It’s the plain black Venetian mask, the one that’s creepy as fuck. It’s also called “servetta muta”, mute handmaiden. Do you know why? Hint, it’s not because it doesn’t have a hole for the mouth: it’s much creepier than that.
During the 1960s, around twenty years after building concepts and characters for what had become the Toad segment in The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr._Toad, at Walt Disney Studios they started working on two stories that are weirdly connected to The Wind in the Willows: the play Chantecler by Edmond Rostand, which was supposed to […]
As I was saying, Saturday is the peak of our Carnival, here in Milan, so I’ve decided to bring you a miscellaneous of illustrations, costume, masks and everything that makes this celebration so special. In every other region, Carnival starts tomorrow: I hope I was able to bring you in the mood, even if this […]
I’m sure you were expecting a Fairy Friday, so I thought I would surprise you. Especially since I might have given you the impression that i don’t like frogs, given the way I talked about poor silly Toad of Toad Hall in my Wind in the Willows series and I wouldn’t want Kermit to feel […]
Another absolutely lovely kind of pieces you can fetch for your indoor celebration of Carnival is the Shadow Theatre so, with a bit of cheating, I bring you some Shadow Theatres on this Thursday. It is usually considered a prelude to cinematography and uses flat cut-out figures, one piece or articulated, that are held between […]
After Marionette Monday and Troll Tuesday, here we are with our third day in preparation of the Carnival: Wizard Wednesday. Today I bring you a selection of marionettes and hand puppets of wizards, for your indoor street theatre. Radagast the Brown At Squeaking Tribe, Australian based artists Sol and Sara do handmade marionettes of fantastical […]
No, it’s not a Tuesday in which we troll people: it’s just the natural second day of preparation for Carnival, after a generic Marionette Monday. Today I’ll try and bring you artists who worked on Troll marionettes, hand/finger puppets and masks, for your indoor street theatre. Belgian Masks and Hand Puppets At Theater Didymus, the […]
In preparation for the Carnival, I’m doing a Marionette Monday: this means that today I’m bringing you independent artist who produces marionettes and I’ll also try and give you one or more stories you can try and stage with them. One of Eyvind Earl’s incredible concepts for Sleeping Beauty. The Queen, Carabosse and the Golden […]
Well, we came out of Christmas and I was really sad, but January is gone and we have something di look forward to, at last. Carnival is a festive season of street parties, masks, parades and theatrical improvisation. It is usually between February and March, during the preparation period historically known as Shrovetide, and its […]