File puptcrit/puptcrit.0910, message 193


From: LKJeffries-AT-aol.com
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:44:00 EDT
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: [Puptcrit] puppeteers and actors


I think I missed a chunk of this thread, but it strikes me that most 
puppeteers are what we at Cornerstone Theater call "slashers"; we are 
writer/performer/director/designers, and sometimes also quite fine musicians or dancers. 
  So there's no reason for us to assume that our actor and dancer 
colleagues can't likewise have or develop multiple skills.     

Sure, not every great actor is a great puppeteer.   I work with a lot of 
actors, as well as first-time performers in community-based work.   Some are 
natural puppeteers - they'll pick up a puppet and immediately start playing 
inventively with it.   Some will have to work hard at it, but will eventually 
give a beautiful performance.   And some just have no feel for it at all, 
and it will always be a kind of paint-by-numbers exercise for them.   But 
those are the rarest, in my experience.

--Lynn
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