In the United States a series featuring the Kuklapolitans, created by Burr Tillstrom, began airing in 1947 Kukla, a small boy, had a host of friends, including Ollie the Dragon, who exchanged repartee with Fran Allison, a human actress standing outside the booth.
In England, for instance, Muffin the Mule and his animal friends, manipulated by Ann Hogarth, appeared from 1946 on the top of a piano at which Annette Mills played and sang. Several programs designed for television, sometimes combining puppets with human performers, did, however, gain great success. A straight transference of a puppet production to the television screen proved not to be effective, and puppet acts on television were often limited to short presentations on variety shows. At first sight, television would seem an ideal medium for puppetry, and many puppet shows have in fact appeared on it, but initially the great possibilities that it seemed to offer were not fully realized. There are cruise ships and nightclubs, which provide an opportunity for short turns but obviously no scope for serious drama. There are some possible means of performance beyond the children’s theatre. If a few companies do continue to present performances of quality, this is a tribute to their dedication to their art. Even those theatres that do play for children face great economic difficulties from the small size of audience to which puppets can play and from the modest admission fees that can be charged to children.
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No professional puppet theatre can exist in the West on a purely adult repertoire. But others are eager to play also on an adult level and, for these, audiences are few. Some puppeteers are happy to play only for children. They certainly do provide a kind of theatre to which children respond with enthusiasm, and, in the general development of children’s theatre, the puppet theatre has a part to play. Puppets are increasingly regarded as an entertainment only for children. Punch and Judy on the English beaches and Guignol in the parks of Paris still draw a crowd, but the indoor theatres that once attracted humble audiences survive with difficulty, usually with the aid of a sympathetic town council or a local museum. The audiences for the traditional folk theatres have almost disappeared. The puppet theatre in the contemporary world faces great difficulties and great opportunities. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.Britannica Beyond We’ve created a new place where questions are at the center of learning.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.
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