Two accomplished storytellers share their expertise on using puppets and props to enhance the art of storytelling. Schroeder Cherry uses several types of puppets to tell his educational story about the Underground Railroad, while Karen Quinn-Wisniewski entertains her audience of young children with classic fables and colorful puppets and props. Interviews with each clips from their performances show you how to use puppets to increase your storytelling...

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In Rehearsal for a Sicilian tragedy, actor John Turturro (Barton Fink, Do the right thing) takes audiences on a haunting, intimate journey to his maternal homeland of Sicily. There, while exploring the island's vanishing traditions, he is taken under the wing of one of the puppet theater's few remaining practitioners, Mimmo Cuticchio, who instructs him in the distinctively Sicilian art of puppetry. Filmed during preparations for the Sicilian Day of...

Grishka has grown up in the closed world of a puppet theater in Russia, but now that world seems to be falling apart--his best friend needs an operation, financial difficulties are forcing people out, his homosexual friend Sam, the jester, is leaving for Holland and Grishka no longer knows what role he himself is playing.

Hans, a foundling raised by a grave robber, helps Countess Angela Gabriela, nearly thirteen, when she is torn away from her dream of being a professional puppeteer by an evil archduke out to destroy her and her parents.

A boy who works for a magician meets familiar fairy tale characters when he is transported to the Land of Story in search of a missing puppet.

Introduces the history of puppetry and gives instructions for making various types of puppets, creating stage sets, and producing plays.

In the first three films of the Puppet master series, Andre Toulon's demonic crew of puppets unleash their murderous talents on their unsuspecting victims. Enjoy these original cult classics in all their bloody glory.

"This ultimate puppetry guide includes: how to make pupets from stuffed animals, how to guild your own hand pupet, how to create advanced Muppet-like puppets using master techniques, how to build simple, intermediate, and advanced puppet stages, how to bring your puppet to life with convincing body language, voices, diction, and emotions"--Front cover flap.