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t. e. Puppetry is a form of theatre or performance that involves the manipulation of puppets – inanimate objects, often resembling some type of human or animal figure, that are animated or manipulated by a human called a puppeteer. Such a performance is also known as a puppet production. The script for a puppet production is called a puppet play.
Tony Award for Best Original Score. Avenue Q is a musical comedy featuring puppets and human actors with music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx and book by Jeff Whitty. It won Best Musical, Book, and Score at the 2004 Tony Awards. The show's format is a parody of Sesame Street, but its content involves adult-oriented themes.
A performance of wayang, an Indonesian shadow puppet form. Shadow play, also known as shadow puppetry, is an ancient form of storytelling and entertainment which uses flat articulated cut-out figures (shadow puppets) which are held between a source of light and a translucent screen or scrim. The cut-out shapes of the puppets sometimes include ...
Kanadehon Chūshingura. The Treasury of Loyal Retainers仮名手本忠臣蔵Kana dehon Chūshingura 1 is an 11-act bunraku puppet play composed in 1748. [ 2 ] It is one of the most popular Japanese plays, [ 3 ] ranked with Zeami 's Matsukaze, although the vivid action [ 4 ] of Chūshingura differs dramatically from Matsukaze. [ 5 ]
Punch and Judy is a traditional puppet show featuring Mr. Punch and his wife Judy. The performance consists of a sequence of short scenes, each depicting an interaction between two characters, most typically the anarchic Mr. Punch and one other character who usually falls victim to the intentional violence of Punch's slapstick. First appearing ...
The play makes extensive use of puppets, with puppetmaster Basil Twist saying that "Totoro must be that you want to touch him, that you want to fall asleep on his belly". [13] In particular, the Japanese producers strongly advocated for the use of human puppeteers instead of machines: the product was a new "wind spirit" style of puppetry. [13]
The character Osono, from the play Hade Sugata Onna Maiginu (艶容女舞衣), in a performance by the Tonda Puppet Troupe of Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture. Bunraku (also known as Ningyō jōruri (人形浄瑠璃)) is a form of traditional Japanese puppet theatre, founded in Osaka in the beginning of the 17th century, which is still performed in the modern day. [1]
The Billy-Club Puppets ( Los títeres de cachiporra) is a play for puppet theatre by the twentieth-century Spanish playwright Federico García Lorca. It was written between 1922 and 1925. It is about a beautiful heroine named Rosita who falls in love with a poor boy named Cocoliche, but has to marry Don Cristóbal, a rich old, lazy lump with a ...