Before we get underway let me give updates as they’re happening.
After careful consideration there WILL be a KIckstarter/Indiegogo campaign. We want and need this to be the best possible production we can manage. We want and need the people involved to be paid. I myself will not make a dime off of this and indeed, at the end of the day this performance cannot, even by miracle, turn a profit. This is long term investment so to speak. My payday will come down the road. But the space must be paid for (as always) whatever is on stage must be procured and the personnel must be paid. We’re working on a grant and filling the seats for the performances will actually not be a problem at all. But still we will need more money to ensure everyone involved is paid and all expenses met, so when the time to begin the campaign draws close you will hear about it. We’ll talk then.
Oh, and you bet your sweet behind after the performance happens we’ll be posting extensive videos of it.
But for today, let’s look at stage puppetry! The Director Mark Swetz has a number of interesting ideas, a few of which can only be pulled off down the road but one of the cooler ones we can and will do this performance is use puppets to be the Dolls, especially Jasper THE Doll character.
Stage puppetry has been going strong for awhile now. The following videos illustrate different examples. How WE go about it will depend on the puppeteer we find to design and implement the Doll concept. These videos are not intended to show what OUR Doll will look like, just some cool examples of puppetry on stage.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ0wkSErIUg]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6qKP-4G21I]
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/20887649]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU_tSc51_ks]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9UDn6jhYoU]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq_wwWM0tso]
And of course the extremely successful West End Show, War Horse:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxX1oI0ZDtY]
