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The script is by Eugenie Chan, a fifth generation San Franciscan and award-winning playwright of “Bone to Pick” and “Diadem” (Cutting Ball), “Rancho Grande” (Thick Description) and “Madame Ho” (EXIT Theatre).Īmong other influences, Chan drew upon Buddhist imagery for inspiration. I mean, after I die, it would be harder.” And so I said I really would like to do a big project with Larry sometime before I die. So I’ve watched his process, I’ve watched the amazing results, and I have a deep passion for Indonesian shadow play as well. “He developed a lot of his projects over the last 20, 25 years in our studio. “I’ve known Larry since 1974,” Dresher says. Oakland’s Paul Dresher Ensemble has been creating dazzling new music and new musical instruments since the 1980s, crafting acclaimed music theater works such as “Slow Fire,” “Power Failure” and “Pioneer.” That’s where shadows seem to dwell, at least in my life.”

I think it stems from the same place in your brain that dreams come from. And that has an effect, I think, on audiences that’s very different than animation or film or other kinds of theater.

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I was using cinematic ideas and a combination of different lights and scenery, so that I could do a live montage, a live movie in shadow. And after a while, I discovered that I was doing that. “So I wanted to do a really big shadow play. “I sometimes used to joke when I was doing the traditional Bali shadow theater that Americans only respond to really big things,” Reed says.

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B.265-2000.What happens when you bring together three visionary Bay Area theater creators who have never worked together before? In the case of “Sojourner ZY,” you get a futuristic space fantasy full of liquid, animal-headed and intangible alien beings.īearing the subtitle “An Asian American Science Fiction Fantasy,” “Sojourner ZY” is a world premiere coproduction of ShadowLight Productions, New Performance Traditions/Paul Dresher Ensemble and the Presidio Theatre, where it’s playing for one weekend only.įounded by Larry Reed in 1972 as a Balinese shadow puppet theater, ShadowLight Productions has since branched out into more modern hybrid forms of shadow puppetry incorporating film and live actors. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Parker puppet, Christine Glanville, about 1965, UK. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Andy Pandy puppet, Pelham Puppets Ltd, 1970 – 79, UK. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Muffin junior puppet, Moko, about 1950. Left to right: Sooty and Sweep puppets, unknown, 20th century, museum nos. Spitting Image puppets, created for television in the 1980s by Peter Fluck and Roger Law, renewed the 18th-century tradition of satirical puppetry at a time when many innovative British touring puppet companies were established, and theatre companies such as Forkbeard Fantasy began using large scale puppetry in their work.

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Jim Henson created many different types of puppets for the series Sesame Street and The Muppets which British audiences adored. British children's television from the 1950s to the 70s made stars of several puppets, from the marionettes 'Muffin the Mule', 'Andy Pandy', 'Bill and Ben', 'Lady Penelope', 'Parker', 'Troy Tempest' and 'Captain Scarlet' to the glove puppets 'Sooty and Sweep' and 'Basil Brush' as well as the American sock puppet 'Lamb Chop' (who was still operated by hand).

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While puppeteers provided entertainment for Working Men's Clubs and night clubs in the late 1940s, (with performers operating for the first time in full view of the audience), it was TV that brought brought puppets to a much wider public. Print depicting the Commedia dell'Arte character Pulliciniello (Pulcinella), by Cornelis Danckerts ll after Jacques Callot, about 1622, Europe. In England he was called Punchinello and eventually shortened to 'Punch'. They brought a string puppet character based on the Italian Commedia dell'arte figure Pulchinella. When Charles II returned to England following the end of the Second English Civil War, entertainers from Europe came too, including puppeteers. Puppet plays, however, were still tolerated, so from 1642 until the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, puppet theatre flourished – mostly with glove puppets, though shadow puppets were also known. Theatres were closed during the mid- 17th century during a period of religious and political upheaval In England, when stage plays were forbidden. Puppeteers also performed versions of popular stage plays, historical stories and contemporary events and figures such as Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot.