Archival Footage
In preparation for the upcoming TPPPs, here are some long lost videos from our 2010 unit on Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed. Some photos are also available, buried over here somewhere.
12/13: Annotated Citation Page
During today’s puppetry presentations, the subject turned to annotated source lists. First a reminder: your annotated bibliographies are due by Friday in class. For those of you who still have questions about what that document should look like, check out this example (you’ll need to be logged into your webmail to view it). Be warned ...
Puppets Are Back, says Huffington Post
Are puppets making a come-back? The Huffington Post is running an article on the reappearance of puppetry in popular culture, citing the new Muppets movie, Broadway shows like War Horse and Hand to God, and—because it’s Huffpo—the recent Fox News blithering over Communist Muppets. In the midst of all this, they threw in a few brief ...
Great IPP resource
Wrapping your head around IB assessment criteria is never anybody’s idea of a good time. Thanks to Seamus then for finding this excellent article on Triple A Learning‘s blog, which breaks the IPP criteria down in a natural way. They take the example of a student writing a script for in Independent Project, and walk ...
11/23: Puppet Olympics
As the culmination of our intro to puppetry, our intrepid mannequins performed an acrobatic routine. The original requirement was jumping jacks, a cartwheel, a sprint, and a bow. Our second puppet had the handicap of being short one puppeteer, but still managed a pretty strong showing. And now a reflection opportunity. Looking at the movement ...
Victor Karloch and Puppet Horror
I am going to continue to let Mary Robinette Kowal teach my puppetry unit for me. She has just posted a trailer for an amazing, creepy-looking film: The Narrative of Victor Karloch. This is also an interesting follow-up to Rajvi’s question about on-stage horror. Aside from the directing, the color palette, and the sound effects, ...
11/15: Puppet Making
And now, onto puppets. Those of you who followed my travels over the summer will be completely unsurprised to find Matt Acheson’s collaborative puppet workshop xeroxed into my own course. I’m also lifting liberally from materials graciously provided by Mary Robinette Kowal, whose Twitter feed becomes positively hair-raising when she is constructing puppets. In Wednesday’s ...
Someone read my blog!
My last post garnered a response directly from the man himself. Pretty spry for a bicentenarian. Here is a transcript of our Twitter conversation: It seems he took my joke as it was intended. Of course, we’ll have to wait and see what happens to my next rights enquiry…
Samuel French Releases eBooks
In an uncharacteristically futuristic move, Samuel French has placed over a thousand titles on Apple’s bookstore. This is the same company that still prints their invoices on a dot matrix printer. Electronic publishing was inevitable, but I can’t be the only person who thought their first eScripts would be txt files stored in a Commodore 64 that ...
Just Coming Up for Air
The Arsonists just wrapped, bringing to an end about four solid months of theatre. I’ll be putting up some material about the show on the projects page, but first I need to play catch up. For starters, here’s an article I wrote for the University of Houston’s Creative Pride blog about the 2011 Summer Masters trip ...