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MIRACULOUS PUPPETS:
Erin Smith '06, left, and Leslie Weinberg, right, administrative adjunct in theater and costume
designer practice puppetry with "The Boy" and "Don Quixote" inside the
Theater Department's Costume Shop Nov. 8. The puppets were used in two
Wesleyan performances
Nov. 11-13, which were written or inspired by Cervantes (1547-1616. This
year marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of the first part of
Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote.
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Apprentice puppet builder Corrine Zelteman
'06 paints the final touches onto a series
of puppets in Wesleyan's Costume Shop Nov. 8. The Miraculous Puppet
Show, directed by Visiting Assistant Professor of theater Robert Bresnick and musically directed by
Wesleyan Orchestra director and adjunct associate professor of music Angel
Gil-Ordóñez, debuted Nov. 11. Another showing, The Master Peter’s
Puppet Show, will play at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater. Zelteman performed the roles of Melisandre and of Master Peter
in the show.
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Weinberg designed and supervised the
building of all puppets, which were created by Wesleyan students;
Costume Shop Manager Christian Millik and members of Puppetsweat
Theater. (Photos by Olivia Bartlett) |
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