File puptcrit/puptcrit.0804, message 368


From: Michael Moynihan <mmoynihan-AT-wi.rr.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:38:17 -0500
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Pierre et le loup


A chess game is theatre if there is an audience.
Puppetry is a subset of theatre.
As Peter Brook so brilliantly wrote long ago theatre requires a space,  
an actor and an audience.
Two chess players are the actors, wherever they are playing (park,  
auditorium, space station) is the space. Whoever is watching is the  
audience.
But if the focus is on the chess pieces (of any design) as the actors,  
the chess board as the space, and there are people watching, seems  
like a puppet show. Also a GREAT idea for a table top puppet show.

- moynihan
(does not play chess - loves checkers)

On Apr 21, 2008, at 7:04 PM, robertrogers-AT-robertrogerspuppets.com wrote:

> Dear Caro,
>
> I appreciate your point of view, but if periodically moving a statue  
> from
> one place to another makes it a puppet, then according to your  
> definition,
> moving chess pieces around a chess board makes them puppets, too.
>
> Robert

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