Sentence examples for rod puppet from inspiring English sources

March 22, 1879 Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia July 4 , 1948Vienna, Austria Richard Teschner, (born March 22, 1879, Carlsbad, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary died July 4, 1948, ViennAustria-Hungary diedr who developed the artistic potentialities of the July 4 , 1948puppet for western puppet theatre.

Today the rod puppet is the usual type of figure in the large state-supported puppet theatres of eastern Europe.

Although in general the rod puppet is suitable for slow and dignified types of drama, its potentialities are many and of great variety.

WITH the hollowed cheekbones, craggy brow and weathered clothing of a mistreated servant, the nearly lifesize wooden rod puppet slowly and meticulously sets the dining room table at his master's house in 1950s Johannesburg.

By the early 20th century, however, there was a danger that it had achieved a sterile naturalism that allowed no further artistic development; some puppeteers found that the control of the marionette figure through strings was too indirect and uncertain to give the firm dramatic effects that they required, and they turned to the rod puppet to achieve this drama.

The museum's learning center, however, has a special exhibition for children that includes Prairie Dawn, an original Jim Henson Muppet, as well as traditional puppets from around the world, including a Burmese marionette, a Chinese hand puppet and a Javanese rod puppet.

The puppeteers wear black clothing and use masks, costumes and rod puppets that stand up to eight feet tall, borrowing from traditional Japanese bunraku puppetry (one of the characters is pictured below).

In a similar movement in the United States, largely inspired by Marjorie Batchelder, the use of rod puppets was greatly developed in school and college theatres, and the hand-rod puppet was found to be of particular value.

Teschner's work with rod puppets influenced leaders of the 20th-century puppet revival and contributed significantly to the popularity of rod-puppet theatres throughout Europe and the United States.

Connecting these parallel narratives are scenes from Euripides portrayed by wooden rod puppets.

The show, for ages 5 and over, also has fantasy elements, including shadow and rod puppets.