Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:40:18 -0800
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: [Puptcrit] RASH ACTS opening


Friends-

	If you're within leaping distance of the Bay Area, come see 
RASH ACTS, playing the next three weekends (Jan. 23-Feb. 7).  Info at 
http://www.independenteye.org/stage.html, and you can see a few more 
photos at http://www.independenteye.org/press.html.  There's ticket 
info on the Stage page, but if you'd like comps we could probably 
manage that in exchange for warm hugs.  In a couple of months we'll 
have a DVD of the show.

	Last May's DESCENT OF INANNA was a big leap for us, and this 
is bigger, with a wider range of styles.  It's five plays, 12 to 18 
minutes each, and I'm damn near wrung dry with having built 32 
puppets (42 if you count 10 little finger creatures) while also 
developing THE TEMPEST for mounting next September.  But it's my own 
fault for thinking we'd slide this simple little show into the 
schedule.

	I wouldn't call us world-class yet - a long way to go on 
technique - but I'm steadily seeing one creature, then another, 
suddenly take on real life and start to react spontaneously without 
being strangled into submission by its puppeteer.  Most manipulation 
problems are really basic acting problems: finding a physical 
vocabulary of reaction and then, dammit, just reacting.

	And this is my very first show involving hand puppets (in two 
of the stories), and I'm finding I really love the dorky little 
things. 

Peace & joy-
Conrad B.
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