The Puppetry Journal - Spring 2008
Volume 59, No. 3
2 - COVER STORY: The World of Ax * Meet Steve Axtell and Axtell Expressions * by Bob Abdou; 4 - Larry Smith Day - by Wayne Martin; 8 - Life Among the Giants * Using Puppets and Perspective to Help Stage Roald Dahl's "The BFG" * - by Drew Allison; 10 - Puppets, Pens & Performances * A Conversation with Val Hilliker" - (Val Hilliker and PJ); 12 - At Large - by Paul Eide: Festival DVD ready, Change in POA membership year, Puppets at the Craft and Folk Art Museum, COPA name change, May Day Parade in Minneapolis, Toy Theater Festival in NYC, BIMP- Puppets Through the Lens, Stop motion "Peter and the Wolf", Puppets in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall, "A Plumm Summer" and the disappearance of Froggy-Doo, "War Horse" - horses on stage in London, Puppets in Met Production of Phillip Glass Opera, Peace Through Puppets going strong; 17 - Puppet Elements in Offenbach's "Orpheus in the Underworld" - by Larry Engler; 18 - Puppets on the Sound * A Conversation with Steven Widerman * (Steven Widerman and PJ); 27 - World Puppetry Festival / UNIMA Congress in Perth, Australia - by Steve Abrams; COLUMNS 21 - A Bob's Eye View, by Bob Nathanson; 29 - Scene East, by Steve Abrams; 30 - Scene West, by Beth Fernandez; 31 - Scene Between, by Monica Leo and Teri Jean Breitbach; 32 - Poor Alan's Almanack, by Alan Cook; INTO THE SHOP 22 - The Unberable Remarkable Lightness of Model Magic - by Chris Fehring; BOOKS 5 - Diary of a Doll Wiggler * A Bob's Eye View into the Wacky & Wonderful World of Puppetry - by Bob Nathanson, reviewed by Paul Eide; IN MEMORIAM 25 - Matt Adler - by Alice and Lisa Rhodes - Atlanta Journal Constitution; 25 - Elsie Dunnington - by Rita Fullen, Richard McClead; 26 - Karen Rae Banks - by Frank Banks, Rita Fullen; COVER: Steve Axtell with his very first Axtell puppet, made at the age of six. Photo: Courtesy of Axtell Expressions
