shadow puppet show we call ‘Ubu’s Dreams’.
This short series of sketches stars Père Ubu, the hero of french poet Alfred Jarry’s surreal plays. In this show, Ubu is constantly dreaming, playing with archetypal characters from our collective unconscious.
For this project, we are creating a variety of wooden figures with a laser cutter: big faces, music notes, dancers, trees and graveyards, to name but a few. We then tape our puppets on wooden sticks, and wave them across the stage to bring them to life, with a projector over our heads.
We plan to continue this experiment through the summer and perform a first puppet show during our Dada exhibit at the Canessa Gallery in North Beach, from Nov. 3 to 12, 2016.
I also plan to use some of these techniques with our lower and middle school students, for the Maker Art courses I will be teaching this fall.
From shadow puppets to poetic robots, these interactive storytelling experiments have the potential to engage us at a deeper level and help us learn more about ourselves.
View more pictures of this Magic Theater project on Flickr:
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Learn more about Ubu’s Dreams:
Learn more about the Magic Theater project (originally called Théâtre Mécanique):
Birthday Party dress cut shorter, with front pleated section converted into a non-pleated section. Shorts are my all-time favorite puppet show
Company: ????
Set: Puppet Plush
Year: ????
Size: Large
Made in: Japan
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These highly articulate puppets have been designed by Folded Feather specifically for teaching ensemble puppetry performance (Bunraku). All methods of construction and in particular moving joints are visible so students may also learn puppet construction both traditional and innovative. Customized teaching puppets are available by order, please contact Oliver foldedfeather@gmail.com
These highly articulate puppets have been designed by Folded Feather specifically for teaching ensemble puppetry performance (Bunraku). All methods of construction and in particular moving joints are visible so students may also learn puppet construction both traditional and innovative. Customized teaching puppets are available by order, please contact Oliver foldedfeather@gmail.com
Puppet child Cendhikia Ishmatuka Srihascryasmoro (7) performs with a traditional shadow puppet in Solo. Indonesia's shadow puppetry performances are steeped in tradition, Shadow puppetry, or wayang, has been drawing crowds for over half a millennium with its distinctly Indonesian music, intricately carved protagonists, riot of colour and plots based on ancient fables with their moral messages or stories from religious texts such as the Ramayana
Wayang Kulit in Central Java Indonesia is probably one of the oldest continuous traditions of storytelling in the world, and certainly among the most highly developed, The wayang is a flat or round puppets used for shows in Java.The wayang kulit is the flat one and it is made with buffalo leather. They are maipulated behind a white screen with a back light, so the attendance can see them as shadow puppets. The puppets are stored in line, in a banana tree trunk, behind the screen and in front of the puppeter.
The puppeter is called the dalang.
more picture and story:
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This papercraft is a Princess Puppet, created by ABC.
You can download this papercraft template here: Princess Puppet Free Papercraft Download [Box] [Gavitex] [Ge.tt]
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handmade puppets, displayed for sale, in the streets of jaisalmer. puppet characters are generally made and decorated according to legendary stories of kings & queen, though there are animal like crocodile, camel & some birds too.
see more CRAFTs here.
unique parade of large handmade puppets. These were made by high school students from around Vermont. Not the usual parade, loved it!
Bob Walls, puppeteer extraordinaire, and his hand- carved, beautifully costumed Stevens Puppets Marionettes take us to the magical, beautiful, and dangerous land of Oz in this fantasy adventure for the whole family.
Some weird guy sitting nearby before the parade was doing a little puppet show to nobody in particular.
Called "marionette show" in ancient China, a puppet show is a theatre performance in which puppet figures are made to move by puppeteers pulling strings or by putting their hands inside them.
In China, the origin of puppets dates back to the Shang Dynasty, when the custom of burying slaves alive with their deceased masters was practiced. Of the 3,000 funeral objects excavated from the Yin Ruins in Anyang City, there are pottery figurines of slaves with cangues. In the Warring States Period, there appeared entertaining figurines used in story-telling and singing performances as props. And such art forms became popular. After the Han Dynasty, a puppet show gradually developed into a folk art combining opera, literature, sculpture and painting that appealed to both humans and divinities.
During the Three Kingdoms Period, there were "water-driven one hundred play" featuring exquisitely-made puppets performing humanlike singing, dancing and acrobatics. In the Song Dynasty, puppet shows enjoyed an unprecedented boom, with a wide variety of puppet types used in the plays, including string puppets, rod puppets, water puppets, pyrotechnic puppets, iron stick puppets, glove puppets and flesh puppets etc.
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, puppet plays caught on in all areas. By integrating with local operas, various kinds of regional puppet plays came into being, such as Heyang string puppet play of Shaanxi and Zhangzhou glove puppet play of Fujian. Puppet shows also advanced with the times. After the movie came into being, they found their way into the movie field, creating increasing impact of puppet shows.
In former times, a puppet show was one of the most popular entertaining art forms among ordinary people. Such shows were usually staged on occasions like sacrificial rituals and festive banquets, adding color to people's life. In modern times, however, puppet shows suffered decline due to war chaos. But they caught on again shortly after the war.
After 1949, except for a handful of private puppet troupes, most others were restructured as government-funded troupes. While retaining traditional plays, these puppet troupes created a large number of modern plays, also known as "civilized new plays".
Puppet designed and built by students during The Swazzle Workshop Live school assembly program. For more, click here:http://swazzle.com/swazzleworkshoplive.html
Trip to Fairyland. Perfect day :)
"Puppets draw crowds to Oakland's Ferry Land for over 50 years
Oakland Tribune, Feb 26, 2004 by Kathleen Grant Geib, STAFF WRITER
RANDAL J. Metz's history of puppetry at Children's Fairyland in Oakland reads like a who's who of puppeteers in America.
It's also a terrific introduction to the world of puppets, particularly the world that has existed on the shores of Lake Merritt for more than half a century.
"Storybook Strings: 50 Years of Puppetry at Children's Fairyland's Storybook Puppet Theater" (Rappid Rabbit Publishing, $19.95) is as much a visual history of puppetry as a written one. More than half of Metz's book is dedicated to lively black-and-white photos of puppet shows, puppeteers and theater directors.
Metz's book also contains early Fairyland photos. You can view architect William Russell Everritt's models of Fairyland sets and a photo of William Penn Mott Jr. and Arthur E. Navlet, the creative minds behind Fairyland.
Metz describes Fairyland as a fun, accessible family park from the moment it opens in 1950. Even before the Storybook Puppet Theater is completed in 1956, puppet shows prove to be Fairyland's most popular entertainment. Metz describes the park as a magnet for the Bay Area's talented puppeteers.
Early puppet shows are presented by influential artists Ralph Chesse and Lettie Connell Schubert. Schubert is also particularly active in the early years of the San Francisco Bay Area Puppeteers Guild (SFBAPG).
Frank and Dorothy Hayward and Bruce Sedley also provide puppet shows at Fairyland in the early '50s. The Haywards' shows are part magic, part puppet-and-marionette shows, and Metz describes Frank as a gifted magician.
Hayward and Sedley
Upon completion of Storybook Theater, the Haywards are named puppet theater directors. Unfortunately, Frank suffers a fatal heart attack shortly after, leaving Dorothy both sole director and new mother.
In recognition for the theatrical support she receives from SFBAPG members after Frank's passing, Dorothy co-creates the San Francisco Bay Area Puppet Fair, an annual gathering of puppeteers at Fairyland.
Sedley, another early puppeteer, is famous at Fairyland not only for his sidekick King Fuddle, a ventriloquist puppet with whom he hosts cartoon shows on television, but also as creator of the Children's Fairyland Story-
book Magic Key.
Sedley's key idea begins when the puppeteer announces, on his television show, tours of Fairyland sets with King Fuddle. The puppeteer expects a few kids, but as the tours become popular, Sedley fears he will lose his voice from telling so many stories. Instead, he develops the idea of a Magic Key that kids insert into a "Talking Storybook" at each set, allowing them to listen to a story or song.
You can almost hear Metz's glee when he says Sedley's idea is still used in zoos and kids parks around the world. You never know what will emerge from the world of puppets, he seems to say.
Urbano and Coad
After Hayward retires as puppet theater director in 1959, handsome and talented Tony Urbano is appointed. Metz includes a photo of Urbano posing with his marionette, Prince Charming. It's uncanny how much they look alike.
Metz describes Urbano as a natural puppeteer who, as a youth, is fortunate enough to work with both Chesse and Schubert. After a stint in the armed forces, Urbano returns to Fairyland and works with Hayward and a young Frank Oz, of Muppets fame.
Unfortunately, Urbano's love of theater leaves him overworked, and in 1962 he bids farewell to Fairyland. The puppeteer's eclectic career includes television ads starring Snuggle Bear and the Parkay Tub and work in both "Men In Black" films. more>>