Subject: Re: PUPT: PUPT: Re:  Writing for puppets
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 14:41:03 -0400


Alice

What you say in your post backs up something that I believe is true, but 
have no scientific evidence to prove it.
My thought is this - reading and writing make it more difficult to memorize.

I don't want to go into personal history here.  I'll just say that I have a 
child who, for a variety of reasons, learned to read later in life than do 
most children.  She still struggles with it.  BUT she has the most amazing 
memory of where things (gifts) come from and 'who said what when'.  She is 
also able to learn & retain the words to songs very well.

And my little one (age 5.5) has helped me author and perform in 2 shows.  
I'm amazed at how fast she is able to pick up the full script and repeat it 
even a few weeks later, with no rehearsal in-between!  I hope she can keep 
it up as she learns to read.  (She can even correct my lines, but I've 
explained to her that Daddy is more of a commedia performer and she'll learn 
about doing that later.  I can't wait to see if she is still able to 
accomplish this feat in the next year or 2.  (I hope she can!)

Just 2 more cents

dave goboff


>From: HobgoblinH-AT-aol.com
>
    snip
>
>To memorize them, I tape them and play them in my car, because I do a lot 
>of driving. The distinctive voices are on the tape. Music cues are included 
>as well, for mnemonic purposes. Gradually, after playing them all the time, 
>I start trying to say the lines before they happen, and feel a thrill of 
>positive reenforcement  when I get it right.

***** This obviates reading and visual memorization completely. *****

Gradually I can say the whole play right in advance of cue. The rhymes, of 
course, also help with memorization. I might add that if the whole play were 
to be sung, that would make it even easier, because remembering a song is a 
piece of cake to a long poem. But that's for other puppeteers with better 
singing voices.
>
snip

>My ten cents,
>Alice (Awake now)
>


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