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    Your Punch and Judy Characters

It’s no show without Punch, but the other characters are just as important -
they add the spice and contrast which makes the play interesting to your
audience, whether you’re performing a traditional version or a heavily adapted
one.

Performers have constantly adapted their “Punch and Judy” shows through
the centuries, removed less popular characters and added new ones. That’s
one of the reasons behind the show’s continuing appeal.
Mr. Punch
Mr. Punch

Originally, Punch looked as rough as he behaved. He had a sharply curved
nose and a large hump on his back. These features are still common, to
varying degrees, with many shows but there’s no real need to make your
Punch a bizarre caricature.

Punch will have the largest head of the “human” characters in your show. Even
Judy’s head will be a bit smaller.

His costume is usually red and yellow. His hat may be a real one, attached to
his head or you may do what I have done – get the hat moulded as part of
the head. If you want, you could have the shape of the hat moulded on and
then fix a cloth hat over it. If you do this, then you will need to make the hat
so that it may be removed for cleaning from time to time.

An important part of Punch’s outfit is his stick. Its length should be about
equal to half the distance from his hands to the top of his hat - no longer
because it will be too difficult to handle, at least until you have some
experience. I saw one performer who used a clap-stick* but the sound was
not sufficient to be heard. An ordinary piece of light-weight wood is sufficient.

An important feature of the traditional character is the Punch voice, usually
achieved with a swazzle. This is usually made from metal with a piece of thin,
flexible plastic or leather across the center. Put this between your teeth and
speak through it, then your voice becomes distorted and a bit screechy.

I feel that there are a couple of problems with this device for me. Unless your
intended audience has grown up with the traditional style of a Punch and Judy
show, they’ll probably find it hard to understand what the character is saying.
That may not be a problem if you practice moving your puppet to the point
where you can convey or reinforce the meaning of everything he is saying
through the puppet’s actions. But, maybe you can avoid making the audience
work really hard to understand what your main character is saying by just
omitting the swazzle.

Then, apart from the metallic taste in your mouth, there is the discomfort you
would put yourself through if you swallowed the swazzle. You’d have to make
or purchase another swazzle even if you eventually recovered it! And you
could be affected to the extent that you had to cancel some shows. If
someone books you to perform a show like one they’ve witnessed where you
used a swazzle, then you’re obliged to use a swazzle for their show too.
Judy
Judy

The long-suffering wife of the most famous puppet in the World is usually a
very plain woman who, with great fortitude, always bounces back after
whatever treatment life, and, especially, her selfish, violent partner puts her
through.

Judy is probably the real star of the show. She should be plain but happy in
appearance. My Judy has a cap but it is moulded from paper mache and is
actually part of the puppet’s head. If you make it from cloth, make sure that
you fix it firmly so that it won’t come off during the show but that you can
remove it easily for cleaning.

Judy’s costume should be colorful. Get someone to look at the material you
intend to use from a distance of several feet before you decide on it. It’s
surprising the way the details in small patterns dissolve together and the
effect changes when you do this test.

I had a kitchen apron made to go over Judy’s dress. There is a small pocket
with a handkerchief poking out of it but that is actually glued in place.

Baby

The third member of Punch’s family. This is often the ugliest of the Punch clan
as well as being even louder than Punch!

The Baby has a very important part to play in the show. Read the outline of
the script which I’ve included in ‘Profitable Puppetry’ to see how I downplay
the violent aspect of Punch’s treatment of the Baby.

I have had three different kinds of puppet as the Baby in my shows.

  • 1. The first Baby was a small stuffed doll with arms and legs. It looked
    okay but was more awkward to pass between the puppets, so I changed
    to version 2.

  • 2. This was a stuffed tube which tapered at each end. The outer
    covering was like the sort of blanket which you would wrap around a
    baby. The Face was large for the size of the Baby, with simple eye, nose
    and mouth shapes - and very, very ugly. I would always make the Baby
    have a slightly abstract, unpleasant appearance. This Baby cries and not
    much else.

  • 3. The third is a small baby doll which came wrapped in a doll-sized baby
    blanket. The head pokes out of one end of the blanket and is really large
    in proportion to the size of the rest of the doll. The moulded features
    are like a real baby but they are just a pink blur to my audiences
    because of the distance between them and the performing area. I will
    never paint features on its face – they’re unnecessary. This has worked
    really well for me, but, as far as I know, the doll is no longer being
    produced.

All types of Baby puppet were received well by the varied audiences which I
work for, but I suggest that you give most consideration to something like #2
or #3 as the protruding legs and arms of the other type are a real hassle for
the performer in a fastmoving show like this.

Toby the Dog

Originally, the Punch men used their own real dogs. Very few would do this
now because of risks to the dog. Also, a dog puppet is much easier to control.
My dog puppet is similar to the fur fabric animal puppets which you can get at
any toy store except that this one is a bit larger and, perhaps, better
constructed than most. It is the regular glove puppet design with no back legs
and mine does not have a mouth which opens.

I put a very small tab of hook-and-loop on the stitched mouth and a
corresponding very small piece of the hook fabric on the sausages. This
makes it easy for Punch to pull the sausages away from the dog during the
show.

I had the dog made from medium-quality fur fabric (there’s no reason to use
real fur).

The head was filled with foam to make the almost square shape of the dog’s
head (you could use small scraps of fabric) and animal eyes from the craft
shop were used rather than painting the eyes on.

At one point, I used Toby to start the show, telling the audience that, “If they
could see the Dog, then they would be able to see the show” in order to check
the lines of sight.

But, I changed after a while and started using the Clown during the set-up
because it’s a much more colorful character. Also, I can go straight into my
regular script from there.

Doctor

The Doctor is a pompous, greedy quack – sort of like Punch but less violent
and with a terrible wig and a black bag.

You don’t need to decorate this puppet very much. Put a black coat on him,
puffy red face – like a nasty Bank manager. You can have his hat loose and
glue a little crepe hair inside it, then paint the top of his head pink. Now you
can let Punch knock off the doctor’s hat and his wig goes too. Not real ‘nice’,
but children love it and most parents will love what gets their children laughing.

Policeman

Smiling, friendly – obviously no match for the devious Mr. Punch. My Policeman
is dressed in a simplified version of the traditional British police outfit with the
domed hat which they haven’t worn for years but children in this State,
thousands of miles from England, have always recognized the character
immediately. Maybe that’s because of British television shows.
Another simple puppet. Although the lady who made the costume for my
Policeman decorated it, the audience only see a blue blur of a costume. They
recognize the gold badge and the traditional London Bobby’s hat though we’
re thousands of miles from England.

The ‘badge’ is actually an oval piece of gold paper but that’s all that’s
necessary to give the right effect.

Scaramouche

Punch’s neighbor, who I’ve renamed Mr. Brown for my shows. He is another of
Punch’s victims.  This fellow is a nice, average man, so you can put him
through almost any sort of trouble at Punch’s hands. I had my puppet
dressed with a suit and bow tie. That’s so that it can also be used for a short
puppet sequence where he is a magician who is made to vanish by his rabbit!
(The rabbit is made in a similar way to Toby the Dog.)

Hangman

He’s a standard character in the traditional program that enjoys his work until
Mr. Punch tangles him up in it! I stopped using him very soon after I began
doing Punch and Judy. This meant that I could remove the wooden gibbet and
rope noose which were a bit awkward to use and were not familiar to my
audiences. I have thought of using him as a burglar character instead.

This is, after the Baby, the easiest puppet to prepare. His face is partly
covered by a black hood so you only have to paint a mean mouth with down-
turned ends and black pupils in round, white eyes – that’s all.

Ghost or Devil

The Devil was the only character mean enough to give Punch his well-deserved
comeuppance but I’ve always used a ghost instead and I let Judy save Punch
from his clutches. Both of those alterations are always well received but you
make up your own mind.

The Devil is usually clothed in red and black, with red skin and the facial
features and a beard almost entirely black (except for the whites of the eyes).
The Ghost is entirely dressed in a simple white shroud, black eyes, white teeth
outlined in black (put in one large gold tooth if you want to) and the mouth
area black. Hands can be a bit longer than normal but don’t separate the
fingers because they will inevitably catch in Punch’s costume or break off
during their fight.

I learned the value of simplicity from this puppet. My original Ghost was very
basic – white shroud, white face and black eyes with small white pupils. I
found a rubber skull of the right size in my magic props, so I painted it white,
added flashing red eyes (light emitting diodes and a battery!) The completed
puppet looked good but got nothing like the reaction which children gave to
the previous, much more basic model! That basic model got a new layer of
paint and has been getting a good reaction as a permanent fixture in my
Punch and Judy shows ever since.

Clown

I, for one, am very grateful to the early Punch man who first added a Clown
character, based on the great clown, Joseph Grimaldi, to his Punch and Judy
show. I always start my show with the clown because he’s instantly
recognizable as a fun character by everyone.

This is a good choice for the first puppet you make because any imperfections
in the form can be decorated and will not look out of place.

The clown is usually an auguste type with the tall cone-shaped hat and simple
baggy costume. I always start my show with him. He gets the audience to
help him call a very grumpy Mr. Punch into view.

Mr. Punch’s Horse

Yes, many operators used a horse puppet and Mr. Punch actually rode it! Of
course, he fell off too.

Make the body of the horse from hard foam. Cut a hole half-way along the
back and leave it open at the rear of the puppet. This is where you put Mr.
Punch to ride the horse.

You can put a Velcro™ tab inside the horse which will connect with a similar
tab on Punch’s costume so that they can both be operated together by the
same hand.
Crocodile
Crocodile

Even though crocodiles are not native to Britain, leaving the crocodile out of
your show will disappoint your audience and rob you of a lot of potential
(funny) mayhem.

You can make your crocodile by putting a hinge at one end of two light
wooden boards and then building up the shape of the crocodile with papier-
mâché. Add a tube of green fabric to the hinged end, then slide your hand
inside the tube to operate the hinged jaws.

Put big eyes made from extra papier-mâché on the top of the crocodile and
paint the inside of the hinged jaws pink. You can either paint the crocodile’s
teeth on the inside of the jaws or add big white teeth, made from thin wood
or plastic along the edges of the jaws.

My crocodile was made by sculpting the basic shape in modeling clay, then
coating it with several layers of liquid latex. Then, after the latex was
thoroughly dry, the clay was removed and more latex applied to join the inner
end of the two jaws together.

When that had dried, more latex was added to make the neck and the artist
painted the whole creature with the correct paint. This was not a quick job but
the effort and expense was well worth it.

When I received it, I added a tube of green material to extend the neck and
painted white teeth inside the jaws. This is a ferocious looking creature that is
an instant success with everyone except an occasional small child but, when I
take the crocodile out to show the audience and they see a few bigger children
put their hands inside its jaws, they also become fans!

I would not let any child put their hand inside the jaws if the puppet was not
made of this strong, but very flexible, material. The inside of the mouth is
coated with a strong water and paint-proof glaze and the paint used on the
crocodile is safe around children.

Blind Man

In the traditional program, Mr. Punch would whack him to add to the general
merriment. I don’t use the character even when I do a traditional program.
Made in a similar way to the Hangman, without the hood. Usually a grim
character.

Black Man

Another of Mr. Punch’s victims who is seldom seen these days.

This character does not have anything special or important to do in the play. I
had a slightly more elaborate costume made for him and he became Mr. Brown
(my version of Scaramouche), Mr. Punch’s neighbor.

Whale

This easy-to-make character never was part of the Punch and Judy show until
a British Punchman thought him up. He appeals to very young children
especially and also those few very sensitive parents that think their child
(usually an only, very young child) might be frightened by the crocodile.

I occasionally use this creature as an alternative to the crocodile where the
parents who book me believe that their child might not like the crocodile. He’s
a gentle, grey giant with large red lips and large rolling eyes (get the eyes
from the local craft shop.) I’ve never bothered to put in a blow-hole so that it
can squirt Mr. Punch (the less gadgets – the less problems) but just letting
Mr. Punch get his hand caught in the whale’s mouth gets a few laughs.

Just cut two large, flat pieces of foam to be the body of the whale. Shape
them to be narrower at the tail end, then cover them with a single piece of
gray fabric. Slit the fabric at the front of the whale and sew the red lips in
place.

Use a thinner piece of foam, at right angles to the narrow end of the body to
be the whale’s tail and cover it with more of the same grey fabric.

Add large, rolling plastic eyes from your local doll or craft shop and, maybe, a
couple of pieces of loose grey fabric as side fins. We don’t have to be
anatomically accurate here – if it’s large and grey it’s either a whale or a
politician and we never have anything political in a puppet show.
 
The above is taken from the ebook "Profitable Puppets".
 
    The Table Of Contents

    Prologue
    Safety First
    Puppet Shows In The 21st Century
    Glove Puppets
    Making The Puppets
    Heads
    Decorating The Heads
    Hands
    Costumes
    Holding The Puppet
    Your Punch And Judy Characters
    Mr.Punch
    Judy
    Baby
    Toby The Dog
    Doctor
    Policeman
    Scaramouche
    Hangman
    Ghost or Devil
    Clown
    Mr.Punch's Horse
    Crocodile
    Blind Man
    Black Man
    Whale
    Puppet Stages and Theaters
    Construction
    My Puppet Booth
    Pictures
    My Frame
    Proscenium
    Playboard
    My Cover
    Set-up and Performance
    Promoting Your Shows
    Sponsored Programs
    Your Public Address System
    Scripts And Scriptwriting
    Punch and Judy Script
    Jack and the Beanstalk
    Dealing With Real People
    Your Audiences
    Interaction
    Clients
    Other People Working At The Event
    Business Matters
    Insurance
    First Aid Kit
    Pictures
 
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