Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 07:19:25 +0100
Subject: AW: PUPT: finger holes on papier mache heads



An alternative, of course, is simply to assume that the heads won't always
stick on. Edward Gorey's Le Threatricule Stoique puppets were like this, and
the puppeteers developed a large variety of techniques for dealing with
falling heads.  One of his entertainments was even titled  "Heads Will
Roll". In the puppet opera I composed for Mr. Gorey, there is a chorus of
tourists. When, in performance, one of the tourists lost her head, the
remaining tourists comforted the stump while one of the singers carefully
picked up the missed head from the floor and replaced it.

Daniel Wolf
Budapest


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