The Magic Pudding single work   drama   children's   adventure   humour  
Adaptation of The Magic Pudding : Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and His Friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff Norman Lindsay , 1918 single work children's fiction
Issue Details: First known date: 1960... 1960 The Magic Pudding
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  • 'In 1960, puppeteer Peter Scriven adapted The Magic Pudding as a marionette puppet show. When he submitted his ideas to [Norman] Lindsay, the artist produced 40 drawings of his classic Magic Pudding characters as well as illustrations for background scenery. These became the design basis for Scriven's puppets, re-creating Lindsay's original characters for a new medium and a new audience.'

    Source: 'The Magic Pudding: Watercolours by Norman Lindsay' exhibition guide, State Library of New South Wales, website, http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/
    Sighted: 07/01/2009

Production Details

  • Produced by the Marionette Theatre Company's Tintookie puppets at Her Majesty's Theatre, Brisbane, 3 June 1960 and a month later at the Elizabethan Theatre, Newtown, Sydney.

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The Magic Pudding: Watercolours by Norman Lindsay State Library of New South Wales , 2008 collection art work

An exhibition of early illustrations from Norman Lindsay's original drawings for The Magic Pudding (1918) together with the puppet watercolours drawn for Peter Scriven's 1960 marionette puppet show of the children's classic. The exhibition also includes some of Scriven's puppets.

'All works on paper are by Norman Lindsay (1879-1969). Items 1-15 are watercolours purchased in 2008. Items 16-19 were received by bequest of Sir William Dixson in 1952. Puppets were produced for the Magic Pudding puppet show by Peter Scriven (1930-1998) and are kindly lent by SBW/NIDA Archives and Performing Arts Collection.'

Source: The State Library of New South Wales website, http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/
Sighted: 07/01/2009
The Magic Pudding: Watercolours by Norman Lindsay State Library of New South Wales , 2008 collection art work

An exhibition of early illustrations from Norman Lindsay's original drawings for The Magic Pudding (1918) together with the puppet watercolours drawn for Peter Scriven's 1960 marionette puppet show of the children's classic. The exhibition also includes some of Scriven's puppets.

'All works on paper are by Norman Lindsay (1879-1969). Items 1-15 are watercolours purchased in 2008. Items 16-19 were received by bequest of Sir William Dixson in 1952. Puppets were produced for the Magic Pudding puppet show by Peter Scriven (1930-1998) and are kindly lent by SBW/NIDA Archives and Performing Arts Collection.'

Source: The State Library of New South Wales website, http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/
Sighted: 07/01/2009
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