Neville Tranter
Neville Tranter (* 1955 in Warwick , Queensland ) is an Australian puppeteer .
Live and act
Puppet show
Tranter grew up as the son of a miner in Mt. Colliery , Queensland , Australia. After school he wanted to become a teacher. While studying at Toowoomba College , he also attended acting courses from the American actor Robert Gist , with whom he studied for four years. During this time he was already rehearsing with the Billbar Puppet Theater and decided to combine puppetry and acting. His point of view is that the puppets enable him to be a better actor.
After “Stuffed Puppet” took part in the “Festival of Fools” in Amsterdam in 1978, Neville Tranter moved to the Netherlands, where he developed his adult puppet theater into its current form. In his pieces, Tranter plays with life-size snap - mouth dolls with which he interacts on stage. Alone on stage, he handles all the characters himself. Since his first solo piece “Studies in Fantasy” (1981), he has produced 13 other stage pieces, with which he celebrated worldwide success. All pieces are aimed at an adult audience and are characterized by absurdly grotesque scenarios, sometimes disturbing effects and sometimes bitter humor. In many pieces, the distinction between puppets and puppeteers seems to become blurred, for example in “Manipulator”, in which Tranter, in the figure of Nero , is finally transformed from one of his puppets into a frog.
Tranter's probably best-known pieces are the award-winning “Molière” and “Schicklgruber alias Adolf Hitler”, in which the last few days are played in the Führerbunker , with Tranter in the role of valet Linge, including at the Vienna Festival in 2003 and in 2004 the RuhrTriennale 2004 could be seen.
Tranter's piece “Cuniculus” is a parable on the preservation and loss of humanity. Tranter plays the person "Four Eyes", who survived a devastating war in a rabbit hole under the battlefield and only slowly realizes that he is different.
In the play "Mathilde" Tranter plays life in a retirement home in an impressive and very emotional way. As the figure of death, Tranter accompanies the main character Mathilde into death with the greatest respect and care.
painting
Tranter’s creative skills are also recognized outside the theater. His dolls and paintings have been exhibited internationally many times, including in the Snug Harbor Cultural Center Gallery, Staten Island , New York, the Tafelhalle Nürnberg or the KunstCentret in Silkeborg, Denmark .
Others
In addition to his work as a puppeteer, Neville Tranter regularly gives workshops and master classes and is a guest lecturer at theater schools. In Germany, for example, at Hof Lebherz in Warmsen and at the Puppet Theater College in Bochum .
Pieces
- 1981: Studies in Fantasy
- 1984: The Seven Deadly Sins
- 1985: Manupilator & Underdog
- 1988: Room 5
- 1990: Macbeth!
- 1993: The Nightclub
- 1994: Kaspar Hauser , with Beppe Costa and Ria Marks
- 1996: Salomé
- 1996: Macbeth! Video production
- 1998: Molière
- 1999: RE: Frankenstein , with Reinmar Henschke, Harald Kündgen, Wolf Dix and the ant children
- 2000: RE: Frankenstein with music by Ferdinand Bakker and Kim Haworth
- 2003: Schicklgruber, alias Adolf Hitler . Coproduction of the Stuffed Puppet Theater with Kleine Spui, Schauspielhaus Wien, Wiener Festwochen and Novapool Berlin
- 2006: Vampyr (co-production with Schauspielhaus Wien)
- 2008: Cuniculus (coproduction with RuhrTriennale)
- 2009: Punch and Judy in Afghanistan
- 2012: Mathilde
- 2015: The King
- 2017: Babylon
Awards
- 1989: Puppet Theater Award Festival Erlangen
- 1993: Kleinkunstpreis Wilhelmshavener Knurrhahn of the city of Wilhelmshaven, for The Nightclub
- 1996: Cabaret Prize of the City of Schwerte , for Macbeth!
- 2001: Best performance World Festival of Puppet Art in Prague for Moliere
- 2001: Sirene d'oro - Arrivano dal Mare, Cervia
- 2002: Youth Jury Prize - Synergura, Erfurt for Moliere
- 2002: Grand Prix - PIF , Zagreb, for Moliere
- 2004: Cabaret Prize of the city of Schwerte for Schicklgruber, alias Adolf Hirler
- 2004: Grand Prix - Festival Baj Pomorski, Toruń
- 2005: Wim Meilink Prijs (Award from the Dutch Association for Puppetry)
- 2007: PIF , Zagreb
- 2007: Best Actor Award, Spectaculo Interest, Ostrava for Vampyr
literature
- Don Rubin: The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theater: Asia / Pacific . Routledge, London 2001, ISBN 0-415-05933-X , p. 165. ( Google books )
- Otis L. Guernsey, Jeffrey Sweet, Al Hirschfeld: Theater Yearbook. The best plays of 1997–1998 . Limelight Editions, New York, NY 1998, ISBN 0879102713 , p. 276.
- Henryk Jurkowski, Penny Francis: History of European Puppetry: The Twentieth Century . Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston 1998, ISBN 0-7734-8322-5 , pp. 458ff.
- Lara Hausleitner: "Macbeth!" - A production by the puppeteer Neville Tranter . University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Master's thesis, 1997.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c ... puppets have helped me become a better actor. They can portray every aspect of the human soul from innocence to evil. And they can do this with an incredible honesty. The fantasy maker . The Jerusalem Post, May 21, 2007.
- ^ Theater in Review . The New York Times, September 12, 1992
- ↑ Holzkopf Hitler . Der Standard, September 3, 2003
- ↑ Schicklgruber alias Adolf Hitler ( Memento from September 12, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). Stuttgarter Nachrichten, June 2, 2005
- ↑ Puppet Theater Festival: Absurd fairy tale in the rabbit hole ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . May 18, 2009.
- ↑ About rabbits and humans . The West, October 12, 2008.
- ↑ Great puppeteer . NZZ, February 15, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tranter, Neville |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian puppeteer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Australia |