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Puppetry Links

	Bobo Theatre - A design for children to use with glove puppets. Full instructions and ilustrations.
	The British Puppet and Model Theatre Guild - Profile, events, membership information, history and links.
	The Puppet Lab - Information and contact details for Edinburgh based puppet makers Symon Macintyre and Kim Bergsagel: tours, education projects and mailing list.
	Harlequin Puppet Theatre - Details and pictures of productions and puppets, and information for research into the British marionette tradition from the Colwyn Bay based venue.
	The Presto Puppet Theatre - Touring company using a variety of styles: contact information, productions, profile and link.
	Punch and Judy - Information, history, FAQs, How to book and where to see Punch and Judy shows, gallery and contact details.
	Puppet Books from Ray DaSilva - Books on puppet theory, history, construction methods, performing techniques. Biography
	Stavordale Marionettes - Tribute to a puppet company who performed continuously from 1947 up until 1987. History and characters plus details of the British Puppet and Model Theatre Guild.
	The Punch and Judy Fellowship - Constitution, media information, membership application and news.
	The Punch Page - Cornucopia of Punch history. Photographs, articles, how to make a swazzle and sound clips.
	The Puppeteers' Company - Touring company. Performance details, puppets and workshop video.
	Ted and Kath Beresford - Performers who also run workshops, masterclasses and puppetry weekends. Also offers puppets for sale.
	Hands Up for God Creative Ministry - Team in Leicestershire who arrange puppet events and workshops for churches. Information about their activities, books, scripts, puppets and how to book.
	Barry Purves - Article from Bright Lights Film Journal discusses the major works of the British puppet animator.
	Biggar Puppet Theatre and the Purves Puppets - Scotland's only permanent puppet theatre. Information on puppet shows, workshops, children's parties, Christmas shows, teacher inservice and touring company.
	Dandelion Puppets - Puppet shows, childrens entertainment, wildlife shows. See and learn shows with an educational bias. Brighton.
	Just Puppets - Professional puppet shows from Paul Garofalo, Cambridgeshire. Shows, prices, bouncers and workshops.
	Walk the Talk Christian Puppet Ministry - Puppet ministry team specialising in communicating the gospel to the under 13 age group. Details of beliefs, puppets and animations. Based in Staffordshire.
	Storybox Theatre - Touring theatre company that produces puppet shows for both children and adults. Background, productions, schools service and appearances at international festivals.
	Kallini Puppets - Puppet workshop, which operates throughout the UK. Photos and descriptions of the players. On line booking form or contact by phone.
	Pelham Puppets Online - Dedicated to puppets made by the Pelham Company from 1947 to 1992. History, care, range and classifieds.
	The Puppet Work-Shop - Traditional papier-mache puppets, marionettes and puppet-theatres made to order plus puppet making workshops in the South of England.
	Flying Pig Parties - Two person touring theatre company specialising in people and puppet shows for schools, parties and events in the South of England.

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In that case, what is the question? -- Gertrude Stein, dying words Puppetry Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Men have become the tools of their tools. -- Henry David Thoreau A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter really Puppetry The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -- Nicholas Murray Butler My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. -- Lenny Bruce "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Puppetry In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. -- Helen Rowland "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. -- Buddha Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it. -- Herman Melville Puppetry "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph Puppetry Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time Puppetry "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Puppetry In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. -- Niccolo Machiavelli "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson Puppetry Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. -- Groucho Marx "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Puppetry Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. -- Rita Mae Brown I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? -- Benjamin Disraeli Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. -- Josh Billings Puppetry "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. -- Winston Churchill Is there life before death? -- Belfast Graffito Puppetry Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -- Josh Billings Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. -- Samuel Johnson Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. -- Kenny Ausubel blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Puppetry One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell [text_end] [text_start] A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. -- H. L. Mencken The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - General George Patton Puppetry "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. -- Baskins "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance? -- Holbrook Jackson Puppetry Silence is argument carried out by other means. - ErnestoCheGuevara Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. -- Francis Bacon Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Puppetry "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of u The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. -- George Bernard Shaw What is the answer? In that case, what is the question? -- Gertrude Stein, dying words Puppetry You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -- WARREN BEATTY "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw Puppetry You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. -- Robert Frost Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle Onassis When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -- William Blake "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Puppetry Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. -- Samuel Butler In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. 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