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Actually two great things! Having watched "History of Theatre 1 - From Ritual to Theatre", I saw the shape of the theatre begin to take shape, looking more like the stage I'm familiar with today. They described the earliest traveling performer as having a Thespis Cart and I instantly thought of Medieval Troupes and then Circuses of PT Barnum and The Wild West Travelling Show of Wild Bill Hickok. It struck me that we call actors "Thespians" and it was Thespis that won the first competitive theatre in Athens in 534 B.C. during the festival "City of Dionysia" . I do like the history of it all coming through into present day similarities. 

When watching the Ningyo Johruri Bunraku puppet performance, I marveled that the female puppets did not have feet. and the scale of the puppets were so reduced as to allow a very large scene to unfold onstage. When they first presented the sailor stuck on an island the amount of the setting that was water gave an impression of being marooned on the rock. By contrast, the Warhorse was life sized and also took three men also to manipulate it. Both appeared lifelike to me in action.
This chapter has come to life for me. 

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