To: <puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:59:31 -0500
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppet Peers



> I would agree that there are some specific things that we might want a
> reviewer to observe in a good or bad puppet theatre production, but
> Good theatre is good theatre.  If they don't enjoy the show, then
> chances are that it isn't good theatre and thus not good Puppetry.


Well Liz, I'm just remembering (for example) a performance of The Lion King 
on Broadway, in which the "puppeteers" didn't even know how to lip sync 
their puppets' mouths with the dialogue.  Boy was I steamed.  Did a critic 
even know or care to catch it?  No.

Robert Rogers 

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