Puppetry Flashcards
What is puppetry?
Form of theatre or performance that involves manipulation of puppets resembling some type of human or animal - manipulated by a puppeteer
How does the puppeteer control the puppet?
Uses controlling devices such as strings or rods to move the limbs and the body of the puppet
What is the simplest type of puppet?
Finger puppets that fit into a single finger or sock puppets that fit onto your while hand and opening and closing of you hand is the mouth
What is a live - hand puppet?
Similar to a hand puppet but larger and need two people
Explain how marionettes are controlled
Controlled by a number of strings plus a central rod attached to a control bar held from above by the puppeteer
When and where was puppetry first recorded
5th century in Ancient Greece
Some originated as far as 3000 years BC
What is one thing the all types of puppetry have in common?
Animating lifeless abject to tell a story
Where are different places puppetry can be used?
Ceremonially in rituals and in celebrations such a carnivals
What is puppetry in Japan, Italy and Indonesia called?
Bunraku
Sicilian marionettes
Wayang puppets - shadow puppets
Who is Punch and Judy?
Famous British puppets who constantly fight
Who wrote the story of Pinocchio?
Carlo Collodi
What is Pinocchio’s story?
Carved by a wooden carver named Geppetto in a village near Lucca Italy.
Was a wooden puppet but dreamed of becoming a real boy - lies often and nose grows
When was the modern “Pinocchio” created?
1940
Adventures of Pinocchio on 1833
Tell me all about E.T.
1992
Steven Spielberg
Read the rest lazy to type
When and who was the muppets created by?
In 1966 by Jim and Jane Henson
