Marionette Of The Labyrinth
Julieann Rohde
While navigating through the Goblin King's titular labyrinth, Sarah frequently encounters an obstacle or two blocking her path. Or, in this case, four of them. In order to pass through one of the two doors these four guards are protecting, she needs to solve a brain-teasing riddle. If these puppets look like playing cards to you that's entirely by design. "Those are playing cards," Froud confirms. "The impulse initially was, like with so many things, Punch & Judy. It's just having a square with a hole in it and a puppet that peers over the top. I thought that was great, but also a bit boring. What I like about playing cards is that you have heads at the top and the bottom, so we could put a puppeteer down below."
Flash-forward three decades, though, and a Labyrinth sequel is currently in the works at TriStar Pictures. And while Froud isn't involved in that project, he'd be excited to see new filmmakers revisit that world that he, Henson and the rest of the film's creative team invented. "Because Labyrinth takes place in a labyrinth, around every corner you can come across a new adventure. It can literally go off in all sorts of directions. It's also very dreamlike, so you can play around with time and space. It's always a world you could return to at any point in the story or any point in time."
Jim Henson's quirky puppets have become beloved over the years, but the Hoggle puppet from Labyrinth became lost after the film wrapped in a bizarre turn of events. Labyrinth sees a young girl named Sarah wish away her little brother, Toby, to the Goblin King, only to discover that he's real and she actually wants her little brother back. The Goblin King places Toby at the center of his labyrinth, which Sarah has to navigate while meeting friends, foes and oddballs along the way. Of this varied cast of characters, Hoggle is undoubtedly one of the most beloved, making the puppet's disappearance all the more inexplicable.
Hoggle is the first creature that Sarah meets on her quest to enter the labyrinth. He's a short and grumpy creature with a strange affinity for jewelry. The Goblin King, iconically performed by David Bowie, orders Hoggle to trick Sarah and lead her back to the beginning of the labyrinth, and Hoggle is constantly caught between caring for Sarah and sabotaging her. His moral ambiguity and clash of alliances make him a complicated character who drives a central point of the narrative, and his story arc was a large part of the film.
The first gallery is a global puppetry gallery. You see historical puppets from across the globe\u2014different types (marionette, hand puppet, shadow puppets, etc.) with different meanings and uses. There were interactive pieces where you could work a shadow puppet, or stand in the performer\u2019s spot behind marionettes and realize that there are mirrors below the puppets for the puppeteer\u2019s to watch their work. There were specific puppets I recognized\u2014 like Punch & Judy, or the Scar and Mufasa head pieces from The Lion King on Broadway\u2014and plenty more that I never would\u2019ve known about.
Halloween has been over for a week now, and yet people STILL don't do the Public Marionette. I have tried, many times, to run a Public Marionette Instance, ferrying people from the Karka Queen timing to Public marionette. And most time it fails because many of the people are unfamiliar with the mechanics (especially for Lane 2).
I get an easy public run every day at 12:00 UTC at least. I have never been able get a marionette run straight on reset or just after it so maybe adjusting your time might help? People definitely do it, and it feels organised too as a sort of hive mind and there has been 4/5 comms every time I've done it ?
Marionettes are puppets controlled by strings. Strings have been used to move puppets of different styles, shapes, and levels of complexity. Though there's no telling when the first string puppet was used, in the western world, they originated from the medieval times in France, where the term "marionette" originates, and can be found in every country in the world.
Taking Care: Puppets and Their Collectors, curated by Dr. Jungmin Song, will showcase some of the highlights of the collections including 1930s marionettes, Sicilian pupi, Chinese shadow figures, African rod puppets, overhead projector innovations, and Frank Ballard musicals, along with backstories explaining how this global array of puppets came to the Ballard Institute. Taking Care will explore puppet collecting as a vital cultural activity, delving into the various reasons donors dedicate themselves to the preservation of puppetry's heritage. The exhibition will be on display through June 16, 2024.
Come see an eye-catching array of over 150 puppets from around the world (15 different countries) as we celebrate creativity and the ingenuity of people from a variety of world cultures. Also included are puppets that represent our own American favorites from movies and stories. Latest additions are Bross marionettes from Germany and an exciting display of Mexican puppets . . . Viva los titeres!!!
We feature a puppet show, hands-on exhibits, puppet craft time and several informal wide mouth puppet folk tales. We work with visitors' schedules for the other activities. You can call to schedule in advance, or show up at the door. Puppet tours and workshops available by appointment.
Just like Labyrinth of Refrain, the sequel, Labyrinth of Galleria offers a dungeon-crawling experience, but with new quality-of-life improvements and 50+ hours of exploration. With 50+ hours you get to fight monsters, get treasures, map out the labyrinth, and try to get out of there alive.
Labyrinth of Galleria offers a cast of customizable puppets that will perform your bidding in addition to 50 hours of adventure and dungeon-crawling activities with various quality-of-life additions.
This gives you control over how you use your equipment and marionettes during a battle inside the maze.
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When the bear marionettes were finished, we encouraged kids to pull books off the shelves and use them to create mountains, walls, ramps, bridges, and paths for their bears to travel across. A few kids also made cozy little places for the bear to nap. Awwwww!
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[Access article in PDF] Ten Theses to Subvert a Work (A Manifesto) Allen S. Weiss Bizarre anatomy: the mute face of Novarina, the polyphonic voices of Whitehead, the electronic borborygmi of Migone, the resonant backbeat of Konzelmann, the cosmic hands of Sussman, the cruel eye of Paré, the esoteric brain of Weiss. Who's there? A monster of sorts. A wireless marionette, an actor without body, a voice without origin, a body without organs. Not phantasms, but frozen mutations of language, following Novarina's injunction: "articulatory cruelty, linguistic carnage." Liberate language, fracture speech, worsen the word through logological proliferation, through onomastic frenzy. Transform theatre: from trompe l'oeil to trompe l'oreille.
This manifesto is based on Allen S. Weiss's "Dix thèses pour détourner une oeuvre," which was commissioned by Alternatives théâtrales No. 72 (2002) on the occasion of the French production of Théâtre des Oreilles (Theatre of the Ears), a play for electronic marionette and recorded voice. The US production was sponsored by the California Institute of the Arts and the Cotsen Center for Puppetry and the Arts. The production team included: Valère Novarina (text); Allen S. Weiss (conception, translation, and adaptation); Zaven Paré and Allen S. Weiss (direction); Gregory Whitehead (sound montage and voices); Christof Migone and Scott Konzelmann (additional sound); Zaven Paré (décor and electronic marionette); Mark Sussman (puppetry); Jon Gottlieb (French sound design); Léopold von Verschuer (French voices); and Mark Sussman (French lighting design). To listen to a selection from the production, please visit
Henson created interaction between humans and Muppets--his term for a cross between puppets and marionettes--with complex, three-dimensional settings and crew members concealed in trenches or behind walls.
Visitors got to ride a small Ferris wheel adorned with drawings by Jean-Michel Basquiat. They could waltz inside a cylindrical pavilion created by David Hockney. They could wind through Roy Lichtenstein's pop art glass labyrinth, with music by Philip Glass; Fairgoers could also walk inside a mirrored geodesic dome decorated by surrealist Salvador Dalí, and they could ride a carousel painted with bright graffiti figures spray painted by Keith Haring.
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