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MAKING WAR HORSE is the story of how Michael Morpurgo’s children’s novel became one of the most popular and acclaimed productions in the National Theatre’s history. From its early development in the NT...
A production of The Tempest combining shadow theatre with live dancers to create a cross-cultural staging of Shakespeare’s play using a style pioneered by visiting artist Larry Reed. Reed fused Balinese...
Video recording using a single camera of a performance of ‘Maria Marten, or Murder in the Red Barn’ and Victorian Music Hall, directed by John Caird, recorded at the Britten Theatre in December 1999, and...
Wayang Golek is the rod-puppet theatre tradition of Sunda (West Java), Indonesia, which comprises a vibrant mixture of storytelling, songs and instumental music. The programme introduces the Wayang Golek...
A video recording using a single camera of a performance of ‘At Home with Mr Punch’, devised by Glyn Edwards, Clive Chandler and Dan Bishop and performed by the Punch & Judy College of Professors at the...
Jan Svankmajer’s surreal version of the Faust legend. Uses live action, animation and grotesque puppets. Based on the Faust plays by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Christian Dietrich Grabbe, Christopher Marlowe....
Based on the memoirs of Li Tianlu, who appears as himself, this story follows the life of Taiwan’s most famous puppeteer and is the history of Taiwan life from 1909 to 1945. Includes several long, unbroken...
Gives an impression of six theatre groups that are professionally involved with puppet theatre. By showing individual portraits of these six groups, the film traces a path which leads from small scale puppet...
Begins with a brief introduction to puppetry: shadow, rod, glove and string puppets (marionettes). Introduces Waldo and Muriel Lanchester at their marionette theatre in Malvern during the early 1940s. The...
Heiner Schepers designs and makes his own puppets; he is a painter, graphic designer, craftsman and theatre director. The video gives a brief, historical account of German puppet theatre and discusses...
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