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As will your puppets if you let others handle them...getting back to the original thread (clever huh?!). A friend worked on The Ronn Lucas Show here in the UK (Ronn doing Ventriloquism, with different variety acts each week) as Assistant Puppeteer and Puppet Rigger, caring for the puppets...

Both Russia and the Czech Republic have completley different attidudes to puppetry from the people of the UK and the USA it is seen as a much more mainstream artform. An artform worthy of government support and funding. In the UK especially, puppetry is mainly seen as something for children...

Yes. Always useful. Always interesting to see the divide in terms of health and safety standards with the various glues also. Whilst some builders on this side of 'the big blue wet thing' are very careful the majority are quite happy working with the fumes. I remember speaking to a puppeteer...

Sorry, keep forgetting the big watery thing between us has a habit of changing things! Keep up the good work. J

Duck Tape, Duct Tape, Gaffer's Tape, Gaffer Tape, Gaffa Tape. Pretty much all the same thing, but can vary in price tremendously.

Feather + Pair of scissors + A bit of patience...

A good performance by Louise Gold this evening as the Queen from Spitting Image, though vocally sounding much closer to Louise's own voice than she has in the past. Though interesting to see that Fluck and Law weren't involved in the programme.

Thanks Mike, very much appreciated. It's been printed off, enlarged on the photocopier and filed ready for use. All best wishes, James

Superb, as ever!

And indeed removable legs and tails, again attached with press studs.

The Fraggles also all had removable arm rods. It does make sense, especially for TV work where you may jusy want to pin an arm into place for some shots.

"flat felt with an adhesive backing" As point of reference it's official name is 'contact paper'. J

Why use the Muppets though? Couldn't you use another character, one of your own, and write words to an original, or non puppet related score? My two cents anyway James

Mike Quinn pops up from time to time to comment. J

I was working at the PJF Festival in Covent Garden, London, on Sunday and it was a pleasure to see Richard Coombs' Punch and Judy show again. We worked together at the Buxton festival earlier this year but this was the first time Richard's new show had been performed in front of Punch and Judy...

In response to Buckbeavers post Warrick the best English equivalent to these glues is Impact, made by Evostick, but make sure you don't use the solvent free type. Scott foam supplier in London is Pentonville Rubber Company, Pentonville Road (nr Kings X). re Patterns, you could try making...

Sad, sad news. But Jerry has left behind a legacy that I for one, and am sure many others, will treasure for many years to come.

It really wasn't good! The lip synch was also out at times, and she was sitting too far forward of the first chair, with costume fabric continually rustling over the performer's mic. Piggy unscripted this morning was a shame, but the bit with Charlotte Church the previous night, which was...

The British TV programme Softies, made by Hands Up Puppets, used internal arm rods quite a lot. A friend rigged for them, so I'll try and get the details of the mechs. J

The Harlequin Puppet Theatre has an excellent backstage section dealing with a number of marionette issues (construction, manipulation, and various controls). Chris Somerville, who currently runs the theatre, and his late partner Eric Brammall who founded the theatre wrote an excellent book...