Wednesday, October 17, 2007
For Old Trout troupe puppets, death is a way of life
The Boston Globe: "When the Old Trout Puppet Workshop performs its 'Famous Puppet Death Scenes' this week at the Institute of Contemporary Art, audience members will be forgiven if they can't recall any actual puppet death scenes - besides, say, those in 'Punch and Judy.'"
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I enjoy the fact that three outcasts met at camp and started their own idea of what theatre is. The idea of puppets reinacting famous death scenes sounds hilarious and is unique.
In connecting this to the earlier article about remixing rent, the concepts apply here as well, of reinventing the same stories in different art forms.
this sounds like such fun. when i went to see Avenue Q i remembered thinking, wow, puppets on stage for adults, doing crazy things. it just seems to add something. or maybe it takes away something, some sort of issue, like if a person were doing it it wouldn't be okay, but with a puppet you remove that hesitancy and give in to it as comedy.
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