Practical Puppetry |
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action angle arrangement attached audience backcloth backdrop battens bend blue body bolts character circuit colour construction costume covered crêpe dimmer dowel rod Drill edge effect eyes face figure finger fit-up footlights frame front row give glove glove-puppet glue gramophone record hand head height holes hook horizontal inside Jan Bussell join joints Kasperl lamp laths lead shot leaning rail leg bar length light loop lower marionette theatre material mortise-and-tenon move movement nailed necessary neck normal operator operator's paint papier-mâché pelvis permanent theatres piece of wood plasticine playboard plywood portable position possible producer prop proscenium arch pulling Punch and Judy puppet play puppet stage puppet theatre puppetry raised rod-puppet round scene scenery screen screw screw-eye shadow puppet shoulders shown in Fig side slots spectator stage floor strings supports thick thread travelling show upper usually vertical wire wooden