Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 22:16:16 -0800
From: "Andrew Young" <omlemedia-AT-omlemedia.com>
Subject: Re: PUPT: Sudden topicality


I can't say 9/11 has had much of an impact on our work artistically. We do comedy work that is not squarely at children or families, making our experience probably different than most we are continuing our bomb-blasting-cartoony-violence ways here relatively unfettered (though Jacques and LeRoch our "Furry French Canadian Terrorists" have been given a bit of rest out of respect for the events of 9/11).

We're going in to production with some new episodes of our online series "The Marshall & Buck Show" later this year hopefully. One of the scripts we have has our characters as Canadian Customs Officials oblivious to the fact that Bin Laden is trying to sneak in to the country. It is really more of a satire of the Canadian immigration system than a commentary on recent world events but there has been a bit of a debate as to whether or not we should shoot the script.

Despite some reservations we will probably go ahead unless Bin Laden turns up dead. We have a rule not to parody recently deceased people (even heinously evil ones).

Food for thought,

Andrew Young
Omle Media
Omle Media's Character Shop


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Mary Robinette Kowal <maryrk-AT-earthlink.net>
Reply-To: puptcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 16:46:41 -0800

>I had the strangest thing happen today.  I was teaching a workshop on
>glove puppetry.  This is a workshop I've taught for years (incidentally
>using those toilet paper tubes we were discussing earlier).  Part of the
>class involves putting the students into groups and having them adapt
>"the 3 little pigs."  
>
>We talk about how adaptation work, and that if you change something in
>the story you have to look at how it changes everything.  For instance a
>"Big Bad Bunny" might choose to "Hop" the house down, rather than
>huffing and puffing.
>
>One group wanted to know what would happen if no one in their group
>wanted to be a wolf?  I've had this happen before, so I gave them my
>standard answer that building the houses could be the end of the story
>(Dull, but okay) or they could come up with something else to make the
>houses come down.  You see where this is headed don't you.  In the
>flurry of usual suggestion "Hurricane, tornado, bad construction..."
>came "A Bomb."  I waved that away easily enough.  They didn't want a bad
>guy and someone would have had to put a bomb there.  No bad guy, no
>bomb.
>
>However, suddenly I was face to face with the uncomfortable notion that
>The Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Pigs is a story about a terrorist
>trying to knock peoples' houses down.  It's not like I'm going to stop
>doing this workshop, but geez- is there any aspect of our lives that
>9-11 didn't touch?  
>
>How about you- do you have shows that you've suddenly found topicality
>in?
>
>Mary
>
>-- 
>Mary Robinette Kowal
>Other Hand Productions
>http://www.otherhandproductions.com
>
>
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