RAT Article about Ronnie Burkett on Reuters

["Adam" <kafclown@well.com>]

Tuesday February 20 2:05 PM ET FEATURE

CANADIAN PUPPETEER REINVENTS
THEATER FOR ADULTS

By Leah Eichler

TORONTO (Reuters) - ``Happy,'' a painfully sad theater production
questioning whether happiness is the lot of only a select few, has moved
audiences to tears in both Canada and Germany and will open in London in
June.

Ordinarily, there would be nothing unusual about people weeping as actors
explore painful human frailties, emotions and experience, but this
performance has no actors -- only puppets.

This will not surprise those familiar with the Ronnie Burkett Theater of
Marionettes. The puppeteer, who has performed across Canada, England,
Ireland, Germany, the United States and Australia, has designed a signature
brand of theater marrying serious text with a medium usually dismissed as
childish.

``All I wanted to do was discuss humanity, and the form I am using to
discuss it is non-human. It's funny, isn't it?'' the man seen as the bad boy
of the puppet world asked mischievously.

TO READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE, GO TO
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010220/en/stage-puppetry_1.html



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