From: patriot-AT-mip.net
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 11:45:32 -0200
Subject: Re: scripts


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>>Jim Henson was said to be big on patterns- look at things and break them
>down into basic patterns. BA in Art I have makes me sympathetic to the
>visual. And you are right. Most scripts I've seen are words.
>Remember that Timepiece short film Henson did years ago? How one image was
>geared to promote an emotional response, and then another unconnected image
>was supposed to engender yet another feeling/ideaa? Great if puppet theater
>could recover some of its visual aspects. Mimes would agree with me. 

I can't remember which Festival, I think the one at Kent in Ohio, but a
Canadian group (who's name I don't remember but wish I did !) did a
WONDERFUL piece completely in mime and it was really great !  I don't
remember a single word.  There were some "grunts, whistles and noises" but
no speech.  The puppets were completely "abstract" hand puppets, as I
recall VERY simple glove puppets, and I remember them being green, at least
the character that was the most delightful, but others could have been
other colors and when I say green, I mean completely green, just a simple
front and back the same with a round head.  Only the nose and eyes (and in
the case of the green guy, a pair of tiny tennis shoes !) broke the
monochrome ! <g>  You didn NEED words, and it was a real delight.
Another Festival, in San Luis Obispo, had one of Jim Gamble's "boys" (I
think he worked for Jim at the time), did a piece with a suitcase stage and
a completely abstract "critter" which could have been from Outer Space,
again no words, none needed and it, to was completely entertaining and
understandable with no words, just squeeks and whistles.  Again, I don't
remember the name of the puppeteer.  Point is, it CAN be done and very
effectively.  I just wish I were clever enough to DO it ! <g>
David M. Adams
Frederick, Maryland



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