File puptcrit/puptcrit.0804, message 134


From: Ed Atkeson <edatkeson-AT-earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 12:16:47 -0400
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] dreams


 >>> That idea of motion is really wonderful -- what a way to get an  
idea
for a piece! Of course your memory of that is strong enough to dictate
your choices -- as any actor would. Cool.
Is the show videotaped?
-------------------------------
Rolande,
Usually I enjoy my dreams, they're good for a laugh but can't really  
translate them into anything. In this case though...

There is a tape of an early work-in-progress version, but a small  
film company wants to make a DVD of the piece so by midsummer there  
will be a good video.

thanks,
Ed

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On Apr 8, 2008, at 1:31 PM, Ed Atkeson wrote:


>>>> Question for a new topic:
>>>>
>
> How have your dreams affected your work in puppetry?
>
> (Those dreams which happen during sleep, that is)
>
> Rolande
> ------------------------
> Nice question.
>
> One of the shows I made recently is largely taken from a recurring
> dream, or terrifying nightmare, that I remember from my childhood.
>
> In the dream I am in a whirling cylinder that is rotating at a
> zillion miles an hour and sometimes seems like it's about to get off
> balance and wreck somehow, killing me. My job is to keep the motion
> smoothed out and I don't know how. I try to make it happen ...
> somehow... by thinking or not thinking, a certain position, there is
> something that I can do without knowing quite what, that will keep it
> steady and I try to do that.
>
> In "The Man at the Controls" the puppet has the lever of a machine
> that is roaring and wobbling (it has a washing machine motor inside
> with an eccentric weight) and he tries to keep it quieted down. It's
> rigged so that I can make the machine thing make different noises and
> seem like it's going to wreck or explode or whatever, and the puppets
> job is to hold the lever just right.
>
> It's coming from a strongly remembered dream feeling.
> best,
> Ed A
>
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