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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1976-05-20, Page 45I Gabian Stone Calcium Chloride in 100 pound bags Sand & Stone Gravel Stone for Weeping Beds EARL LIPPERT TRUCKING LTD. Crediton 234-6382 RAP ANNOUNCES Tennis Registration • * Monday, July 19th (Afternoons and Evenings) — Monday, August 9th. PEES: These rates have been tentatively set at $1100 per session of 9 lessons, but they will have been finalized by registration time. All spots are booked on a first come, first served basis. • Maximum of 12 participants per class. For more details call the Recreation Office 235-0391 WILL BE HELD ON Thu rsday, May 20 ---7:00-9:00 p.m. and Saturda)i, May 29 —1:00-3:00 p.m. EXETER PUBLIC SCHOOL GYM — Victoria St. E. • INSTRUCTION will be provided for both children and adults at two levels — beginners and intermediate, • LESSONS will run for one hour per day on Monday, Wednes- day and Thursday, for 3 weeks — a total of 9 hours of instruc- tion. • 4 SESSIONS, beginning on Monday, May 31st. 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Takes staples up to fx•eferZinesaboxate Sensitivity, compassion and magic portrayed by puppet theatre Times-Advocate, May 20, 1976 Page 17 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 ;he 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. PUPPET MAKING AS AN ART FORM — Creating a puppet, 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 es- says thqt 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. Foundation arts and crafts sale 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 be presented. For the summer shows, Ch,ftyl is planning to use Canadian plays, to give children a feeling for folk art in their own country. One of the plays will he "Jacque the Woodcutter", a French- Canadian tale. Richard Keelan is a musician and composer. His guitar will providemusical 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. "l'he 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. i"inally 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 be 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 Keolan 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 direct little messages of sensitivity, com- 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 startingly 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 "mere 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. • . "but 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 • r Special Offer! :WV Regular $329.90 •Powerful 2 H.P. Direct Drive Motor *3420 Full Load RPM •120-Volt AC A powerful Black and Decker 'DEWALT' at a special low price! Roller head rides on 2 precision machined tracks inside arm on 4 shielded. lifetime lubricated ball bear- ings. 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