From the Page to the Stage: Becoming a Puppet
Curt Bright
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02/24/2022
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Actors disappear within puppets during rehearsals for "The Way to the Way."
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- [00:00:00.021](gentle cheerful music)
- [00:00:07.659](smoke machine whooshing)
- [00:00:12.020]I'm really excited about the puppets
- [00:00:13.680]in "The Way to the Way."
- [00:00:14.640]We're doing a form that we call blackout puppetry.
- [00:00:17.710]So that's when the puppeteers
- [00:00:18.990]are dressed completely in black.
- [00:00:20.770]What happens over time
- [00:00:22.080]is your eye completely eliminates the puppeteer
- [00:00:24.300]and you just believe the puppet that's in front of you.
- [00:00:27.060]Now on top of that, we're dealing with very large puppets.
- [00:00:30.770]Like, you may have noticed the horse behind me,
- [00:00:33.450]or you may notice this turtle right here.
- [00:00:36.107](puppets clanking)
- [00:00:38.320]These puppets were made by our puppet maker
- [00:00:40.520]and designer Jill Hibbard; she's incredible.
- [00:00:43.190]And so she's created the rigging systems that are used.
- [00:00:45.800]And the puppets range from very, very small puppets
- [00:00:49.690]to shadow puppets to these very, very large puppets.
- [00:00:54.110](gentle cheerful music)
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