Puppetry. History Not certain but puppetry is said to have started in the far east. Used to tell...
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- Puppetry
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- History Not certain but puppetry is said to have started in the
far east. Used to tell traditional stories but with a real element
of entertainment Indonesians used wayang shadow puppets to tell
their stories. Shows opened with speech from a holy person and
continued to be serious. Bunraku puppets later developed in Japan
to replace human actors on stage. Each had three operators in plain
sight but dressed in completely black. Also popular in Europe,
using them to act out morality plays. By the 19 th century, Pietro
Radillo upgraded puppets from two strings and a rod to as many as
eight strings allowing more control and believability
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- Hand.. Most simple is hand Often made from fabric Inside
compartment for movable jaw Sock puppets More complex Inside
compartment for head and arms Well-known glove puppets sooty and
sweep 17 th century China..and Glove Puppets
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- Rod Puppets Manipulated with wooden or wire rods. Hinged mouths
or fixed facial expressions Rods are attached to arms and hands,
allowing them to move Only the top half of the body. Some have
dangling legs Rod and Glove Puppets Combination Feature a central
rod. Arms and hands controlled by puppeteers fingers
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- Shona Reppe Studied Theatre and History of Art at Glasgow
University (graduating 1991) Also attended the Welsh College of
Drama in Cardiff and The London School of Puppetry Established
Shona Reppe Puppets in 1996 Dedicated to creating small scale
theatre for children and their families Early work included The
Elves and the Shoemaker (1996) and Tom Thumb (2000) Cinderella
(2002) Total Theatre Award winner 2002 Toured all over the world in
a variety of venues Later works include The Ugly Duckling and
Potato Needs a Bath Future work includes Huff, an art installation
for children, based on The Three Little Pigs
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- The Little Angel Theatre Established in 1961 Islington-based
100 seat theatre stands next to the workshop where all puppets are
developed. Produce own shows which play in-house and tour
nationally and internationally. Welcome other companies to perform
on their stage Puppetry training
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- Shadow puppets
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- History More than 2000 years ago, a famous emperors concubine
(lover) in china died of an illness; the emperor missed her so much
that he lost his desire to rule. One day, a minister (head of
government) saw children playing with dolls where the shadows on
the floor were rich. Inspired by this scene He made a cotton puppet
of the emperors lover and painted it. At night time, he invited the
emperor to watch a rear- illuminated puppet show behind a curtain.
The emperor was delighted. This story recorded in the official
history book is believed to be the origin of shadow puppetry.
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- Materials In recent ages Shadow puppets were first made of
paper, later from the hides of donkeys or oxen. Shadow puppetry was
very popular during the Dynasties in many parts of China. In more
recent times the materials of shadow puppetry have progressed to
something more complex such as colour more complex designs with
wood and metal. Along with progress in puppet designs the scenes or
settings for this entertainment improved to using screens instead
of projections. By using more sturdy materials it makes the puppet
more flexible and tolerant to movement making it more pleasing to
watch and convincing to the audience.
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- Performance The screen is where the puppet will move in and
tell its story. There a many different types of shadow screening.
Shadow screens must transmit as much light as possible, but at the
same time, be opaque enough to hide the puppeteers. It also needs
to be tight enough so that the puppets can be pushed against it
lightly without it sagging and thin enough to give sharp edges to
the shadows.
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- Hand Puppets
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- Hand puppets are storytellers, used to engage with young minds,
having a strong appeal to children, it has been shown to increase
the attention span of children, therefore using hand puppets as a
tool to teach in education Hand puppets have been known to be used
in Religion rituals wearing masks and representing religious
figures in the Far Eastern, Middle Eastern and South American. Hand
puppets were also used in Christianity as the people did not know
how to read, monks and priests learned puppetry skills to teach and
tell them bible stories. Popular hand puppet show called Avenue-Q
live shows, requires two puppeteers, both contributes one hand and
arm dresses with a long sleeve and glove, matching the puppets
costume, which becomes the arms and hands of the puppets.
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- Burnaku
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- Introduction Bunraku was originally named after the first
theatre it was preformed in. The art form only became well known
internatitionly as Bunraku in the late 1800s. It is renowned for
the high quality of detail in the puppets and the puppeteers
techniques. It is required that every puppet needs 3 puppeteers.
Omo zukai- Head puppeteer (controls the head and the dolls right
hand) Hidari-zukai- Left hand puppeteer Ashi-zukai- Foot
puppeteer
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- Joruri- The music in Burnaku Joruri- This is a type of chant
which is used as a script. Joruri Gidya-Bushi- Is the Joruri
narrative to depict the scenes. The objective of Gidya-Bushi is to
give an inanimate object the breathe of life. There are 2 types of
music used in Burnaku Utai- Singing Katari- Reacting or chanting
The chanter (Taya) recites dialogue, explains the background and
the event taking place.
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- Puppet costumes The detailed costumes of the puppets consist of
5 different sections. Juban- The under robe Kitsuke- The inner
Kimono Hoori- The outer jacket Eri The collar Obi- The belt/ sash
To give the puppets depth and softness they were stuffed with
cotton.
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- In Japan the colour black meant nothingness.Bunraku adopted
this and employed black robbed puppeteers. However the due to the
talent of the master puppeteers the audience wanted to see the
puppeteers, this is known as De-zukai. There has been a Japanese
/western styled film based on Bunraku with is called Bunraku. Which
is worth watching if you like the Bunraku style.
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- Artist research
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- Paul Klee Bauhaus artist, who originally made puppets for his
son as part of a puppet show. Between 1916 and 1925 he created a
total of around 50 hand puppets for his son of which 30 are still
in existence. For the heads he would use household items:
electrical outlets, bristle brushes, nutshells Some costumes were
sewn by Sasha Morgenthaler (who later became a well known puppet
maker) but he soon took over the task himself.
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- Sergey Obraztsov Puppet master who established puppetry as an
art form in the Soviet Union and who is considered to be one of the
greatest puppeteers of the 20 th Century. Started of studying art,
then ventured into acting (at the Moscow Nemirovich-Danchenko Music
Theatre and the Moscow Art Theatre)during this time he gave
independent vaudeville-style puppet shows and was chosen by the
soviet government as the first director of the State Central Puppet
Theatre He staged 61 plays, including many famous people and
directed his theatre until the last days of his life.