Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 21:17:03 -0500
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Fire


Not to mention having to use the mop and sponge from the other show to
clean it up.

On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Preston Foerder <preston-AT-pfpuppetry.com> wrote:
> That would mean transferring a character from one story into another story
> for the sake of fire safety. Dramaturgically unsound.
>
> Preston
>
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> On Behalf Of Hobey Ford
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>
> Your show was the first I have seen or heard of the use of an
> aquarium.  I mean you could have put the fire out with ease.
>
> On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Preston Foerder <preston-AT-pfpuppetry.com>
> wrote:
>> Yes, there was a Belgian company that had a puppet that sang an aria from
>> Madama Butterfly while lit by candles.  They were so annoyed by not being
>> able to use the fire that they played the soundtrack to a blank stage and
>> shined bright lights in the audience's eyes.  There was a Russian company
>> who used actual burning candles (they hadn't told anyone nor asked
>> permission) in the middle of a stage strewn with crumpled newspaper. That
>> made me nervous.
>>
>> Preston Foerder
>>
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>> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
>> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Fire
>>
>> Preston,
>>     I remember the San Francisco festival very well.   There were fire
>> issues in several shows, as I remember.   Your use of the TV was, by far,
>> the
>> cleverest and quickest thinking I have seen before or since, for that
>> matter.
>>     Bob N.
>>
>>
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