To: "Puptcrit" <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:48:59 +0000
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Adapting Grimm's Fairy Tales...


Here's my take: Be sure you know who your audience is.  I would love to play to kids from seven to twelve, but I also love money. My show is advertised as "a puppet show for the whole family" (no matter what I say) and they come in strollers. And even if you advertise for the older child, you will always get little'uns. Keep out all the "scary" stuff. I once did "The Goblin Child," a story where the baby is switched with a goblin. Everyone (including the audience by having a wonderful double faced puppet) saw the goblin but the mother. The problem came when the little monster stole his sister's doll and put it into the sausage machine (a hilarious Punch routine that the older kids LOVED). This routine costs me ten years of being "boycotted" from an entire library system because the one very influential librarian just happened to be my first show in that district and her audience was made up of three year olds (summer reading club, my foot!). 
    In this day and age I would hesitate...no, I  never would kill the wolf in "Little Red Ridinghood" My wolf gets sent to the zoo...and I'm sure I could get flack on that too.
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From: Pixie Moss
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Sent: Jan 25, 2009 11:57 PM
Subject: [Puptcrit] Adapting Grimm's Fairy Tales...

Hello,
               I am a felt doll maker and have been working the last
few years on turning my creations into puppets. I have almost finished
the design and now will be turning my attention to puppet theatre and
script writing. I have no experience writing any kind of script at
all, though I do have a knack for writing stories.

I would like to start out using an old Grimm's or other fairy tale and
was hoping to get some advice on adapting fairy tales to puppet plays.
How do I begin ?  What is the first step ? Is there an easy formula
for writing out a script and adapting a fairy tale ? Should I make the
puppets first, or script ?

Any advice on this topic or script writing in general would be appreciated.....



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