music and tales
We cannot discuss creepy puppets and dolls without discussing the modern masters of creepy dolls: The Brother Quay and Jan Svankmajer. We shall touch upon the great Jan Svankmajer at a later date, perhaps even tomorrow. For today let us […]
Don’t worry, i’m not going to post about theatrical puppetry forever, but this company is worth having their own post. Snuff Puppets is a theatrical puppet company based in Melbourne Australia. They have… an “archaic sense of fun” and their […]
Before we get underway let me give updates as they’re happening. After careful consideration there WILL be a KIckstarter/Indiegogo campaign. We want and need this to be the best possible production we can manage. We want and need the people […]
We will be doing our first workshop performance of The Dolls Of New Albion the week of Nov 26th at the Oval House Theater in South London. The performance will feature Lauren Osborn (who it is my mission to make […]
Rant. Let me start by saying i have never heard Justin Bieber. I have never heard a Justin Bieber song. Not once. If i did i had no idea and tuned it out. I hope he and his family are well. I […]
Stay tuned for important announcements about the first official workshop performance of The Steampunk Opera in London later this year and the Indiegogo campaign to help fund it. For today… don’t ask me why but i got a hankering to […]
Among the lush and gorgeous Victorian art movement known as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were artists who not only painted narrative paintings, that is paintings that tell a complex situation in their details, but more so and more novelly, did so […]
By the mid 1800s there finally existed a plethora of Rosicrucian groups, all practicing various forms of western esotericism and occultism, most with a Christian mystical bent. Many claimed to have descended from the original Rosicrucians of the 1400-1600s, but as no […]
So, to recap, from 1614 to 1616 three tracts were published in Germany claiming to be from an underground Order of highly knowledgable wise guys possessing all sorts of esoteric secrets of the universe. It was actually a small group […]
In discussing colorful forms of spiritualism in the Victorian era, we would be quite remiss is we ignored the group that started it all, that brought medieval hermeticism, western esotericism and occultism into the Renaissance and paved the way for much […]