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28. Answer these questions about the text.
1. Which of the puppets are controlled:
a) from above?
b) from below?
2. How long are the Punch and Judy and the wayang kulit showed?
3. Which characters make audiences laugh?
4. Which form of puppetry do you think is the most skilful? Why?
5. Find adjectives in the third paragraph which show that Tchantches:
dislikes work, wants a lot of everything, is not very intelligent, is kind, often starts arguments, is gentle and loving.
Vocabulary Practice
29. Find related words in the text to complete these charts.
| NOUN | ADJECTIVE |
| tradition | ..... |
| wood | ..... |
| basis | ..... |
| comedy | ..... |
| quarrel | ..... |
| history | ..... |
| religion | ..... |
| VERB | NOUN |
| entertain | ..... |
| vary | ..... |
| argue | ..... |
| perform | ..... |
30. Complete the sentences using the words from the box.
to carry auditorium presentation audiences productions ran
influence supported attempt plays contribution
In the United States the artistic puppet revival was largely inspired by Ellen Van Volkenburg at the Chicago Little Theatre with (1)________ that included A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1916. She later directed (2) _____ for Tony Sarg, who became the most important (3) _________in American puppetry, with such large-scale marionette plays as Rip Van Winkle, The Rose and the Ring, and Alice in Wonderland. A small group, the Yale Puppeteers, created a theatre in Hollywood, the Turnabout Theatre, that combined human and puppet stages at opposite ends of the (4)______________ and attracted fashionable (5)____________ for its songs and sketches from 1941 to 1956. Bill Baird (6)__________ a puppet theatre in Greenwich Village, New York City, for some years from 1967 and made a great (7)_____________ to every aspect of puppetry. Professional puppetry there has developed in the main ways: in large, commercially (8) productions for television; in socially involved, such as the Bread and Puppet Theatre, which uses giant puppets (9)____________ a political or idealistic message; and at the other end of the scale as a medium for intimate table-top (10) _________ by artist such as Bruce Schwartz, who makes no (11)______ to conceal himself as he handles a single figure with great delicacy.
VOCABULARY 6
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