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Bilbar Puppet Theatre's puppets are now held at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane. David Poulton toured marionette shows via the Queensland Arts Council along his 'Strings and Things' with his wife Sally for many years from the late 1970s. [63] Gwen and Peter Iliffe also toured with Puppet People.
A hand puppet (or glove puppet) is a puppet controlled by one hand, which occupies the interior of the puppet. The Punch and Judy puppets are familiar examples of hand puppets. Larger varieties of hand puppets place the puppeteer's hand in just the puppet's head, controlling the mouth and head, and the puppet's body then hangs over the entire arm.
The Bread and Puppet Theater (often known simply as Bread & Puppet) is a politically radical puppet theater, active since the 1960s, based in Glover, Vermont. The theater was co-founded by Elka and Peter Schumann .
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]
Salzburg Marionette Theatre; Spare Parts Puppet Theatre; Spejbl and Hurvínek Theatre; State Puppet Theatre of Fairy Tales; Stony Creek Puppet House; Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre; Sydney Sailors' Home
Bialystok Puppet Theatre's history began in 1937, when it was founded as a small amateur theater by puppeteers Helena Pacewicz and Piotr Sawicki. [2] It was incarnated in its current form in 1953, when the Communist government's Ministry of Culture and National Heritage granted it a subsidy and the status of a professional stage.
The puppet theatre has three independent inside stages: large scene with 250 seats, small scene with 80 seats and upstairs stage with 60 seats. In 2008, Wrocław Puppet Theatre launched "Bajkobus" (FairyBus), a mobile scene which is a mini-version of theatre building. It contains two separate puppet scenes, creates unlimited staging possibilities.
In 1721, a puppet theatre opened in Dublin that ran for decades. The cross-dressing actress Charlotte Charke ran the successful but short-lived Punch's Theatre in the Old Tennis Court at St. James's, Westminster, presenting adaptations of Shakespeare as well as plays by herself, her father Colley Cibber, and her friend Henry Fielding.