Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:41:10 -0800
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: [Puptcrit] Tempest Blog Update


Friends-

	In the flurry of preparations to open our latest show, RASH 
ACTS, I didn't send my monthly update on our TEMPEST blog for the 
evolution of our puppet/mask staging scheduled for Sept. 2009.

	So here it is for December & January.  And our first videos, 
not of the production, just some simple character explorations. 
We're at <http://www.independenteye.org/news/index.html>.

	Strange to post this in light of the discussion on scripts. 
A full-blown Shakespeare text doesn't really seem to meet the 
criterion of the-fewer-words-the-better.  But that's what we'll be 
doing, and with MACBETH we got away with it.  Though I should say 
that in our workshop experiment, we reduce each scene to about ten 
lines max, and interesting things happen.

	I welcome comments & questions & wild ideas - there's a place 
for comments on the blog.  And please pass the link along to friends, 
students, or colleagues who may be interested in puppetry, 
Shakespeare or creative process.  Next week I hope to post another 
storyboard, if my opening-night post-partum bronchitis clears up. 
Sculpting starts tomorrow.

Peace & joy-
Conrad Bishop

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Tempest #19 -- Three Calibans
	Video & more thoughts about Caliban stemming from our last 
workshop.  And wrestling with the play's gnarly ending.

Tempest #18 -- Three Mirandas
	Video exploring multiple conceptions of the character, 
focused on first Miranda/Caliban scene. Why does Prospero force this 
scene to happen? 

Tempest #17 - Magicians
	Renaissance magic and modern-day Thelema:  how do they relate 
to Prospero's immersion in accessing his power?  And a plausible 
back-story for his entering this world.

Tempest #16 -- Sunday's Workshop
	First January workshop:  sound-movement explorations, vocal 
analysis, and staging the first Prospero/Miranda scene cut to ten 
lines (for the workshop, not for the show!).

Tempest #15 -- Caliban & Prospero - Storyboard 1:2C
	Storyboard of the first Caliban scene; key moment his sole 
direct exchange with Miranda.

Tempest #14 -- Spirits and Congruences
	First draft design for the puppeteers' masks as the island's 
spirits.  And a real-life model for the magical Prospero: a friend 
who missed the zenith of his auspicious star.

Tempest #13 - Prospero Summons Ariel - 1:2 Storyboard
	Storyboard of his struggle with the demon he's enchained. 
And a variety of responses.

-And of course the many pages going back to September are still open 
to the world.
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