Puppetry... some socio-cultural striations... PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 30 December 2008

bp.jpg  ... these as part of the puppetry healing vision:  puppetry as social comment; as political satire; as symbolic object; as therapeutic transitionary object; as effigy; as carnival and parade emblem; as anti-war voice [see all the anti-Vietnam war stuff the Bread & Puppet Theater did]; as shamanic intercessory mechanism; as Inuit bone carving; as religious/mythic iconoclast; as the coalescing voice of spiritualism and ancestry in, for example, Mexican day-of-the-dead rituals and pageants; as icon of hope for so many dispossessed populations; as the elusive, quintessence of subversion and therefore true spirit of enquiry; as anarchistic and arc-angelic... etc...

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Steve Woody   |2009-01-12 01:46:47
Hey Daffy - aren't stories representative of something simple about human needs,
rather than something complex wreathed in arcane language?

Just a thought!

I
love the website- its very very engaging.

Steve

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