Matt
Funny how on my way to rehearsal today I see the word “Puppets” mentioned in the newspaper 3 or 4 times. We find ourselves rehearsing in the airy Gallery space of The Rose Theatre, Kingston. The rehearsal starts with the sharing of scientific, factual and realities of information researched so far for Motor Neurone Disease (MND).
After a short discussion involving exciting ideas, impossible set ideas but the creative imaginations are flowing, we are up on our feet, playing with an interesting fact that some cases of MND start with people yawning, dropping things, tripping and struggling to pronounce some words. This was built into a physical score of us taking the sound and movement, quickly this evolved into an ensemble score which we all individually contributed. From dropping a pencil case right through to the person who dropped it receiving it back again, as if they had never dropped it.
Our central character, who currently stands as a puppet, sparked conversation into how we he would move, his characteristics and mannerisms. Carly was sat in a chair, and a series of strings were attached to her (almost) every limb. We then proceeded to experiment with the movement of dead weight human limbs, although our puppet probably won’t be a marionette, it gave us the sense of man power that is needed to move the limbs, and for Carly to experience the feeling of having her limbs moved by other people...
This experiment threw into the pot of ideas many pondering questions...
As the MND starts to take over our puppet, does this require more puppeteers to support him, or does it take in the first place 2 or 3 puppeteers to manipulate him, and during the process puppeteers drop out, until he only needs 1 to manipulate him?
Funny how on my way to rehearsal today I see the word “Puppets” mentioned in the newspaper 3 or 4 times. We find ourselves rehearsing in the airy Gallery space of The Rose Theatre, Kingston. The rehearsal starts with the sharing of scientific, factual and realities of information researched so far for Motor Neurone Disease (MND).
After a short discussion involving exciting ideas, impossible set ideas but the creative imaginations are flowing, we are up on our feet, playing with an interesting fact that some cases of MND start with people yawning, dropping things, tripping and struggling to pronounce some words. This was built into a physical score of us taking the sound and movement, quickly this evolved into an ensemble score which we all individually contributed. From dropping a pencil case right through to the person who dropped it receiving it back again, as if they had never dropped it.
Our central character, who currently stands as a puppet, sparked conversation into how we he would move, his characteristics and mannerisms. Carly was sat in a chair, and a series of strings were attached to her (almost) every limb. We then proceeded to experiment with the movement of dead weight human limbs, although our puppet probably won’t be a marionette, it gave us the sense of man power that is needed to move the limbs, and for Carly to experience the feeling of having her limbs moved by other people...
This experiment threw into the pot of ideas many pondering questions...
As the MND starts to take over our puppet, does this require more puppeteers to support him, or does it take in the first place 2 or 3 puppeteers to manipulate him, and during the process puppeteers drop out, until he only needs 1 to manipulate him?
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