LARGE PROFESSIONAL WOOD MARIONETTE / JIM ROSE PUPPET

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THIS AUCTION IS OPEN ONLY TO USA BIDDERS! NO INTERNATIONAL SALES! CLASSIC WOODEN MARIONETTE This charming marionette was hand crafted by puppeteer Jim Rose for a special "Hands on workshop" he presented at the Puppeteers of America National Puppetry Festival in 1989. The concept of this workshop puppet was for it to serve as a "test bed" for a highly refined marionette control designed by Jim that would allow for a broad range of gestures from the marionette. Each participant would have a completed, strung marionette for practice and experimentation with this innovative approach. This was an advanced level workshop with enrollment limited to experienced marionette performers. As I recall Jim Gamble and Luman Coad were amoung the participants. Each "student" recieved a "Roddy McDowel" marionette and a "Pepito" marionette control that Jim had made prior to the Festival. During the workshop we strung our puppets under Jim's guidance and supervision. It was a great hands on event. Each participant also received a set of patterns and illustrations to better duplicate the marionette contol and adapt it's use with a range of professional puppets. One illustartion is scanned and shown. All of the pages from the workshop are included with the sale of this puppet. THE OVERALL CONDITION IS EXCELLENT Marionette Master - Jim Rose JIM ROSE, son of Rufus and Margo Rose, first performed with marionettes in 1943 in the Rose production of "Rip Van Winkle." He has performed with his own hand puppets since 1947, when he saw Burr Tillstrom's Puppeteers of America Festival performance of Kukla and Ollie in "St. George and the Dragon." Jim worked with his parents and with Martin and Olga Stevens on several film and TV productions, including the WGN-TV Peabody Award-winning "The Blue Fairy" and the Stevens-Rose film, "The Toymaker." He was graduated from Antioch College in 1956. While a student there he appeared in over 40 plays, of which 14 were by William Shakespeare. At the Yale School of Drama, where he received his Master of Fine Arts degree in 1963, he created puppets for a production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and for adaptations of two of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales. " Mr. Rose taught Drama, Art and English in high schools in Chicago and in Connecticut from 1956 until 1960. He taught, for two years, in the Theater Department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and for 19 years, at Antioch College. He has also led numerous workshops at Puppeteers of America Festivals and has taught in the Rose Marionette Workshop at the National Puppetry Conference, held at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Foundation, in Waterford, Connecticut. Since 1982, Mr. Rose has presented his traditional puppets in annual 18th century fairs in The Fair at New Boston, near Springfield, Ohio, at The Faire at the Forks, in Chatham, Ontario, at the Trail of History in McHenry County, Illinois, and at George Washington's Mount Vernon in Virginia. This Marionette is from the estate of a past president of The Puppeteers of America inc. He acquired it from attending the workshop . It resided in his care for the past twenty plus years. While it is tempting to add this to my personal collection, space and practical considerations dictate that I find another suitable "home" for this great little fellow. This would be a very nice addition far a collector with a broad interest in creating and performing puppets. NOTICE TO EBAY BIDDERS THIS AUCTION IS OPEN ONLY TO USA BIDDERS! NO INTERNATIONAL SALES! PAYMENT IS EXCLUSIVELY VIA PAYPAL Your interest in my ebay offerings is greatly appreciated. Thank you for your consideration. read more

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