Here's - Center for Puppetry Arts

Magon, Jero
Staging the Puppet
Show PN1972 .M27 1976
widen the horizon of the
puppet producer by exploring
a variety of ways of mounting
a show. Emphasis will be
placed on concepts of staging
and production techniques.
The ideas set down here are
the result of forty years'
experience in live and puppet
stagecraft. While great
progress has been made in
the last half-century in
perfecting the mechanical
aspects of puppet-making, few
changes have been made in
concepts of stagecraft. The
pattern for marionette
production in this country was
set by the late Tony Sarg in
the 1920's. Sarg was a great
pioneer in the twentieth
century puppet revival, and did
more than anyone wlse ot
popularize marionettes with
the American public. However,
Sarg was primarily a
commercial showman, not an
experimenter. Having devised
a successful formula for his English Miami Press