Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 00:20:44 -0700
Subject: PUPT: monologues


So here's my newest challenge.  

Portland, OR has a pretty strong puppetry scene, and the local theaters
are becoming increasingly comfortable with incorporating puppets into
conventional theater.  We also have a theater arts group that sponsors
Fall and Spring auditions that all the directors come to.  

I'm thinking that I want to go to this but- I need to come up with an
intelligent way to present the notion of puppeteer as actor, to those
directors that insist on using puppets with no notion of the need for
skill.  I have yet to come up with a way to audition as a puppeteer that
avoids appearing to be a gimmick.  

I would like to do a monologue from a "known" work in order to try to
drive home the point that puppets can work in mainstage, adult work. 
Any thoughts-  even random ones?

Oh by-the-bye... although the meeting with the critics hasn't happened
yet, we posted a notice offering a puppetry workshop to local actors and
have had a good response from non-puppeteers.  And as a side benefit- a
director called me to be a manipulation coach for some puppets he
incorporated into "The Birds" by Aristophane.  Paid me too.

Mary

-- 
Mary Robinette Kowal
Other Hand Productions
http://www.otherhandproductions.com


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