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The Myths of Puppet Theater by HowlRound

By Eric Bass. There are two myths about puppet theater that need to be exploded. The first of them is the more obvious. It is the myth that the puppeteer controls the puppet. As puppeteers, it is, surprisingly, not our job to impose our intent on the puppet. It is our job to discover what the puppet can do and what it seems to want to do. It has propensities. We want to find out what they are, and support them. We ar…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM on May 14, 2014

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