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 Watch for Program: 14th Annual, 14-16 September 2001! 
"This meeting is the largest one in Europe.  It joins toy theaters from Holland, France, England, Denmark, Sweden, Germany and USA.   It serves as a meeting to exchange, contact and inform for all those who are interested.  It is unique in the variety of participating theaters, not only concerning their nationalities, but concerning their modalities of plays, genre, and technical equipment of the stages.  But they have to be toy theaters in the sense of using flat paper figures only, no puppets.  "
 Jurgen Schiedeck  <JuG.Schiedeck@t-online.de>
Personal Note:  Gigi and Glen Sandberg were there in 2000. 

From Jon Bankert:
In July 2000, the Vest Pocket Playhouse will be offering two plays of Euripides.  The Bacchae is his last tragedy, and The Cyclops is the only satyr play that has been preserved from classical Greece.  At the great theater competition of Athens, the Dionysia, playwrights were required to enter three tragedies and a satyr play.  Some scholars believe it is impossible to appreciate the Dionysian character of these festivals without the performance of both types of play.  Don't miss this chance to see the two sides of Euripedes juxtaposed!
Little Portion Friary, P.O. Box 399, Mount Sinai NY 11766

Saturday, July 1 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, July 2 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, July 8 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, July 9 at 2:00 pm
Sunday, July 9 at 8:00 pm

Tickets: $15.00 in advance (only)
Reservations: (631) 743-0553  Tue - Sat 9 am to 1 pm
Jon is back from a professional meeting in Greece!  From his e-mail to Gigi:
Well, I'm back . . . Greece was just more wonderful than I could have imagined.  It was so incredibly beautiful, the people were so welcoming.  I sat for a couple of hours in the Theater of Dionysus in Athens, and just soaked up the vibes. . .  The meeting on Paros was great, too. . . I did the premier of Bacchae on Paros, to great acclaim. They were, of course, as enchanted by the TT form as by my performance.

 

Festival 99 Logo
Chris Carter and Robert Poulter
P of A Logo

PUPPETEERS of AMERICA Gave

a WARM, WARM WELCOME 

to ROBERT POULTER,
the  BRITISH  TITAN  of TOY  THEATRE
at the [National Festival] of [Puppeteers of America] at the University of Washington in Seattle. See Gigi's Fest99 Picture Gallery  and TT Exhibit .

As a guest of the Organization, he offered three workshops, demonstrations, and an exciting performance at the Toy Theatre Salon at the end of the series. 

Other Toy Theatre performers at the Salon included: Ralph Aymin, Robert Burns, Alison Heimstead, Gigi Sandberg, Gregory Schott, Marianne Tucker and her friend Veronica. 

At left: Chris Carter, Festival 99 Director, with Robert Poulter enjoying refreshment at the Toy Theatre Salon.

Seattle sunset

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Seattle 1999 was a great first U. S. "Gathering of the Enthusiasts". Next was 20-23 July 2000 at Great Lakes Regional Festival, in Madison, WI.
[Robert Poulter] with his New Model Toy Theatre and 
[Jon Bankert] with Euripedes' The Bacchae were there.   
See Gigi's [Picture Gallery] 
and Robert's Report in [English] or [German]     
from the Hanauer PapierTheater Schloss bulletin Sept. 2000.    
See also [Puppeteers of America] and [festival2000] .
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From Alain Lecucq: 
We are going to have our second international meeting in Troyes (160km east of Paris, south of Champagne) the 28, 29, 30th of April.  .  .  .  If you are interested you are welcome on [www.themaa.com/papiertheatre] . . . Click on "News" and you are going to arrive on the 
International Meeting of Toy Theatre.
If you like to exhange with us on that subject friday 28, saturday 29 and sunday 30 of april, all the important people (G. Speaight, P. Baldwin, D. Reimers, D. Dröse, M. Bayon, H Oudekerk . . . ) are going to answer to you questions and answer with you (in english or in french) on [www.themaa.com] . Click on "forum", then register (s'enregistrer in French), and last go on "divers - general". That's where we are going to discuss.  Hope to read you. . .
Best regards,
Alain Lecucq
Papierthéâtre 
23bis rue du Cloître Saint Etienne 
10000 TROYES (France) 
Phone/fax : 33 3 25 80 58 33 
E-mail : [papier.theatre@wanadoo.fr]
See [ PROGRAMME ] for schedule of events.
From [ Harry Oudekerk ] :
The second "Meeting of Troyes" is going to be held from the 28th to the 30th of april.  The main idea is to show people "From the Past to Today".  For the past there is an exhibition of the most important collection of spanish theatres in Europe from Mariano Bayon - Madrid and there are shows by George Speaight and Ab Vissers. For the present is an exhibition of what is going on in the USA and modern paper theatre shows like Unia from Poland. All together 8 companies will perform: Paperplays and George Speaight from England, Phoenix and Grims from Holland, Unia from Poland, Eric Poirier, Théâtre de Mathieu and Papierthéâtre from France. 
There will be several distinguished guests: George Speaight, Peter Baldwin for England: Mariano Bayon and Paco Perinan from Spain; Dirk Reimers and Dietger Dröse from Germany, and many others.
Furthermore there will be three days of Forum on the Internet. Since we are going to have all these specialists here, we will open a forum on paper theatre. We will have a web site for french puppeteers (www.themaa.com) and people have only to go on this Forum to open a discussion on their favorite subject.


* * *  [AN INVITATION] * * * From [Rick Shelley] [rmshelley@juno.com] to [August shows] of his Serenissima Theatre.  A standing ovation from Gigi and see [Jon  Bankert] and [Poster '98]and[March 2000]
Original Toy Theatre Opera debuts in San Francisco! 
8PM Friday and Saturday, 11 and 12 February, and 5PM Sunday 13 February 2000.
See reviews by [Bruce Hoard] and [Erin Blackwell]
See The Household Opera explained on the Internet at :
 [http://www.mbed.com/fibo/hop/index.html]
For three days in February the Genevieve Gallery played host to the celebrated Bay Area vocalist Randall Wong in a new-in-2000 collaboration with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. 

In yet another aesthetic departure for the Studio, Wong has created a new opera to be staged in a Victorian toy theater.  Built by the composer, the tiny theater houses miniature sets, lights, and puppets.  The opera is performed live by an ensemble of vocalists and musicians. This performance is the culmination of Wong’s Wattis Residency at Yerba Buena Center.
To find out more about any of these performances, come see us at [http://www.zspace.org] or phone us at 415-437-6775.
 
In New York City,   Feb 24 - Mar 12, 2000: Thu-Sat @ 7pm, Sun @ 3pm.
Dream Music Puppetry Program
presents Chinese Theatre Workshop's Toy Theatre

 - Retells the greatest epic masterpiece of 16th century Chinese Theater in miniature, using modern Western techniques of puppetry and toy theater alternating with traditional kun opera, dance, song, and music.

Directed by KUANG-YU FONG
Designed by STEPHEN KAPLAN
Performed by RICHARD CHANG,
KUANG-YU FONG, & STEPHEN KAPLAN
Music performed by BAOGANG LIU,
KAREN WONG, & ZHONGXI WU
Kun Opera taught by YUHANG WEN

Peony Pavillion

For Tickets & Info:  212-647-0202  [ www.here.org ]  145 6th Avenue, NYC, NY 10013
 
Paul Henry Rosson,  V. P. of the New York P of A Guild, says:  Watch for the MGM film Tea with Mussolini for a long scene with a toy theatre production of Romeo and Juliet by actress Joan Plowright and a juvenile actor playing the protagonist as a young boy. Also starring Cher, Lily Tomlin and Maggie Smith.

[A RETROSPECTIVE]  From Peter Peasgood about the WishTower Festival of New Model Theatre and Traditional Toy Theatre, EASTBOURNE, October 24 to 26 1997, Festival Director Robert Poulter.

For more information on puppetry arts in general, go to [Puppeteers of America's Home Page] which has current festival schedules.  Also see [Rose Sage], who opens a wider horizon on her home page.
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