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All of the puppets – including bunraku, shadow puppets, hand puppets, rod puppets, and marionettes – are constructed at the theater by the puppet director and apprentices. The theater structure was designed by the park’s original architect, William Russell Everitt, with the assistance of members of the San Francisco Bay Area Puppeteers ...
The Baj Pomorski Theatre was founded by Irena Pikiel-Samorewiczowa, who was enlisted by The Ministry of Arts and Culture to organize the first puppet theatre in Pomerania. [1] The theatre was originally situated in the city's slaughterhouse, which had functioned as a German marionette theatre during Nazi occupation.
In addition to the theater, some of the Bread & Puppet puppeteers operate the Bread & Puppet Press, directed by Elka Schumann, who is Peter Schumann's wife (and granddaughter of Scott Nearing). The press produces posters, cards and books on the theater's themes as well as other forms of "cheap art".
Olive Blackham (15 February 1899 - 21 June 2002) was a British puppeteer. She was the director of the experimental Roel Puppets theatre company, author of Shadow Puppets (1961) and “one of the leading authorities on all forms of puppetry”. [1]
Kathputli is a string puppet theatre, native to Rajasthan, India, and is the most popular form of Indian puppetry. [1] Being a string marionette, it is controlled by a single string that passes it from the top of the puppet over the puppeteers. [2] Putli meaning a doll. Kathputli means a puppet which is made entirely from wood.
The Norwich Puppet Theatre was founded in 1979 by Joan and Ray Da Silva (aka Ray Palma) as a permanent base for their touring company and was first opened as a public venue on 1 December 1980. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] They had run a puppet company touring overseas and had previously been based in Cambridgeshire.
Hachioji Kuruma Ningyo is a Japanese puppet theater company that has been in the family of the founder of the kuruma ningyo style of puppetry since the 19th century. The company was named an Intangible Cultural Asset by the city of Tokyo and an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property by the Japanese government.
The Institute was named after Frank W. Ballard (1929-2010), founder of UConn's Puppet Arts Program, [7] which are the first graduate and undergraduate programs in puppetry in the United States. [8] Its managing director is John Bell, a former Bread and Puppet Theater company member and an associate professor of Dramatic Arts at UConn's School ...