From: malgosia askanas <ma-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: Shadow Puppets
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 07:50:06 -0500 (EST)


> I'm not sure that an overhead projector is the best way to do a shadow 
> puppet play - very small for one thing and I think it might be difficult 
> to place yourself in a position that doesn't get in the way of the 
> audience 

I've been doing shadow puppetry with an OHP and am a very great fan of it.
I don't think the placement is such a problem.  First of all, one can do
back-projection (if there is room behind the screen).  Secondly, one can 
place the screen high enough up so the puppeteer's head is not in the
way.  Thirdly, the puppeteer can sit.

OHP puppetry is simply different from traditional shadow puppetry.  It is,
as I put it in absence of a better term, more "diagrammatic": the playing
field is more undifferenciated, there is no "up" or "down"; the pieces can
be placed anywhere and just stay there.  One can do cool layerings of
backgrounds, foregrounds, middlegrounds.  One can wallow in the use of found 
images, since all one has to do is go to a xerox shop and have them xeroxed.  
One's show is portable to the max.  One looks like one is doing flee circus.


-malgosia 


  --- Personal replies to: malgosia askanas <ma-AT-panix.com>
  --- List replies to:     puptcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
  --- Admin commands to:   majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu