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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...
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...
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...
The puppet scene from Ben Jonson’s play showing Busy’s confrontation with the puppets. The production uses actors and puppets. The rod puppets are operated by a professional group, Clydebuilt Puppets.
'The Cruel Garden’ was first performed in 1977. The drama is inspired by the life and work of Frederico Garcia Lorca. Choreographed by Christopher Bruce, conceived by Lindsey Kemp, the ballet is performed...
A cultural history of Punch and Judy and a documentary on Giovanni Piccini. Piccini’s ‘Tragical Comedy and Comical Tragedy’ of Punch and Judy was first recorded in 1827 by J Payne Collier and...
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