Punch and Judy Evil Wizard Hand Puppet - munabo ART
Evil Wizard hand puppet by munabo, rear view of the black pointed hat over shoulder-length hair.
Evil Wizard hand puppet by munabo, turned to the side with a stern look and black moustache.
Evil Wizard hand puppet by munabo, close-up of the face with slanted eyebrows and a black moustache.
€30.67
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The Evil Wizard: a Punch and Judy hand puppet from the munabo ART series. The Evil Wizard hand puppet wears a tall black pointed hat with a purple robe; a dark moustache and stern eyebrows give him his grim look. Because the soft fabric head is embroidered, shaped and painted entirely by hand, the brows sit a little differently from one Evil Wizard to the next. The light figure, made for children's and adults' hands alike, comes from a traditional craft workshop in the Czech Republic.
The Evil Wizard brings the spell into the play, and the counter-spell brings in the children. Once he has cast his spell, it is the audience's turn, and everyone joins in. Few characters invite this much participation: a transformed princess, a vanished treasure or a bewitched Kasper all pose problems that courage cannot solve. Only the right word can. As Kasper's adversary, the Evil Wizard stirs up trouble, and in the end the right word breaks the spell.
Did you know that Doctor Faustus too made his way across the puppet stage as a wizard? Travelling marionette players were performing the tale of the pact with the devil in Germany by the eighteenth century. The first documented performance of the Faust puppet play took place in Hamburg in 1746. In Bohemia the puppeteer Matěj Kopecký had it in his repertoire. Goethe saw such a performance as a boy in Frankfurt and, in his autobiography, calls the Faust puppet play an early spark for his own work.
WARNING! Not suitable for children under 36 months, contains small parts and small balls, choking or suffocation hazard.
MORAVSKÁ ÚSTŘEDNA BRNO
družstvo umělecké výroby
Bohunická 576/52
619 00 Brno - Horní Heršpice
Czech Republic
Email: info@mubrno.cz
| Head material: | sewn fabric head |
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| Type: | hand puppet, Punch and Judy figure |
| Playability: | arms, head |
| Height approx.: | 42 cm |