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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 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]
Beginning in 1964 and running through 1978 Margo Lovelace Visser moved her traveling puppet company from an unheated warehouse in the neighborhood of East Liberty into a garage at 5888-1/2 Ellsworth Ave. in Shadyside, and converted it into a 100-seat intimate theater space. This was the realization of her lifelong dream of owning and operating ...
In 1930, he set up the first modern professional puppet theatre. [55] An important puppet organisation is the National Marionette Theatre in Prague. Its repertoire mainly features a marionette production of Mozart's opera Don Giovanni. The production has period costumes and 18th-century setting.
The WH range, the same size as JC puppets except these tended to have larger heads and were the first to have printed faces. The Vent range, a simple ventriloquist puppet, made from 1968 onwards. Pelham Puppets also made puppets to order for the professional market, used by various companies in their shows.
Royal de Luxe is a French mechanical marionette street theatre company which specialises in giant puppets. They were founded in 1979 in Aix-en-Provence [ 1 ] by Jean-Luc Courcoult. After some years based in Toulouse , the company moved to Nantes in 1989.