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| Sean
Keohane |
photo by Wayne Hampton
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Contact:
Sean Keohane Phone: 718-884-3430
Fax: 718-884-3432
Email: seankeohane@aol.com
2728 Henry Hudson Parkway E., 37-C • Spuyten Duyvil,
Bronx, NY 10463
Website: puppetmagic.co.uk/americas/usroundup.htm
Touring theatre and lecture program awarded a Jim Henson
Foundation grant to stage 19th Century French puppet plays
in English.
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The Terrible Polichinelle Theatre |
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Duration: |
30
minutes |
| Audience: |
Children/Family/Adult |
| Audience
Size: |
35-250 |
| Puppet
Style: |
Traditional
European hand puppetry |
| Language(s): |
English |
| Stage
Size: |
6' x 7' x 5' |
| Description: |
Repertoire of 19th Century glove puppet shows translated into rollicking English, in family and puppet slam versions: Merchant of Blows-With-A-Stick, The Cask, and Cassandre and the Beautiful Day. |
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The
Terrible Polichinelle:
19th Century Puppetry in
Paris |
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Leader: |
Sean
Keohane |
| Duration: |
30-90
minutes |
| Audience: |
Adult |
| Max
Enrollment Range: |
100 |
| Puppet
Style/Skill Taught: |
History, glove puppet script work |
| Language(s): |
English,
some French |
| Experience
Required: |
None |
| Space
Size: |
Classroom
or lecture hall |
| Personnel: |
1 |
| Description: |
Overview with staged reading of works by 19th Century French puppetry impresario, Louis Duranty. |
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Merchant of Blows-With-A-Stick
and Other Plays |
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Description: |
Book of five translated plays by Louis Duranty, published in 2007 by Charlemagne Press. Available through www.amazon.com. |
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