![]() ![]() The Centre is now moving forward with a Phase 2 development to establish a larger theatre of 107 seats in the converted store areas that will be suitable for medium-scale touring product – masks, puppets, mime, physical theatre, dance, film and television making – as well as available for rehearsals and hire. It has now been extended to include secondhand and antiquarian books and may be found in our Shop. In 2005 we launched a new world-wide book service focussing on newly published works for puppeteers, puppet centres and puppet enthusiasts called Personae – Mask and Puppet Books. This service was previously available from Ray DaSilva Puppet Books. The Reference Library and Audio-Visual Archive has been created by Malcolm Knight and is fully equipped with a fast broadband system to facilitate research and links to parallel sites. The Centre has also acquired significant Documentation and Collection resources over the past twenty years including The Miles Lee International Collection of Puppets and Marionettes (1986) the Magic of Masks and Puppets Collection Touring Exhibition, and The Caricature Theatre Collection from Wales donated by Jane Phillips (2001). research training and demonstration resource in the developing field of masks, puppets and performing objects. The Centre is now widely recognised as a major U.K. The age range for the course extended from 17-80 years.ĭuring this time the Centre maintained close links with The University of Glasgow Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies and The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. The Course attracted students from Italy, Germany, Belgium, Denmark and Norway and the UK. The Centre acted as a Field Centre for this teaching and seventy students graduated from the programme over the nine years that the course ran. He wrote and implemented a two year Higher National Diploma foundation training programme in Puppet Theatre Arts. Puppets could also be seen in many theatres for children, in particular. David Griffiths (England) Nohzin Suzuki (Japan) and I Nyoman Wenten (Bali).īetween 1995 – 2004 Malcolm Knight forged a new educational partnership with Anniesland College in Glasgow. In 2005 there were five puppet theatre buildings in Great Britain: the Little Angel, the Norwich Puppet Theatre, the Harlequin Puppet Theatre, the Biggar Puppet Theatre near Edinburgh, and the Puppet Theatre Barge, a floating theatre, home of the Movingstage Marionettes. Mask workshops have included Adriano Lurissevitch (Italy) Ninian Kinnier-Wilson, Sally Brookes, Phil Clarke, Dr. Visiting companies have included Taccedin Diker (Turkey), The Krishnaleela Tour (India), Yiannis Dayakos (Greece), The Oregon Puppet Theatre (USA), Eugenios Spatharis (Greece), Baul Teatro (Mexico) and Asep Sunandar Sunarya (Java). In 1991, the Centre became part of an official Twinning Exchange with the Rostov-on-Don State Puppet Theatre who performed ‘The Gingerbread Boy’ and ‘Teremok’ in Glasgow, while Malcolm Knight and Mike Gonzalez produced an adaptation of ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ with rod puppets in Rostov.ĭuring the 1990s, SMPC continued to maintain a year-round programme of Saturday shows, international masterclasses, and workshops for schools and community organisations. “It was incredibly generous,” she said.In December 1990, at a special symposium in Bilbao, the International Federation of Centres for Puppetry Arts was formed, and Malcolm Knight was elected as its first President (to network the 16 key centres from Venezuela to Moscow). Come on!” But the donor stayed with the bidding, buying the pair for $368,000. ![]() Explore AJC Guide to the Center for Puppetry Artsīids rose above $300,000, and Schiavo thought, “There’s no way our donor will go that far. She knew that a certain Atlanta individual had an eye on the puppets, with the goal of lending them to the center. The selling price was expected to be $150,000 to $250,000.īeth Schiavo, executive director of the Center for Puppetry Arts, got updates from the auction as the bids went up. Kevin Kriess of Time and Space Toys in Zelienople, Pa., acquired the figures, had them restored, and sold them to a collector who put them up for auction this year on Nov. In 2006 a nephew of a Rankin/Bass employee brought two battered but surviving stars - Rudolph and Santa - to the experts at the PBS production “Antiques Road Show,” and they were judged to be genuine, and worth $8,000 to $10,000. No one imagined then that the figures would become treasures. One crew member gave about a half dozen to the children in her family, who played with them harshly. Rudolph, Santa, Hermey the elf, Sam the Snowman, Bumble, Clarice (Rudolph’s crush) and others, were scattered. After the production wrapped, the filmmakers handed out the poseable figures as souvenirs. But while the film has lasted, the puppets that starred in it haven’t. ![]()
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