...John Bell Petrushka: The Russian Carnival Puppet Theater by Catriona Kelly (Cambridge University Press, 1990). Copyright © THEATER 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS The Age and Stage of George L. Fox episodes, Irwin's play conveys the rise and because, Kelly shows...

...Bernard Weiner Copyright © THEATER 1978 1978 Theater in Sausalito Snake's Masks and Puppets Bernard Weiner Snake's trademark is its use of huge masks A troupe of musicians, dressed...

...Kate Bredeson © 2002 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2002 Productions Kate Bredeson slanted eyebrows. When the puppet-actors enter the stage, they are guided by black-clad Human Puppets Dangling...

...Eileen Blumenthal Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2006 Pakistani president General Pervez Musharraf being savaged in effigy in April 2000 during a demonstration by Hindus protesting the recent killing of Sikhs in Kashmir. Effigies, first cousin of puppets...

...Claudia Orenstein © 2008 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2008 Productions Claudia Orenstein Puppets Invade France XIVème Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes Charleville-Mézières, France, September 2006 The most talked-about feature of the Metropolitan...

...John Bell Copyright © THEATER 1991 1991 he four different productions presented by the Bankelsang sparked the interest of high-culture theater Bread and Puppet Theater at the 1990 Los makers quite early on. Goethe performed a blinkelsang T Ang e 1e s Fe...

...Bread and Puppet Theater; Puppet Theater Copyright © THEATER 1991 1991 GUEST EDITORIAL: TH€ FOOT BREAD AND PUPPET THEATER...

... is one of many puppet takes hold of her. She moves, at first, in artists whose skills were displayed at the The 1980 small, controlled undulations, but this is a 1980 World Puppetry Festival, held in con...

... in the ferent focus. The Sideshows are over 30 TBread and Puppet Theater’s year simultaneous performances for an am- formally begins with a joke. Pup- bulatory crowd: the Circus a single per- peteer Paul Zaloom dashes...

...Jacob Gallagher-Ross © 2008 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2008 Productions Claudia Orenstein Puppets Invade France XIVème Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes Charleville-Mézières, France, September 2006 The most talked-about feature...

...John Bell Copyright © Theater 1994 1994 For further information, see Bell , John “The Bread and Puppet Theatre in Nicaragua, 1987.” New Theatre Quarterly, 17 (February 1989 ). Bell , John “The Nineteenth Annual Domestic Resurrection Circus.” Theater , 18 : 3 (Summer...

... to describe it is revealed to be the slack, soft husk of a doll. his theory that the eeriest experiences are evoked More disorienting revelations follow: puppets by nonhuman things that nevertheless resemble pantomime human gestures, and humans per- us — even, perhaps, to the point of fooling us. To form...

... trilogy on Dutch colonial history in the archipelago. The puppets inhabit dioramas of vil- lages, trees, rainforests, rice fields, and ships. These tiny and crude yet beautiful figures are operated by the performers with a concentration and delight reminiscent of child s play. A large screen magnifies...

...: The puppets are thrust in the air. Solo dance of man. Lacrymosa VI: The vulture flies through the space to the sound of loud drums. Lacrymosa VII: Night. A small light is seen in the tiny mother's house. Her shadow is seen in window. Candles are brought out and placed...

... 23 NACHTSTUCK (NIGHT PLAY) ON THE STAGE STANDS A MAN. HE IS LARGER THAN LIFE, MAYBE A PUPPET. HE IS dressed in placards. His face is without a mouth. He looks at his hands, moves his arms, tries out his legs. A bicycle, whose handle-bars, pedals or both, or whose handle-bars...

... conspicuous for the performers who were absent: more than seventy Puppetistas, activists who build large puppets out of papier-mâché and, according to Kellia Ramares, “trash that is left behind by others: to create art, to create vision, to create message...

... a giant red moon and surrounded by great swaths of verdant vines, the sheep dance and multiply. Three nymphs rustle their robes of ivy and shake their leafy headdresses as an octet of woolly puppets leap in gracefully elongated arcs and shake the soft tendrils of their fleecy coats. In short order...

... luminous in oil lamp footlighting on a vast stage that is enveloped by a black cyclorama. And the fairies they meet there are small doll puppets, china doll spectres...

... pictures of the lifeless dummies frozen in their glass cases. The puppet as a metaphor for the theatre is evidently a concept congenial to Miller; in the same Times article he had said "Acting is a perilous business. It's exactly like ventriloquism. Everybody knows the ventriloquist...

... was the fairground puppet theaters. This mistrust, Clown most popular clown in America 125 years according to Kelly, extended to the by Bill Irwin, with Geoff Hoyle and Friends ago: since then his name was virtually Russian Symbolists who, despite...