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By Richard Lykes
Special to the Rappahannock News
Rousing applause from an appreciative audience of some 140 people rang out in the concert hall of the Castleton Theatre Sunday afternoon for a virtuoso performance of the award-winning “Cashore Marionettes.”
Reacting with awe _ and amazement, everyone litit wondered how one person could create such a range of sophisticated and realistic illusions with marionettes? The answer is talent and h$rd work.
Joseph Cashore, a master artisan and internationally acclaimed performer, has received numerous awards and fellowships for his artistry and presentations around the world.
He came to the Castleton Theatre for a private benefit to advance the educational work of Lorin and Dietlinde Maazel’s Chateauville Foundation in bringing world-class theatrical artists and music to the unique setting of Rappahannock County.
Hand-crafting his own marionettes, Cashore has designed his own systems that use many complex strings to gain an extraordinary depth of expression with his puppets-including both people and animals.
An outstanding example of this technique was the elephant he created in “African Morning” where Cashore used 42 strings that allowed this gentle animal to sniff food, move hay, and weep silently on his knees as he uncovers the bones of a relative in the jungle. Sounds of a hunting party approaching breaks the solemnity of the moment and the elephant hurriedly moves on.
In his signature vignette-Maestro Janos ZelinkaCashore has his puppet convincingly “play” the violin to the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending. When the little concerto is finished, people are applauding the realism of the scene Cashore has created but also his skilled technique and subtle control over the marionette’s every movement and expression.
The vignettes, presented only with recorded music and no words, covered a series of poignant as well as humorous and even whimsical scenes from everyday life. Some of the titles suggest the subject matter: For example, “A Lullaby,” shows a mother holding and lovingly playing
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