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erxeteriniessativocate Sensitivity, compassion and magic
portrayed by puppet theatre
Times-Advocate, May 20, 1976
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of sitting around in a general
store observing its inhabitants
and then copying the -facial
features onto puppet heads by an
amused senior citizen who had
witnessed one of her shows.
But as excited as she is about
creating her puppet friends,
Cheryl is obviously twice as
enthusiastic about putting on the
shows.
Her favorite audience consists
of her two children, Rafael and
Simon. Any Saturday night in the
bathroom is a good time and
place for a spontaneous
production of "No Strings
Attached" and while the kids
soak up a little soap and water,
Cheryl's many personalities
cavort before their eyes in the
form of fairy tale characters.
Its jolly good fun for both
performer and mesmerised
observers, and like the name
implies there are no strings at-
tached,
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and show this Saturday at the old
Town Hall to give two puppet
shows, at three and four p.m. The
play. "King Grisley Bear" will
he presented.
• For the summer shows, Cheryl
is planning to use Canadian
plays. to give children a feeling
for folk art in their own country.
One of the plays will be "Jacque
the Woodcutter". a French-
Canadian tale.
Richard Keelan is a musician
and composer. His guitar will
provide musical ac-
companiment for the shows.
adding yet another dimension to
their reality and music. Mary
Ransberry will handle the
puppets along with Cheryl, and
like her conterpart, she creates
the characters out of
imagination, voice inflections
and papier-mache.
Cheryl has become ac-
complished in the art of puppet-
making. She regularly conducts a
puppet making school in London,
teaching children and adults how
to juxtapose paper and paste into
a caricature of life,
Explaining it simply, she says
that the head is first sculptured in
plasticene or modeling clay,
Then the papier-mache is applied
in layered strips, When it is
hardened, the head is slit down
the middle, removed from its
mold and glued back together.
Then paint, a wig, and perhaps a
little cardboard is added,
Painting the faces is just as
important as shaping them and
the fleshtones which Cheryl uses
give the puppets that extra little
touch of "life". Costumes are
elaborate and stitched from
whatever scraps Cheryl can
manage to pick up.
"The structure of the faces are
like unconscious portraits of
people that I have known",
Cheryl says of her uncanny
creations. She was accused once
watch out for that tar, but he just
kept singing and bouncing along.
Finally she walked around
behind the stage and said to me,
"Cheryl, tell him to watch out
before he gets stuck."
She says that the fact that she
was operating a puppet on each
hand doing the voices, and
talking to the little girl at the
same time, didn't ruin the
magical atmosphere of the show,
either for the rest of the audience
or for the little girl.
She observes that while most of
the children know that a human is
operating their favorite puppet
character, they still identify with
the puppet when it talks, even if
there is no stage and the puppet is
quite obviously sitting upon the
hand of the puppeteer.
One thing that she likes to do is
to visit with her audience before
the play begins. "When I talk to
the kids, I know where that little
girl in the pink dress is sitting and
I can relate the characters in the
show to her. For instance, the
Prince might say, 'Sally I really
like that pink dress that you're
wearing today.' Cheryl feels that
getting acquainted aids in
establishing rapport with her
audience and also lends itself to
spontaneity.
"There is a certain kind of
spontaniety that comes with
using hand puppets that you can't
get with marionettes. I feel that I
have better control when I am
behind the puppets and not
removed by strings that you have
to work from above. When the
puppets moves my head moves
with it and the voice seems to be
coming directly from the charac-
ter."
The "No Strings Attached
Puppet Theater" recently
received a grant from Wintario to
put on plays this summer
throughout Huron and Middlesex
Counties. Cheryl and friends will
he at the Exeter Heritage
By LEIGH ROBINSON.
Cheryl Smith of Kirkton has a
simple yet appealing philosophy
concerning her puppets and the
productions she stages along with
Partners, Mary Ransberry and
Richard Keelan and the title of
their puppet theatre says it quite
charmingly, "No Strings
Attached."
Like the unassuming name of
the small production company,
the shows are direbt little
messages of sensitivity, Corn -
passion, and magic — traits
associated with the theatre's
audience, the young and the
young at heart.
The puppets, themselves,
molded from papier-mache
applied to plasticene sculptures,
have their own distinct per-
sonalties, intertwined in faces so
siartingly real that one might
expect to encounter them in a
group of elves and gnomes under
an auspicious shade tree at the
end of a winding road.
The faces aren't scary ---- just a
little more real than one might
expect to find on a mere puppet.
Cheryl would probably object
to one of her friends being called
a -tiiere puppet". To her they are
real characters and she wants
her audience to believe in their
reality just. as much as she does.
Cheryl is something .a little
special in the so-called adult
world. She belives in magic.
"Kids believes in magic", she
will say, . "hut they aren't
mystified by it. They just take it
for granted," She recalls an
incident. several years ago when
she was putting on puppet shows
for children in the Hamilton
library system.
"We were doing Bre'r Rabbit
and this one little girl who I had
been talking to before the show
became very concerned about
him getting stuck in the tar. She
called to him and told him to
says that although it is quite unintentional, her puppet faces often seem
to take on the characteristics of persons she has known. Above, Cheryl
and her favorite puppet theatre audience, Rafael and Simon, visit with
some of their many puppet friends.
EMI&
PUPPET MAKING AS AN ART FORM — Creating a puppet, es-
pecially the head and face, can be as intricate a process as the creator
wants it to be. In Cheryl Smith's case it becomes an artistic venture. She
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A SCENE FROM KING GRISLEY BEAR, the puppet show by "No Strings Attached which will be featured
on Saturday for the Exeter Heritage Foundation's art and crafts show in the upstairs of the Old Town Hall.
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