Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 23:00:15 -0800
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: [Puptcrit] Tempest Weblog - November


Friends-

Here's my monthly summary of posts on our weekly weblog on the 
evolution of our puppet staging of THE TEMPEST, opening Sept. '09. 
Hope you'll visit; comments & questions welcome. 

             http://www.independenteye.org/news/index.html

(No posting the first week of this past month, having been obsessed 
with the election.)

#8 - Storyboard for Act 1 Sc. 1, the storm.

#9 - Our first workshop with actors.  Work on voice & its linkage 
with physical action.  Shakespeare's realism with an expanded 
stylistic expression.  Iambic pentameter's unkillable assertiveness. 
Making puppets breathe.

#10 - Storyboard continues:  Act 1 Sc. 2, Prospero & Miranda.

#11 - The recurrences of the storm.  A new puppet technique (if my 
lame wrist heals).  And thoughts about the singular notion of casting 
Prospero as a male.

Peace & joy-

Conrad Bishop
The Independent Eye, Ltd.

ps - I'd especially appreciate any comments or wild ideas for 
improvements on the technique briefly illustrated in #11.  Using it 
for just one puppet in our production of RASH ACTS in January, but I 
think it may have a lot of potential.for our larger-scale (about 3/4 
lifesize) puppets.

Also wondering how many of y'all do storyboards for new pieces.  I've 
only just begun this, find it very useful, at least in getting the 
skeleton of the concept clear.
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