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A '''puppet''' is an inanimate object or representational figure animated or manipulated by a [[puppeteer]]. It is usually (but by no means always) a depiction of a human character, and is used in [[puppetry]], a play or a presentation that is a very ancient form of [[theatre]]. The puppet undergoes a process of transformation through being animated, and is normally manipulated by at least one puppeteer. |
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There are many different varieties of puppets, and they are made of a wide range of materials, depending on their form and intended use. They can be extremely complex or very simple in their construction. They may even be found objects. As [[Oscar Wilde]] wrote, "There are many advantages in puppets. They never argue. They have no crude views about art. They have no private lives". |
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== Origins == |
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[[Aristotle]] discusses puppets in ''[[On the Motion of Animals]]''. |
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"The movements of animals may be compared with those of automatic puppets, which are set going on the occasion of a tiny movement; the levers are released, and strike the twisted strings against one another ...."<ref http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/motion_animals.html>Aristotle, On the Motion of Animals, 350 B.C.</ref> |
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=== Puppet types === |
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Puppetry by its nature is a flexible and inventive medium, and many puppet companies work with combinations of puppet forms, and incorporate real objects into their performances. So a bought [[corkscrew]] can become a dancer puppet; or they incorporate "performing objects" such as torn paper for [[snow]], or a sign board with words as narrative devices within a production. The following are, alphabetically, the basic and conventional forms of puppet: |
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[[Image:Lemon whole01 wiki.jpg|thumb|A black light puppet]] |
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* Black light puppet - A form of puppetry where the puppets are operated on a stage lit only with [[ultraviolet lighting]], which both hides the puppeteer and accentuates the colours of the puppet. The puppeteers perform dressed in black against a black background, with the background and costume normally made of black [[velvet]]. The puppeteers manipulate the puppets into the light, while they position themselves unseen against the black unlit background. Controlling what the audience sees is a major responsibility of any [[puppeteer]], and blacklight lighting provides a new way of accomplishing this. Puppets of all sizes and types are able to be used, and glow in a powerful and magical way. The original concept of this form of puppetry can be traced to Bunraku puppetry. |
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* [[Bunraku|Bunraku puppet]] – Bunraku puppets are a type of wood-carved puppet originally made to stand out through [[torch]] illumination. Developed in [[Japan]] over a thousand years ago and formalised and combined with [[shamisen]] music at the end of the 16th century, the puppeteers dress to remain neutral against a black background, although their presence as kind of 'shadow' figures adds a mysterious power to the puppet. Bunraku traditionally uses three puppeteers to operate a puppet that is 2/3 life size.<ref>Adachi, Barbara C., ''Backstage at Bunraku'', Weatherhill, 1985 . ISBN 0-8348-0199-X</ref> |
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* Carnival or [[body puppet]] - usually designed to be part of a large spectacle. These are often used in [[parades]] (such as the [[May Day|May day parade]] in [[Minneapolis]], USA) and demonstrations, and are at least the size of a human and often much larger. One or more performers are required to move the body and limbs. In parades, the appearance and personality of the person inside is not relevant to the spectator. These puppets are particularly associated with large scale entertainment, such as the nightly parades at various [[Disney]] complexes around the world. Similar puppets were designed by [[Julie Taymor]] for ''[[The Lion King (musical)|The Lion King]]'', derived in part from the parade tradition. |
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Image:May Day Parade -1-Minneapolis-2007-05-06.jpg|Carnival Puppet featuring two puppeteers - [[Minneapolis]], USA: [[May Day]] Parade |
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Image:Hugo Chavez Homage by David Shankbone.jpg|[[Venezuelan President]] [[Hugo Chávez]] - human carnival puppet |
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* [[Chinface puppet]] - A type of puppet in which the puppet features are drawn on, and otherwise attached to, the face. |
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* [[Finger puppet]] - An extremely simple puppet variant which fits onto a single finger. Finger puppets normally have no moving parts, and consist primarily of a hollow cylinder shape to cover the finger. This form of puppet has limited application, and is used mainly in pre-schools or kindergartens for storytelling with young children. |
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Image:Finger puppet 001.jpg|[[Finger puppet]]s |
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Image:Fingerpuppets.jpg|Finger puppets at the [[Art Gallery of Ontario]] |
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* [[Hand puppet|Hand]] or [[glove puppet]] - These are puppets controlled by one hand which occupies the interior of the puppet. [[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. Other parts of the puppet (mainly arms, but special variants exist with eyelids which can be manipulated; the mouth may also open and close) are usually not much larger than the hand itself. A [[sock puppet]] is a particularly simple type of hand puppet made from a sock.<ref>Currell, David, ''Introduction to Puppets and Puppetmaking'', p.7</ref> |
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Image:Swanage Punch & Judy.JPG|British traditional hand or glove puppets, [[Punch and Judy]] |
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Image:Sockenpuppentanz2.jpg|Simple [[sock puppet]]s |
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Image:Hand puppet laudi.jpg|Hand or [[glove]] puppet dog |
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* Human-arm puppet - Also called a "two-man puppet" or a "Live-hand puppet"; it is similar to a hand puppet but is larger and requires two puppeteers. One puppeteer places a hand inside the puppet's head and operates its head and mouth, while the other puppeteer wears gloves and special sleeves attached to the puppet in order to become the puppet's arms, so that the puppet can perform arbitrary hand gestures. This is a form of glove or hand puppetry and rod puppetry. |
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Image:Briegelderbusch-puppenspieler.jpg|"Briegel der Busch" puppet and puppeteer Jan Mixsa, [[autograph]]ing at "Erstes Fantreffen von [[Bernd das Brot]]" |
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Image:Chilidasschaf-krappweis-haffner.jpg|"Chili das Schaf" puppet and creators Tommy Krappweis and Erik Haffner, taken at "Erstes Fantreffen von Bernd das Brot" |
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* [[Instant Puppet]] - This kind of puppetry is practised by [[Drew Colby]] of [[Objects Dart]], where the puppet (most often created out of everyday objects (see ''[[Object Puppet]]'' below)) is created as part of the performance, in order to add detail to the characterisation of the puppet. The puppets are very often loosely of the rod or table-top type, and can be highly articulated. |
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* Light Curtain puppet presentations use specifically focused light to highlight small areas of a performance, allowing the puppet to be seen while the manipulators remain invisible. The puppets stand on a stage divided into an unlit background and a well lit foreground, meeting to form a "curtain" of light. The puppeteer dresses in black and remains hidden in the unlit background of the stage while the puppet is held across the light curtain in the lit foreground of the stage. "Light curtain puppet" is an umbrella term, and any puppet which is extended into a well-lit area where its handler remains separated from the puppet by a division of light may be called a light curtain puppet.{{Fact|date=October 2008}} |
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* [[Marionette]] or "string puppet" - These puppets are suspended and controlled by a number of strings, plus sometimes a central rod attached to a control bar held from above by the puppeteer. The control bar can be either a horizontal or vertical one. Basic strings for operation are usually attached to the head, back, hands (to control the arms) and just above the knee (to control the legs).<ref>Robinson, Patricia and Stuart, ''Exploring Puppetry'', p.64</ref> This form of puppetry is complex and sophisticated to operate, requiring greater manipulative control than a finger, glove or rod puppet. The puppet play performed by the Von Trapp children with Maria in [[The Sound of Music]] is a marionette show. |
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Image:Seattle Center puppeteer.jpg|A [[puppeteer]] manipulating a [[Marionette]] |
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Image: Close-Up Puppets 3.JPG|Marionettes from the [[Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre]], New York, USA production of "Cinderella Samba" |
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Image:Prague-Marionette.jpg|A puppeteer manipulating a Marionette in [[Prague]], [[Czech Republic]] |
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Image:nola_puppet-productions.JPG|Puppeteer performing in [[New Orleans, Louisiana]] |
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* [[Marotte]] - A simplified rod puppet that is just a head and/or body on a stick. In a ''marotte à main prenante'', the puppeteer's other arm emerges from the body (which is just a cloth drape) to act as the puppet's arm. Some marottes have a small string running through the stick attached to a handle at the bottom. When the handle is squeezed, the mouth opens. |
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* [[Object Puppet]] - A type of puppet often created with found or everyday objects, sometimes created in performance (see ''[[Instant Puppets]]'' above) or pre-created. The object puppet will often take on character by the quality of manipulation and voice to suggest to the audience what the object has become (now that it is no longer itself). |
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* [[Pull String Puppet]] - a puppet consisting of a cloth body where in the puppeteer puts his/her arm into a slot in the back and pulls rings on strings that do certain tasks such as waving or moving the mouth. |
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* Push puppet - A push puppet consists of a segmented character on a base which is kept under tension until the button on the bottom is pressed. The puppet wiggles, slumps and then collapses, and is usually used as a novelty [[toy]]. |
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* [[Toy theater|Push-in or Paper puppet, or Toy Theatre]] - A puppet cut out of paper and stuck onto card. It is fixed at its base to a stick and operated by pushing it in from the side of the puppet theatre. Sheets were produced for puppets and scenery from the 19th century for children's use. |
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Image:Toy theater-1.jpg|[[Toy theater|Push-in puppet]] hands |
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* [[Rod puppet#Rod_Puppets|Rod Puppet]] - A puppet constructed around a central rod secured to the head. A large glove covers the rod and is attached to the neck of the puppet. A rod puppet is controlled by the puppeteer moving the metal rods attached to the hands of the puppet and by turning the central rod secured to the head. |
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Image:Sibiu puppeteer.jpg|Preparing a rod puppet for a performance of [[Town Musicians of Bremen]], [[Sibiu]], [[Romania]], 2002. |
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Image:Rod puppets peasants.jpg|Rod puppets from the [[Horse and Bamboo Theatre]] production 'Harvest of Ghosts' 1997 |
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* [[Señor Wences]] - A Señor Wences is a type of hand puppet created from a human hand, where the puppet features are drawn on and attached to the hand itself, and the thumb and forefinger are used as a mouth. |
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* [[Shadow puppet]] - A cut-out figure held between a source of light and a translucent screen. Untypical, as it is two-dimensional in form, shadow puppets can form solid silhouettes, or be decorated with various amounts of cut-out details. Colour can be introduced into the cut-out shapes to provide a different dimension and different effects can be achieved by moving the puppet (or light source) out of focus. Javanese shadow puppets (Wayang Kulit) are the classic example of this.<ref>Currell, David, ''An Introduction to Puppets and Puppetmaking', p.7</ref> |
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Image:Shadow_puppets.jpg|Shadow Puppets, [[Jakarta, Indonesia]] |
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* [[Supermarionation]] - A method invented by [[Gerry Anderson]] which assisted in his television series [[Thunderbirds (TV series)|Thunderbirds]] in electronically moving the mouths of marionettes to allow for lip-synchronised speech. The marionettes were still controlled by human manipulators with strings. |
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* [[Table Top Puppets]] - A puppet usually operated by rod or direct contact from behind, on a surface not dissimilar to a table top (hence the name). Shares many characteristics with Bunraku.. |
* [[Table Top Puppets]] - A puppet usually operated by rod or direct contact from behind, on a surface not dissimilar to a table top (hence the name). Shares many characteristics with Bunraku.. |
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* [[Ventriloquism|Ventriloquist dummy]] - A puppet operated by a ventriloquist performer to focus the audience's attention from the performer's activities and heighten the illusions. They are called [[dummies]] because they do not speak on their own. The ventriloquist dummy is controlled by the one hand of the ventriloquist. |
* [[Ventriloquism|Ventriloquist dummy]] - A puppet operated by a ventriloquist performer to focus the audience's attention from the performer's activities and heighten the illusions. They are called [[dummies]] because they do not speak on their own. The ventriloquist dummy is controlled by the one hand of the ventriloquist. |
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Revision as of 18:57, 13 May 2010
jooly good day chaps
i was a puppet like pinnokeo or somthing
a head, and the thumb and forefinger serve as a first set of two legs on one side, while the ring finger and little finger serve as a second set of two legs on the opposite side.[citation needed]
- Table Top Puppets - A puppet usually operated by rod or direct contact from behind, on a surface not dissimilar to a table top (hence the name). Shares many characteristics with Bunraku..
- Ventriloquist dummy - A puppet operated by a ventriloquist performer to focus the audience's attention from the performer's activities and heighten the illusions. They are called dummies because they do not speak on their own. The ventriloquist dummy is controlled by the one hand of the ventriloquist.
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Ventriloquist Dummy Puppet from India manipulated by Indian Ventriloquist, Puppeteer, Puppet-Maker Ramdas Padhye -
Satyajit Padhye is a 3rd-generation ventriloquist and puppeteer, and son of Ramdas Padhye.
- Water Puppet - a Vietnamese puppet form, the "Múa rối nước". Múa rối nước literally means "puppets that dance on water", an ancient tradition that dates back to the tenth century. The puppets are built out of wood and the shows are performed in a waist-deep pool. A large rod supports the puppet under the water and is used by the puppeteers to control them. The appearance is of the puppets moving over the water. When the rice fields would flood, the villagers would entertain each other using this puppet form.
See also
- Animation or digital puppet. Animation is a related but essentially different process from puppetry. Animating puppets in time-based media such as film or video is a simulation of movement created by displaying a series of pictures, or frames, whereas puppetry is the live manipulation of figures. Puppet animation, or "puppetoon", can refer either to Stop motion filming, where the movements of the puppets are created frame-by-frame; or "Supermarionation (see above).
- Karakuri ningyō - Mechanized puppets or automata from Japan.
- Lübeck Museum of Theatre Puppets
- Pelham puppets - A type of factory-made puppet created by Bob Pelham famous for making mainly string puppets (Marionettes) In the UK from 1947 to 1993. In 2008 the Pelham Puppet company was revived by a former employee of the original factory and now produces a new line of Pelham Puppets some echoing former styles.
- Persian theatre
- Puppetry - for the cultural and theatrical history of puppet theatre
- Punch and Judy
- Rajasthani Puppet - String marionettes originating from the state of Rajasthan in India.
- Thai hand puppets - A variety of hand puppets from Thailand.
Non-puppetry related usages of the word
The word puppet can mean a political leader installed, supported and controlled by more powerful forces, without legitimacy in the country itself. In modern times, this usually implies no democratic mandate from the country's electorate; in earlier times, it could have meant a monarch imposed from outside, who was not a member of a country's established ruling dynasty, and/or unrecognised by its nobility. "Puppet government", "puppet regime" and "puppet state" are derogatory terms for a government which is in charge of a region or country, but only through being installed, supported and controlled by a more powerful outside government (see Quisling).
In a more general sense, a puppet is any person who is controlled by another by reasons of (for instance) undue influence, intellectual deficiency, or lack of character or charisma. Science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein's novel The Puppet Masters depicts alien parasites who attach themselves to human beings and control their actions.
Poppet, a word that sounds similar, is sometimes a term of endearment, similar to "love", "pet", "doll" or "dear". It alludes to folk-magic and witchcraft, where a poppet is a special doll created to represent a person for the purpose of casting healing, fertility, or binding spells.
Notes
References
- Ghosh, S.; Massey, Reginald, and Banerjee, Utpal Kumar, Indian Puppets: Past, Present and Future, Abhinav Publications, 2006. ISBN 817017435X.
- Bell, John, Strings, Hands, Shadows: A Modern Puppet History, Wayne State University Press, 2000. ISBN 0895581566.
Books and articles
- Baird, Bil (1966). The Art of the Puppet. Plays. ISBN 10 0823800679.
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{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - Binyon, Helen (1966). Puppetry Today. London: Studio Vista Limited.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - Choe, Sang-su (1961). A Study of the Korean Puppet Play. The Korean Books Publishing Company Ltd.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - Currell, David (1985). The Complete Book of Puppetry. London: A & C Black (Publishers) Ltd. ISBN 0-7136-2429-9.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - Currell, David (1992). An Introduction to Puppets and Puppetmaking. London: New Burlington Books, Quintet Publishing Limited. ISBN 1 85348 389 3.
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{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - Latshaw, George (2000). The Complete Book of Puppetry. London: Dover Publications. ISBN 978-048640-952-8.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - Lindsay, Hilaire (1976). The First Puppet Book. Leichardt, NSW, Australia: Ansay Pty Ltd. ISBN 0 909245.
{{cite book}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - Mulholland, John (1961). Practical Puppetry. London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd.
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{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - Robinson, Stuart (1967). Exploring Puppetry. London: Mills & Boon Limited.
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{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - Sinclair, Anita (1995). The Puppetry Handbook. Richmond, Victoria, Australia: Richard Lee Publishing. ISBN 0 646 39063 5.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - Shellstein, Sheldon (April 2006). "The Rise Of Shoop: the meteoric rise of Sheldon". Kid Time Press.
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