SCENE ON SCREEN STEVE ABRAMS
A Plethora of Puppetry Online B
oundaries and divisions, such as east and west or local, national, and international, seem to have less meaning at a time when most of the performing arts are seen on a screen at home. There are puppetry performances and workshops, festi- vals, and puppet slams, free or for a small fee, on YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, Zoom, and individual websites (and sometimes on multiple platforms). Beyond the world of puppetry performances of plays, Broadway shows, hip-hop, jazz, ballet, comic parodies, opera, and virtual museum visits are all vying for attention and donations.
Some of the many offerings are listed at the Puppeteers of America
website.
https://www.puppeteers.org/internet-puppetry-events and check Puppet Happenings.
http://hensonfoundation.org/ Every puppeteer and arts organization is struggling to keep the art form alive. It is impossible to keep track of and list all the on- screen puppetry. What follows is a random sampling.
Podcasts
The Puppet Tears podcast (Adam Kreutinger and Cam Garrity) set up a special segment called “Cheers to Puppeteers” as a fundraiser for the Direct Relief Fund.
https://www.puppeteers.org/cheerstopuppeteers Foley and Friends launched as a Sesame Street Podcast, October 20, 2020, features Lindsey Briggs (former PofA webmaster) as the voice of Foley, working with Ryan Dillon and Tyler Bunch. The cost is $7.95 for a month. Available on Audible.
https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Sesame- Street-Podcast-with-Foley-and-Friends-Podcast/B08L4ZN4KM Center for Puppetry Arts, offers 11 online puppet shows to rent, including Beauty and the Beast, The Body Detective, and Dinosaurs.
Vimeo The Troll that Stole Hanukkah by WonderSpark Puppets
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/trollhannukah Birdheart by Julian Crouch My Dear Lewis by Kyle Loven The Treeples by Sarah Nolen Feathers of Fire by Hamid Rahmanian (rental) A Prelude to a Death in Venice by Mabou Mines
Facebook
Farewell Fables by Frank Maugeri How Possum Played Death by Matthew McGee Santa Controls the World! by Paul Zaloom and Lynn Jeffries Sova Dance & Puppet Theater, Adelka Polak Wishing Chair Productions, Nashville Public Library
https://www.facebook.com/WishingChairProductions/
YouTube
Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre offers 11 shows, one per week, including Yeti, Set, Snow!
https://www.youtube.com/v=fjrLcawMVJs Lolly Lardpop and Leslie Carra-Rudolph
https://www.youtube.com/v=lKqx3DZGFk4 MicheLee Puppets
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIMF- 1PnkvZQy892uO68ggLQ Sesame Street’s The ABCs of COVID-19, Town Hall for Kids on CNN
https://www.youtube.com/v=QzLdX3HYLvU Amahl and the Night Visitors, Irina Niculescu and John Lewandowski
https://www.youtube.com/v=aPaJAuIZgVw
Virtual Puppet Residency Pittsburgh puppeteer Tom Sarver, in partnership with Pittsburgh Center for Arts and Media, offered a six-week online program “Vir- tual Puppet Residency (VPR).” On December12, Tom Sarver hosted a virtual international festival offering more than 30 acts from 13 counties
https://www.facebook.com/VPRpuppets More Online Puppetry
Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival offers a series of videos
called Puppet in Place with eight artists (some on Vimeo and some on YouTube), including Tom Lee
https://www.youtube.com/v=BJddfAkJhx4
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Required by the act of October 23, 1962: section 4369, title 39, United States Code, filed October 15, 2000.
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Websites to Check Saint George and the Dragon by Sandglass Theater
https://www.sandglasstheater.org/ Manual Cinema’s Christmas Carol (ticketed)
http://manualcinema.com/ A Christmas Carol Penobscot Theatre Company and Michael Haverty
https://www.penobscottheatre.org/show/a-christmas-carol/ Christmas Carol on Fantasy Tour Czechoslovak-American Marionette
Theatre
Cozy Corner by Fay Dupras Trusty Sidekick Theater Company, Spencer Lott Mesner Puppet Theater A (Balinese) Tempest by ShadowLight Productions Rogue Academy by Rogue Artists Ensemble Rent Party by Drama of Works
Flexitoon Puppets, Craig Marin and Olga Felgemacher with Jeff Bragg, produced The Puppet Show Show, featuring short segments by 12 puppeteers.
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