File puptcrit/puptcrit.0902, message 711


From: HobgoblinH-AT-aol.com
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:51:38 EST
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] A Puppeteer's  Dream


Our troupe has had the reality of the nightmare so many times--  arriving for 
a performance without a main character, or without a scrim-- that  was the 
worst. But as to the missing character, we just re-write the show with a  
different character, or substitute another character in that place. Most of our  
shows are improv anyway. Once our jester played the doctor. Possibly the  
weirdest event was where we left the dragon at home. This was "St. George and  the 
Dragon." We just had a bare hand come out forming a dragon head. Its lines  all 
came out flat because it couldn't act. It was very, very funny. 
As to the nightmare, I've had it, too. But then there's the teacher's  
nightmare, which I have every year before school opens. I'm teaching a large  class 
the names of whom I do not know in an unfamiliar school. If I had not done  
that in reality dozens of times...
My father had the student's nightmare long after we had grown up-- he would  
have a test for which he had not studied, and he had missed the class a lot. 
One recurrent nightmare (caused by past experiences of 6-7 years ago) which  
is not unlike Bob's-- I am lost in the bad part of a strange city, and my  
partner is not helpful about it, or he's somewhere else, and no one I speak to  
can help me. At least that sort of thing does not happen to me in real life any 
 more.   
Cheers,
Alice
 
 
In a message dated 2/24/2009 9:04:56 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
anne-AT-tanglewoodmarionettes.com writes:

P.S. The  road crew went off without the lead character yesterday.    
Fortunately, they were within 40 minutes of home base, so I was able   
to drop everything and give the malingering puppet a personal escort   
to the show.  It was a close call, and we've had a string of  those  
lately (mistaken double-bookings, but luckily close  enough  
geographically to manage to meet both obligations; vehicle  break-down,  
but again at an opportune place and time so that all  obligations were  
met, etc.) The Puppet Gods have been smiling, but I  think we've used  
up all our  chits...


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