I just got an e-mail from an experimental theatre near me. Does anyone think Faulkner's As I Lay Dying performed by puppets is a good idea?
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Ginger - Aug 30, 2007 11:20:23 am PDT #3558 of 10001
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vw bug - Aug 30, 2007 11:20:57 am PDT #3559 of 10001
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Ginger, that has to be a joke. Right?
Ginger - Aug 30, 2007 11:23:27 am PDT #3560 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
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eta: I've been to quite a few shows at Push Push and most have been pretty good. I just can't quite fathom the brain that thought it would be a good idea to base a puppet show on a book told from multiple stream of consciousness points of view about people with the IQ of dirt.
JZ - Aug 30, 2007 11:24:22 am PDT #3561 of 10001
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Does anyone think Faulkner's As I Lay Dying performed by puppets is a good idea?
God help me, I think it's an awesome idea. The only way it could be better is doing it in 30 seconds performed by bunnies, or possibly Weebl and Bob; or maybe the entire Faulkner canon as done by the Reduced Shakespeare Co. But I'm one sick twist, so don't listen to me.
tommyrot - Aug 30, 2007 11:25:42 am PDT #3562 of 10001
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OMG. That sounds like it would at least be as good as Sock Puppet Showgirls. Which was really good.
Zenkitty - Aug 30, 2007 11:34:11 am PDT #3563 of 10001
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NoiseDesign - Aug 30, 2007 11:40:56 am PDT #3564 of 10001
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I just got an e-mail from an experimental theatre near me. Does anyone think Faulkner's As I Lay Dying performed by puppets is a good idea?
Could be interesting. That's a very difficult book to adapt, and a very difficult play to do well. I've designed a production of it and we had an amazing director who pulled it off, but it was a ton of work. I'm not sure about puppets. If done well I guess it could work. We had shadow puppets for certain sections of our production.
omnis_audis - Aug 30, 2007 11:45:15 am PDT #3565 of 10001
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Toddson - Aug 30, 2007 11:46:20 am PDT #3566 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Faulkner? puppets? (boggles)
Although I once saw a punk production of The White Devil (it was bad).
askye - Aug 30, 2007 11:50:05 am PDT #3567 of 10001
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Ginger, when you first said it I was picturing weird brightly colored muppety puppets, but with those puppets it might be interesting.
The question and answer might be interesting.