(photo: Sidat de Silva)
Looking for a Monster is based on an original puppet play written by a thirteen year old boy, Hanus Hachenburg in the Terezin concentration camp in 1943, shortly before his transportation to the Auschwitz Death Camp. In 1999, puppeteer Gary Friedman discovered the play in a Jerusalem archive. It was performed for […]
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Influence of Royal de Luxe spreads
Posted in puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Jul 14th, 2007
(photo credit: jazamarripae)
It’s interesting when you can see a show like Royal de Luxe having an influence on the culture. I think something like that might have been at work in this dog puppet that was at Barcelona’s Món del llibre, an annual fair to promote book reading/purchasing, oriented towards children. According to […]
Ten Days on Earth: a real treat
Posted in puppetry, puppets, review, theatre on Mar 6th, 2007
(Honeydog awaiting his pink cranberry! waistcoat. Photo credit: Attit Patel, Toronto Life)
I caught Ronnie Burkett’s 10 Days on Earth up in Sydney last week, and it is a real treat. If you get a chance to see it, go!
The story is about Darrel, who is middle-aged and simple. His life revolves around his elderly mother, […]
Ronnie Burkett’s new show 10 Days on Earth is coming to Sydney in from 15 February - 3 March, and there is an early bird special of $38 for tickets bought for any performance from 15th to 20th February (a saving of $10 on a normal adult price). The offer expires at 5pm on Friday […]
Cool photos of Beck
Posted in music, photographs, puppetry, puppets on Sep 30th, 2006
(photo credit: Scott Beale/Laughing Squid)
Laughing Squid is one of my long time favourite blogs; I enjoy the mix of tech and visual arts, and Scott Beale’s photos. Today Scott has the best photos of Beck’s puppets I’ve seen yet, taken at Yahoo! Hack Day.
This is a still from a video of a giant marionette in Reykjavik, Iceland. It’s being operated by three helicopters! There are some other videos here. I can’t find any other information about it, which is strange, but people seem to think it was being filmed as a viral ad for jeans. It makes […]
I found the film Strings, which I saw at the Puppetry Summit, very curious. You can see a trailer here, a stills gallery here, and an article about the puppetry and the making of the movie here. I was intrigued by numerous aspects about the film and the puppetry, but I didn’t enjoy it as […]
I remembered yesterday that the tip about storing marionettes by twirling them so the strings twist up together (in the comments under my last post) came from a lovely book called The Magic of Marionettes by Anne Masson. It was given to one of my kids, but I got a great deal out of it […]
Little Golden Books: Tibor Gergely
Posted in books, illustration on May 4th, 2005
The following illustration is by Tibor Gergely from the Little Golden Book ‘Houses’ by Elsa Jane Werner. I’m posting it as a comparison to the one by Richard Scarry in another Little Golden Book, ‘Cars and Trucks’, over at Wee Wonderfuls. There is an interesting discussion there about how in updates of the book that […]
Antonin Muller and Michela Bartonova from Prague’s renowned Tineola Theatre are making their first Australian visit this year, and they’ll be holding an exclusive puppet carving workshop in March. This is a fantastic opportunity for anyone interested in woodcarving or puppetry to learn from these acclaimed creative artists. The six-day workshop will be held […]