File spoon-archives/puptcrit.archive/puptcrit_2003/puptcrit.0310, message 59


Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 23:36:06 -0500
From: Mathieu <uubald-AT-magma.ca>
Subject: Re: PUPT: Puppets influence on the young



>
>Thanks for sharing the story.  One experience that drove home for me the
>power of a puppet to communicate with kids happened in a department
>store.  We were putting together material for an upcoming corporate show,
>and we decided one of our hand puppets (almost life sized, from the waist
>up, with one real arm) needed a blue blazer as a costume for one of the
>bits.  We figured the fastest way to get one was to hit the children's
>department of a store.  So, with this puppet on my arm, Dave, the producer,
>starts trying on different jackets on the puppet.  I, of course, start
>commenting on each one, as the puppet.  I mean, my arm was in his head, so
>as far as I was concerned, he was alive and had a right to express his
>opinion of the clothes.  "Does this one make my ass look fat?  Does it make
>me look like I HAVE an ass?"  In seconds, we were surrounded by kids, all
>wanting to talk to the puppet.  They totally ignored me, the hairy guy
>standing there with all this rubber on his hand.  They only saw the puppet,
>only related to the puppet, and barraged him with questions. It was a
>wonderful experience.
>-Bob Stone
>www.serious-comedy.com

Wow Bob! I love the story.Tell us more! What were they asking the puppet?

 I get some reactions from kids (although less direct and less crowd) ,
when I carry my puppets around. (I leave them unwrapped on puprose, I gotta
practice manipulation sometime, right?) I have no great puppetry skill yet,
still practicing, so I attribute the reaction to the AUPP. (Animating
Universal Puppet Power.) There's something greater than the puppeteer...
No, I'm not talking about my hands.

;)



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Puppets, Masks, etc.

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