Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:18:20 -0700 To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org From: The Independent Eye <eye-AT-independenteye.org> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Talking Animals >That rock story had me on the edge of my seat. AND >You'd have to be pretty stoned to sit through that rock story. I'm >sure that some here thought it really rocked but on it's surface, it >was hard to take - geologically speaking. I think I'll go to my room >now. Do I sense a bit of irony here? I didn't know that was allowed on Puptcrit. Might actually be a way to get puppetry into the high schools, where from our experience a significant part of the audience (in the back third of the auditorium) would be right in the mood. I'm referring mainly to the suburban schools, where they can afford a better quality of drugs. Might also be appropriate to the post-Beckettian experimental theatre, if we could devise a way to have the actual rocks, the puppet rocks, actors body-painted as rocks, real-time projected video feeds of aboriginal Australian rocks, and the dialogue set to a beat-box rhythm. Seriously, though: I have a good friend who's a geologist, also a neo-pagan who's done many "groundings" as part of rituals, speaking a meditative visualization of a journey from our shoe soles down to the center of the Earth, according to the latest scientific concepts of the layering, not the sci-fi versions. It's enormously moving, in part because he's so deeply in love with his subject. I've sometimes thought of doing a puppet journey based on that idea. Have to think about it again. I wonder, by the way, if talking-animal stories tend to be less violent. It's hard to talk with your mouth full of your opponent. Cheers- Conrad B. _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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