From: slovpete-AT-telesouth1.com
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 18:23:44 -0400
Subject: Re: PUPT: Save the Cornstarch!


Don't be so quick to come out from behind your scrim either.  Think awhile
about what you want to present with your piece.  The presentation is an
important part of the message you are trying to get across.  I've seen many
pieces where the puppeteers are visible just because it seemed easier to do it
that way.  I've seen other pieces where the puppeteers were hidden just because
"that's the way it's done".  Little thought was given to either presentation.
Neither way is preferable.   If you want to be seen, great.  If you want to be
hidden, that's fine, too.  Your presence or lack of it, is part and parcel of
what the audience sees.  In neither case are you invisible.  (If you're wearing
a hood, you're not invisible, either.  The audience sees a puppeteer standing
there, wearing a hood.)  Think carefully about what stage picture you want to
present, it is as important as anything else to the audience's understanding of
your story.

Preston
(Yes, I'm still here.)

Stephen Kaplin wrote:

> Dear Ellissa,
>         So don't be so quick to mask yourself behind the scrim or the
> organdy. Even if you don't want to play with  the effect, the human being
> standing beside or behind the box doesn't break the focus of the audience
> watching the toy theater stage, provided the actors maintain focus
> themselves.
>



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