Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
Posted in UNIMA, creatures, mask, performance art, puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Apr 7th, 2008
A mindblowing day at the puppet carnival: see my Flickr photoset for heaps more photos; I’ve just chosen a few here. Also Naomi and Gary have more, too, each a different take :). As far as I can see its just the three of us blogging from Unima 2008.
Cheryl Linnaker’s Yawaru gecko
Joan Baixas’ masterclass present [...]
Posted in UNIMA, creatures, fun, mask, puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Apr 4th, 2008
Students from the Edith Cowan University Contemporary Performers Group, lead by Deborah Hunt entertained the lunchtime crowds in James Place, Perth, yesterday, as part of the UNIMA Worl Puppetry Festival. These made my day! By chance there was a busker playing, and they worked their activities in around what he was playing.
More photos in my [...]
Posted in environment, politics, puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Nov 13th, 2007
The Walk against Warming on Sunday drew about 9000 people in Canberra. It felt substantially bigger than last year. As yet neither of the major parties are addressing the issue with the seriousness it deserves, which has surprised me in a way. I thought it might be the clincher issue for a Labor victory. [...]
Posted in make, puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Nov 3rd, 2007
A thread on Star Wars Crafts documents the making of a cool giant Jabba the Hutt parade puppet. This photo is from about midway through the process, before it is skinned. It’s made from all kinds of things that I am very familiar with working with - mattress foam, irrigation pipe, tons of hot [...]
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 [...]
Posted in puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Feb 16th, 2007
Today I came across this photo of a giant boy marionette, taken in Sydney’s CBD in late January. It’s very much like Royal de Luxe’s little giantess (who has been visiting Santiago, Chile, in the company of a rhinoceros) but I doubt he is theirs. Does anyone know the film company, or what production they [...]
Posted in puppetry, puppets, street theatre, video on Jan 4th, 2007
Two video clips at YouTube of that cool puppet in Berlin that I blogged about in October!
Puppet Run
Titere Andante
Still no clue as to who the performer group is.
Posted in puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Oct 6th, 2006
(photo credit: irlLordy, used with permission - thanks!)
irlLordy took a great sequence (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) of photos of a cool puppet entertaining the queue on the steps of the Reichstag in Berlin recently. I really like the aethetic, and it’s interesting to see a bunraku-style puppet being operated on such long rods. The [...]
Posted in puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Sep 29th, 2006
I’ve been keeping a list of Royal de Luxe links since I first became aware of them last June. This weekend I believe The Sultan’s Elephant is in Calais, and then in La Havre at the end of October (26 - 29th).
The producers who brought The Sultan’s Elephant to London in June this year [...]
Posted in puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Jul 18th, 2006
As I hoped out loud, Andrew at PuppetVision took some great photos of Sau’rus when they were in Toronto.There are some cool preparation shots there, as well as ones of the performance. Thanks, Andrew. I particularly like this one as a picture, because the letters on the shop suggest “Sau’rus”. Its a bit like that [...]