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Updated 12/4/2008
Photo of the week
List of people who are
interested in making giant puppets, pageants,
and parades. Get in touch with others in your area;
this is not a solitary pursuit. Sign up!
68 Ways to Make Really Big Puppets
Page of Thumbnail Sketches
Page of Thumbnail Photos
click on name to see diagram and explanation of puppet (* includes photo)
Simple Puppets:
Fathead*/
Purely Cardboard*/
Pole Dragon/
Face Banner*/
Star Banner*/
Hat Cat*/
Opera Singer*/
Totem*/
Flier*/
Jo's Penguin/
Shimmy Dancer/
Hattifatner/
Other (Flapping Angel)*
Backpacks:
About Backpacks*/
Jo's Ladies*/
Jose's Ecstatic/
Demonoid*/
Hep Cat*/
Skeleton*
Animals:
Two-person Fish/
Cats and Dogs*/
Riding Horse*/
Wire Demon*/
Circus Stilt Ape/
One-person horse*/
Two-person Cat*/
Four-person Beast*/
Frog*/
Other Animals
Birds:
Bread and Puppet Flying Bird*/
Flapping-wing Bird*/
Heron*/
Amusing Bird*/
Wire Bird*/
Stilt Bird
Dragons:
Ground Dragon*/
Half-hoop Caterpiller*/
Half-hoop Dragon/
Mermaid/
Heads/
Tails/
Other Dragons*
Giant Puppets:
Kid-King*/
Preying Mantis/
Mr. America*/
Poseidon*/
Flora*/
Dorchester African King*/
RISD Fisherman*/
Samba Dancer*/
George's Jumping Jack Death
Hoop and Cloth Puppets:
Wiggletree*/
Mr. Punch*/
Big Fish/
Big Croc*
Other:
Foam Puppets/
Printed Banners*/
Plaster Casting
Technical Information:
Making Faces*/
Costumes/
Attaching Heads/
Hands/
Stilts/
Crankie (paper movie)/
Materials
The Patternbook of Pageants and Processions
Page of Photos and thumbnails of parades and pageants
Rain (on some other) Forest Parade
The Street is a Shining Sea*
Urbanity*
Midnight Ramble Parade
Rites of Spring*
Masque of the Five Senses
Scripts:
Good for Kids!The Story of a Stone
The Story of Fred and Ed (2001-2005)
Romeo and Juliet on Earth
The Odyssey
Iqbal Masih or Dreams of a Better Life
The Rights of Spring
Metropolis
Purim Play
King Lear of the Insects
The Puppet Free Lending Libraries
Wanna be in a Parade? (First NIght Boston)
About Us
Who we are
What we're up to
Why we're doing this
George Konnoff
About Organizing Pageants and Parades
NEW!
We have some Videos on Youtube.
Perhaps we're being too subtle...............
you can hire us, you know!
about Plays
New!
about Dancing Puppets and Puppet Romps
about workshops
about The Construction Section
about impromptu parades and instant pageants
about Play Making
Hey puppetistas! police rules against giant puppets containing sticks at demonstrations getting you down?
Have you considered Inflatables?
Links
For more information about all sorts of puppetry, visit:
The Puppetry Home Page
The
Bread and Puppet Theater is the great granddaddy of
giant puppet theaters in the United States.
Making puppets, fun, and trouble in Philadelphia:
Spiral Q! Resource List
Here is a good and interesting site about Karagoz,
the traditional Turkish shadow puppet Theatre:
KARAGOZ
For all our beatboxing needs, the Puppet Co-op turns to our friend:
Kid Lucky and Beatboxer Entertainment
The Puppet Co-op does a Fourth of July Parade every year
with The Governor's Institute on the Arts of Vermont; see
The GIA Home Page
for the Triumph of the Arts samba parade.
It was at the Governor's Institute that
we heard the poetry of Geof Hewitt
And also of the (found and written) poetry of Verandah Porche
We've often worked with the puppeteers of the
Luna Theater
William McCurtin, one of the puppeteers, publishes a zine:
The Story of My Scab
...Check it out!
The Puppet Library is in the basement of wonderful
Emmanuel Church
We offer a xerox version of '68 Ways to Make Giant
Puppets' for $4,
¡Y ahora, en el español!
and a 'How to Make Giant Puppets' video
for $10.
Now also on DVD!
For these, or for help if you run into technical
difficulties, write, call or e-mail:
Sara Peattie
20 Grove Street
Boston, MA 02114
(617) 263-2031
email: puppetco@gis.net
Or:
Theresa Linnihan
3396 12th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
Versions of "68 Ways" are also sold by:
!In German!
Wilfried Nold
Versandbuchhandlung
Eppsteinerstr. 22
60323 Frankfurt
Tel: 069 72 83
www.puppenundmasken.de
In England
Ray DaSilva
63 Kennedy Road, Bicester
Oxfordshire OX26 2BE UK
Tel/Fax: +44 (0) 1869 245793
www.puppetbooks.co.uk
In the USA:
The Bread and Puppet Press
Bread and Puppet Theater, Box 153
Glover, VT 05839
The Puppetry Store
783 South Agate Road
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 83814-7691
www.puppeteers.org
The information and images on the Puppet Co-op website
may be freely copied, used, and distributed.
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