All guitars should be destroyed. Autoharps can stick around for a little longer, but accordions are on notice.
The fun of seeing people do assignments (react to a theme)is when they really use the assignment to stretch themselves, not when they build a tenuous bridge of justification between it and what they would probably do anyway.
It helps if your puppets “read” from more than two feet away, ’cause only your parent’s living room is that intimate.
What does it take to fill a house that seats 125 on a rainy Wednesday night? 14 performers not waiting back stage and a couple of their friends each.
One joke does not a sketch make.
Grabbing an object and bouncing it along a table surface is a barely effective way of having a puppet portray “walking”.
There are Seven Deadly Sins – Seven. It says so on your flyer and you told us that at the beginning of the show. So how come there were so many times when I couldn’t figure out which one you were trying to show me?
Snarky Lesbian break-up duet for Wrath? Excellent.
A good puppet is a legible and expressive character visually. A great puppeteer can make that puppet express many different things through movement and timing, allowing the puppet to change in front of your eyes. When you realize that the great puppeteer is three different people moving together in an intimate dance with an object while projecting outward to the audience a series of emotions, you know you’re seeing art. Brava, Green Fairy/Envy crew.
Pre-recorded music for puppets is pretty much a bummer, “Symphonie Fantastique” not withstanding.
Two to four lovely moments, a seven dollar ticket price and a brisk running time are all that it takes for me to feel perfectly happy that I went to see this show, even with my griping. Thanks for taking me, Thor.
Bonus thing I learned: it’s very nice indeed to come home to a pumpkin carved by a sweetie.
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