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The Prague Quadrennial.
The Prague Quadrennial is the world’s largest exhibition of scenography and theatre architecture in the world. Puppet theatre is also represented. The Theatre Institute has just released a DVD of the 2003 Quadrennial. The DVD is only available in the English version, Pal.4:3 and region free. Price 20USD/16Euro. Post and packing not included.
The DVD is a virtual tour of exhibits from 50 countries, and lasts 150 minutes.
Info. Don Nixon. Theatre Institute. Celetna 17. 110.00 Prague, Czech Republic.
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PODOBY LOUTKY
Podoby Loutky, ‘Forms of Puppets‘, By Alois Tomanek, was first published in 1998; it is now published in English. Alois Tomanek is a puppet theatre designer and director who wrote and illustrated this book which contains material dealing with technical details of a wide range of puppet constructional techniques, controls, manipulation techniques, puppet stages, puppet theatres and sightlines, the puppet and the actor, and more besides. There is a listing of leading Czech puppet theatre personalities, and terminology, also a 48 pages of colour and black and white photographs, and a vast number of line drawings in the text Paperback, A5, 220 pages. Published by The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Approximately £12.50 or €18.
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A new Russian Encyclopaedia of puppet theatre.
During the ‘Dynamics Festival, in Birmingham Tolya and Lara from ‘Tut I Tam’, delivered a fine new publication by my much respected friend and colleague Boris Goldovsky, Director of The State Academic Puppet Theatre of Sergei Obraztsov. Boris, is a prolific writer of puppet books, and has produced a very fine encyclopaedia of puppet theatre, published in 2004. It is a beautifully produced book prefaced by a series of fine coloured photographs of puppets from different parts of the world; the text, is in Russian.
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Lotte Reiniger.
There is currently a renewed interest in the films of Lotte Reiniger, and a number of film houses are screening her legendary, ‘Prince Achmed’, and other short films. Some time ago The Royal Academy of Dance also included a well illustrated article about her life and work. This was later followed by a brief note with the title, ‘The Lotte I knew,’ my memories of her.
During the past few years there have been a considerable number of students of animation from art schools that have visited, ‘The World Through Wooden Eyes’, many of them rejecting computers and interesting themselves in the history and background to film animation, and the work of the great pioneers of the art.
The Goethe Institute has published a well illustrated and well written book about Lotte, Dealing with her life and development, her technique of animated film making, and filmography. British Film Institute has also issued a DVD of ‘Prince Achmed’, which also contains a documentary on her work.
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