PANELS

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Photo: Carnegie Hall Presents The New York Pops “The Marvelous Marilyn Maye” The New York Pops Steven Reineke, Music Director and Conductor Marilyn Maye, Guest Artist concert photographed: Friday, March 23, 20223; 8:00 PM at Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall; Photograph: © 2022 RICHARD TERMINE PHOTO CREDIT – RICHARD TERMINE

Monday, April 17th 2p-4 @ The Mudlark Public Theatre

A follow-up and extension of last year’s “What is a Puppet Not” Conversation, this Elite Conference will explore the role of puppetry in the contemporary (dying :D) World (with an exfoliating global map of companies and career opportunities), what its role could be for Ill and Worse, how some of the broad (/metaphorical) possibilities of the genre are failing and creaking by, and what Visionary Anti-Puppetry might be – in the run-up to the Anti-Puppet Anti-Akademie this year in Charleville-Mezieres France, sept 11-16 (please come). How is puppetry stuck? What are its cliches, ruts and holes? What is to be Done?!

Expect: A Panel of Expert Puppets discoursing briefly around these issues followed by breakout groups, a Q & A, and long-standing nightmares.

Questions: (for Puppets and Humans both)

****Please Come Prepared with some answers to the following questions:****
(if you have these written out already, that’s amazing.)
1. What is the [impossible?] puppet show you have been waiting to see your whole life? Please explain and describe it.
2. What is Bad Puppetry? (norms, education, ideology… be specific)
3. How can puppetry birth or Be the revolutionary catalyst to (a) gash an eternal rift in the space time continuum and bring this sodden universe to a horrific slurpy close, (b) with deft tactical precision unite the non/human hordes in utopic solidarity to overthrow the yoke of capital and usher in the Ten Billion Year Anarchist Reich, OR (c) [you choose]
4. Other General and Specific Problems you notice, feel or experience in Puppetism write large that we might address (local or universal).