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Manipulation: a MAGAZINE for PUPPETEERS Registered by Australia Post, Publication No 11111\.\\\\\\\\\� ·"'t,,••• ,411�)��,� -\ --r.::�i////1'!,I : manipulation: A MAGAZINE FOR PUPPETEERS Registered by Australia Post, Publication No. VBH4377 FEBRUARY 1982 Y, , . I ---------------1EXHIBITION OBITUARIES 1 At the end of 81, in the last The Marionette Theatre of Aus tral:i.a round Editor: Maeve Vella BE'CTY RAJNER of State Federal government grants, ��ih.._, is organizing an exhibition of pup­ and these were the amounts allocated to pets from companies Australia-wide performer, puppeteer, Published every two months SOME FUNDING: puppet theatre- for the Exhibition Hall of the Syd­ founder, with sister ney Opera House.. .Toan, of Australian Available by subscription: All correspondence to: Children's Theatre, 1930 28 Macarthur Place $6.oo annually11 in Australia Puppets exhibited will be "Stars" died November,1981 $12. 30 overseas Carlton VIC 3053 - principal characters from trad­ advertising rates: itional and contemporary puppet IJON BOYCE �e:.Pe�l\-t- 1 plays and star cabaret runs like WHAT S ON & Classified ads: Free the Grand Turk and Dissecting arts administrator, Qua.p"!,er-page ads: $10 ..oo Skeleton. co-ordinator, 1979 �{O�QOO MAR(�� ntel\�E- a,J\O�UA Manipulation is assisted by the Theatre Board of Hobart Puppet Festival The exhibition opens on April 2 $ �q4-oo '-'[rtE. ffll'U+ the Australia CnU11r.il,a statutory body·of the died suddenly, and runs through May. November 1981 Australian Government f 31,5'00 ?PARE: 'PARI'"', JOB·VACANCY • ,.._,100 �t\Mf'IN CORRECTIONS PAPERBAG PUPPET CENTRE 1l 101 �OD Htt�l\111 VICTORIA PARK PRIMARY 76 Edmund Street, Unley SA 5o61. SCHOOL, Collin od, Training in Japan gwo would like to employ Just before going to the summer recess, ;), 100 a puppeteer as artist­ 'PVNCHTU1<eP.. PUK Theatre do run a training course we had a very successful Open·Day on ' in residence for one for pupp.eteers, but not for foreigners. 28th November, with hund:reds of visit­ 1,o00 week in Term II. Small ors going through the cottage. 1 Foreigners must make special applic­ school: 90 pupils, MAN lp(/t.l<,TION ation to be admitted and must have a 2.00 5 teachers. •The museum was·overflowing: puppets '6-1 . thorough knowledge of the .Tapanese Phone: � :z. .\'5 I language. (03) 419 4230 made by Mrs.Hanson, Jo� Grabek, Chris Burfield and his students, and <Peter Wilson studied the techniques of HANDS - A. NEW COMPANY Little-Patch Theatre. Alice and Carol .5TAie" BUill'a.ku and Kabuki Theatre at The Jarrett represented puppetry in the � church, Sandra S.alaman exhibited her k#lft(��� -nteATl',,c- CF /W5rtrfKJA :NATIONAL THEATRE OF JAPAN, and spent IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY 1 � 1,0,eeo four weeks parlicipating in the PUK 1 Aladdin" ( having premiered just a NSW ' week before), Caroline Strahle and a, -Training Academy Programme as well as HANDS began in September 1981 at a two­ Ivan Rehorek showed their designs as • 'VIC 1:.,eca ff I, �5f¥M(N. studying Japanese F.,olk Festivals and day workshop at the Araluen Community .,. well as Japanese brush paint_ing tech­ . NoH Theatre. p e,,,:,O �I'\ Centre in Alice S rings. Organized by niques, Hans Kreimer performed his � -1( ,l, Carol Scott, Kate Fones and Peter Hughes, 11\S He is happy to help puppeteers trav­ shadow bits - and Mrs.Pichler sold 1J oll,eao "TI;� the workshop was lead by Wilson McCask­ almost all her Pelham puppets. elling to Japan with contacts. ill, who had sparked Carol Scott Is int­ eJ WI\ erest in puppet theatre at a Nutshell ,s,eoo Most of the visitors were taken by 11 �ilcMRTS Peter Wilson can be contacted at Theatre workshop in Perth two years be­ surprise by the wide range of puppets SPARE PARTS PUPPET THEATRE, fore. It must have been an inspiring and most of them asked for the next 7,0TIO P.O. Box Fremantle WA two days, because at the end of it Carol, '5A ffl1'eR..�A6 897, 6160 Open Day where the rest of the family �? # Phone: ( Kate and Peter were joined by 9 others • 09) 3'.>5 3533 could come as welL And after talking to produce their first performance and the whole day, we could hardly whisper �C.1> � ,-,,oc,c, A!RENSU\Mll �lOKi.TTe � become HANDS. A grant of $3,800 to the on Monday afterwards. Kooka•s New Nest Araluen Trust from the Australia Council has helped them to get started, and they KOOKA PUPPET COMPANY have moved The Centre 1s now completely upside­ plan to establish a repertoire of shows to bigger & better premises at: down with paint, papers and sets Ivanhoe Parade, to tour the Territory, and to run their spread everywhere•. The Japanese prod­ 4,L/-JM! own puppet theatre at the Araluen Comm­ 11Bunraku" uction is nearly finished and we are A TERM THAT IS WIDELY MISUSED The word comes from· the stage name of a IV ANllD E VIC 3079 unity Centre. Japanese puppeteer from Awaji Island, called Masai Phone now working on the Polish story. 1 11 (03) 497 2697 Kahei, stage name 1Bunrakken • •• The art of Joruri ( the real name for this type of LETTERS The Manipulation calendar has given us Dear Maeve ••• Our last show, 11Deep theatre) went into decline in 1842 because of drast­ an idea - why not have an Australian Space Bungle" was a success, financ­ ic government reforms. B�akken and bis troupe calendar for 1983 with twelve puppet ial and otherwise. We got lots of ::::, were one of the few survi vors and they established companies providing pictu�e/material/ free publicity through the Festival. themselves as the most outstandi ng puppet troupe in Dear·Maeve .... I enjoyed your review layout for each month·? It would be of Sydney, but the Festival itself' Osaka. 1 of 1 Macarth1.U'" ·but feel the front page possible to ask each of the companies has really come downhill. Most acts � 11 heading, 11MTA·Resurrect s • implies a · for $100 contribution, as well as some were the same as last year. Every­ Izr 1a72·the troupe opened a theatre called the BUN­ 1 1 messianic status· for our company not moneykay perhaps be saved from the thing done on the cheap and covered RAKCJ THEATRE in Osaka, and the name 1Bunraku 1 became yet justti'ied. There is, of course, Festival 1 s budget. The calendar could with ads for the sponsor. ( I'm speak­ <( synonymous with this type of theatre. A fire in 1926 destroyed the theatre and most of the puppet heads. much·more to running a puppet company be sold during the 1983 Festival to ing about acts in the park) The lay­ than do"ing shows which please puppet­ the public at large, sent overseas - out was acoustically a carnival. Each � The theatre was rebuilt, but in 1945 was again burnt eers. Shows such as "Smile s Away" and and maybe even UNIMA could make en-:­ activity/stage's sound carried over down, this time completely devastating any old pupp­ 11 11Macarthur which have been well rec­ ough to have money for ·the next year's. into the-next area and most stages ets that bad survived. The Bunraku Association was eived by puppeteers and audiences calendar as well. There cannot be a and PA Is were up at the Archibald formed and a new thea:tre was built, which is still alike have yet to prove themsel ves better promotion than something of Fountain, which left the buskers the the home of this type of theatre in Osaka. at th� office, whereas 11 The Magic this kind - _otherwise there w�ld be ·short between-show breaks to perform z box1 1 11 Pudding' and 1 The Mysterious Potamus a lot of paper spent in the same way and be heard. Pity, The name of the type of puppet used is "Kugutsu". 11 have come in above budget. Of course, as we have seen it with past Come Out Dennis Murphy ::::, "Bunraku i·s now the· modern term for the theatre ideally it would be good to have a festivals, etc. If acceptable, Outlandyshe Puppet Theatre form of puppet playing, Joruri or storytelling, 1 we 1 commercial" product which pleased would l:ike to be one of the companies ea and Samiesen playing. all. involved• Pet er Wilson Richard Bradshaw Karel & Eva Rehorek, Marionette Theatre of Australia Paperbag Theatre Co. 2 1 ---------------1EXHIBITION OBITUARIES 1 At the end of 81, in the last The Marionette Theatre of Aus tral:i.a round Editor: Maeve Vella BE'CTY RAJNER of State Federal government grants, ��ih.._, is organizing an exhibition of pup­ and these were the amounts allocated to pets from companies Australia-wide performer, puppeteer, Published every two months SOME FUNDING: puppet theatre- for the Exhibition Hall of the Syd­ founder, with sister ney Opera House.. .Toan, of Australian Available by subscription: All correspondence to: Children's Theatre, 1930 28 Macarthur Place $6.oo annually11 in Australia Puppets exhibited will be "Stars" died November,1981 $12. 30 overseas Carlton VIC 3053 - principal characters from trad­ advertising rates: itional and contemporary puppet IJON BOYCE �e:.Pe�l\-t- 1 plays and star cabaret runs like WHAT S ON & Classified ads: Free the Grand Turk and Dissecting arts administrator, Qua.p"!,er-page ads: $10 ..oo Skeleton. co-ordinator, 1979 �{O�QOO MAR(�� ntel\�E- a,J\O�UA Manipulation is assisted by the Theatre Board of Hobart Puppet Festival The exhibition opens on April 2 $ �q4-oo '-'[rtE. ffll'U+ the Australia CnU11r.il,a statutory body·of the died suddenly, and runs through May.
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