Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Puppet plays
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Grapevine Telegraph of the Puppeteers of America
Author: The Grapevine Telegraph
Author: Paul McPharlin and the Puppet Theater
Author: Ryan HowardPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786424338
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Paul McPharlin is one of the 20th century's most important contributors to the art of puppetry. Over a period of nine years he created some 20 productions with marionettes, rod puppets, hand puppets and shadow figures. He was also a prolific writer whose technical, theoretical and historical works contributed significantly to a puppetry revival. His book The Puppet Theatre in America is considered the definitive history of American puppetry. Though shy and aloof, McPharlin was also energetic. He had an ability to bring people together and used this knack to found a national puppetry organization, Puppeteers of America. Besides the author's extensive research on McPharlin and puppetry, the book draws on significant contributions from McPharlin's wife, puppeteer and author Marjorie Batchelder McPharlin, who allowed the use of her 18-year correspondence with Paul in the creation of the book. Chapters take the reader through McPharlin's childhood as a loner in Detroit, his maturation and education in New York, and his early, erratic and often unsuccessful attempts at making a living. His puppeteering years, 1929 to 1937, are detailed, as are the later years that saw him first working for the WPA and then being drafted into the army to serve in World War II at age 38. He continued making important contributions to the art of puppetry until a brain tumor took his life at age 45 in 1948. Appendices present two of McPharlin's plays, The Barn at Bethlehem: A Christmas Play and Punch's Circus. Another appendix details puppetry imprints, including yearbooks, plays, handbooks, worksheets and books. A fourth lists Paul McPharlin's Puppeteers, members of the Marionette Fellowship of Detroit.
PUPPETS IN AMERICAN LIFE, 1524-1915
Author: Paul McPharlinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Puppets and puppet-plays
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
The Grapevine
Author: Catalog of the Theatre and Drama Collections: Theatre Collection: books on the theatre. 9 v
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Puppetry
Author: Puppetry, an International Yearbook of Puppets and Marionettes
Author: The Puppetry Journal
Author: Puppetry
Author: Paul McPharlinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marionettes
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description