Interested in puppetry? Sagecraft offers incredible puppetry resources
beingzoe 4 months ago
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While searching for stagehand resources and sites to add to the stagehand community I stumbled on this great puppetry resource site from a company called Sage Productions. There are two main sections/sites that you might find useful:
This unassuming website created and managed by Rose Sage Barone of Sagecraft Productions and Nick Barone of Nick Barone Puppets, with the help of international contributors, is a vast collection of information and sites for the field of puppetry. Everything is covered from building puppets, to the various puppeting techniques, different puppetry traditions around the world, puppetry schools, organizations, exhibits, museuems, and misc resources.
Professional puppeteer Nick Barone has put together this resource, which obviously show cases his work but reveals some of his techniques with a lot of good information on puppet construction techniques.
Why puppets?
I don’t know. Storytelling is a skill I admire and a hobby I continue to explore in my free time (not sure when that is anymore but…). And puppetry seems like a fascinating story telling medium with a lot of possibility. It allows for a level of imagination and effect on stage that seems affordable and effective. In a play I wrote and produced with friends, we used an entire human and puppet shadow/silohuette sequence with voice over to tell an ancient tale within a much larger story. Being able to travel through distant worlds through simple shapes and light was really exciting and perfect for our low budget effort.
So when I stumbled on this puppetry resource it brought to mind the possibility of producing a wildly unique show on a small budget with extraordinary effect. I’m thinking Guy Maddin meets puppets on stage.
Anyway, always thinking and brainstorming.
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Shadow puppet/character image from the play What? produced by the e.g. theatre in Vista, CA
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I had been thinking about some animated stuff, but puppets almost sounds more doable, out of the ordinary (for what I would want to do) with tons of potential.
I wonder how some of the themes from my novel might play out in puppet form.
Reminds me of a political puppet show about the history of the “unified” U.S., Canadian, Mexican government was formed, that one of the characters brothers (no, I cannot remember any of the characters names at this moment in time) would put on as a yearly tradition at the tennis academy in Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
Anyway I’m thinking short puppet stories in the style of Guy Maddin vs Orson Welles. With a hint of opera. (I will have to post later about my experience with Mikado tonight – too tired and out of it right now).
So yes. Puppets.
Yes, puppets!
I don’t know who Guy Maddin is (please, don’t strike me) but I will be Orson Wells (Er, I mean my puppets will take on the overall feel, attitudes and perspectives of O.W.) and take him on anytime. Let’s discuss. Mwuah-ha-ha…behold the evil destroyer ily!
Might I have a look at that precious manuscript of yours?
The manuscript is off limits. It has devolved into little more than a mass of notes on the back of napkins and conspiracy pamphlets.
And I fear that I have used VS inappropriately. When I wrote “Guy Maddin vs Orson Welles” it was in the style of how I’d seen remixes listed sometimes named “Artist vs Artist”, indicating the “artist who did the remix and the artist being remixed”. And yet it never made any sense to me, and I realize now that you should never attempt to use phrases and terms you don’t fully understand.
What I meant was, a story mashup concept with elements and themes in the style of Guy Maddin blended and contorted with Orson Welles. Not the actual characters Guy Maddin and Orson Welles. Though that might be cool, I fear it would devolve in Celebrity Death Match from Mtv.
Pity, about the manuscript. However, I am convinced that I will see your greatest works come to fruition sometime in my lifetime.
Okay, I follow you on the VS : vs thing. Thank you for the clarification, it is actually quite an intriguing tangent. On my end, I could have done better to express all of your creative sentiments attached to that hair-brained idea of yours were not lost entirely on me. I forget sometimes that you think in abstract angles naturally. I suppose I will at least look up Guy Maddin before further commenting.
Completely separately, I would like to participate in way of practicing the form myself, or by being in attendance of a puppet show where the puppets themselves completely freak out.
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Zoe, this is beyond cool! I absolutely want to put on a puppet show, or a series of shows even, while on the road! This is a great lead to get me started, thank you! I look forward to brainstorming ideas on this topic!