From the Page to the Stage: Making 150 Puppets
Curt Bright
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02/24/2022
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A master puppet designer tackles several challenges to populate "The Way to the Way" with fantastic creatures.
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- [00:00:00.208](jolly music)
- [00:00:08.360]I am the puppet designer and fabricator.
- [00:00:11.350]There are about 150 puppets.
- [00:00:13.560]Some of them can be as simple as a skeleton arm.
- [00:00:17.670]And then some of them are a full blown horse,
- [00:00:19.480]like a full-scale horse.
- [00:00:21.050]And including character heads and butterflies.
- [00:00:26.310]The biggest challenge
- [00:00:27.550]is that none of the puppets operate the same way.
- [00:00:29.950]And the learning curve on this one has been elevated.
- [00:00:33.710]The planets are paper lanterns.
- [00:00:35.870]They'll be illuminated from the inside by the performers.
- [00:00:38.260]The horse and the ox are
- [00:00:39.770]a new type of puppet that I haven't done yet.
- [00:00:41.900]The heads, they'll all blink.
- [00:00:43.240]And their ears will move and their mouths will open.
- [00:00:45.170]But with these ones,
- [00:00:46.003]their legs are attached to a wheel.
- [00:00:47.910]All the mechanisms will be blacked out,
- [00:00:49.360]but their legs will actually move
- [00:00:51.610]as they are wheeled out.
- [00:00:53.090]And then we have shadow puppets.
- [00:00:57.980]This production is.
- [00:00:59.840]I call it a fever dream.
- [00:01:01.240]'Cuz puppet do nothing but make you believe everything.
- [00:01:04.210]So I have a puppet for every mood.
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