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Cecil Louis Troughton Smith. Marionettes at Home
Marionettes at Home
Table of Contents
Chapter One ★ THE THEATRE
Chapter Two ★ THE PUPPETS
Chapter Three ★ MANIPULATION
Chapter Four ★ BERTIE ET CETERA
Chapter Five ★ BUTTERFLIES AND ANGELS
Chapter Six ★ THE BALLET
Chapter Seven ★ THE DRAMA
Chapter Eight ★ LIGHTING
Chapter Nine ★ PRODUCTION
Chapter Ten ★ IN CONCLUSION
EPILOGUE ★ Spoken by the Compère
Appendix ★ AN EXAMPLE OF A PUPPET PLAY
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Cecil Louis Troughton Smith
Published by Good Press, 2021
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To the front of the arm-rest is pinned the backcloth. This, hanging down, serves at once to conceal the puppeteers from the audience and as scenery. There can be as many backcloths as you please; the ones not wanted are lifted up and hung over the arm-rest, so that when a change of scene is required, all that has to be done is to twitch the cloths over until the one wanted is exposed. That makes both for speed and simplicity—matters which will be dealt with in far greater detail in the chapter on Production.
And so we turn aside with relief from these grim anatomical facts to discuss matters that cannot be so casually dismissed. We have talked lightly so far about the head and the skull and the jawbones. But before you take in hand any making of joints it is as well to have your head all ready to receive your body; and—there is no shirking the matter—you have to make your head. It is only by the rarest conjunction of circumstances that you can find in a shop or in the nursery a head which will do. My ballet girls have dolls’ heads, but that is solely because they only have to display the amount of intelligence expected of ballet girls.
