… and Eileen Blumenthal, since I was happily wading, again, in the gorgeous swirl of her Puppetry: A World History, to B) console myself for not being able to get to the toy theatre blowout in Brooklyn, and A), be ravished anew by the grave and astonishing, rebellious and terrible performance of the eternal corps of extra-human actors she spotlights … Like Ilka Schonbein, say. Put some money in the little girl’s bowl, sir?
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