Tomorrow Valerie Hammond is to lead the younger children in "Sea Creatures and Mermaids," a workshop to create stick puppets based on Balinese shadow puppets.
And the Wall Street Journal is getting round restrictions on running London 2012 Olympics video online with "Homemade Highlights", using homemade stick puppets to recreate key moments.
PUPPET MAKING -- Children can make stick puppets and listen to a Dr. Seuss tale today from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.; Staten Island Children's Museum, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, 1000 Richmond Terrace, near Snug Harbor Road; free with museum admission: $4; children under 2 and members, free; (718) 27182060.
A fairly badly drawn stick-puppet girl and gorilla throw each other a chocolate sweetie covered in hundreds and thousands.
These can be grouped, according to which of the various stage arts is emphasized, into (1) masked dance and masked dance-mime, (2) unmasked dance and dance-drama, (3) drama with music and dance, (4) opera, (5) shadow-puppet plays, and (6) doll- or stick-puppet plays.
These evolved into glove-and-stick puppets in later years.
Manufacturers in Europe and the United States caricatured Jews as shabby, greedy and menacing, and put these depictions on cigar boxes, candlesticks, trays, tiles, walking sticks, puppets and board games.
Shows often involve face(mask -changing, shadow playing, mask -changingureshadowck-playing), fire spitting and sword-hiding, just to namarionettefigurese places to enjoy the shows are Wu Hou Ci Grand Stage also called Chengdu Old Stage (Chengdu Gu Xitai in Chinese), the most fireuspittingdest stand in Sichuan.
That tension is on full display in "Secret," heightened by Daniel Ostling's low-tech yet dazzling stagecraft (a scurrying rat, propelled by a stick, Asian-puppet-style; a newborn baby represented by a bundle of sticks) and by a book that compellingly weaves its tales in a complex patchwork.
