The director of my first scene was a student director and wanted me to do things that were physically impossible with the puppet I had and also seemed to belive that a puppet is a prop that would look OK if it just popped up. The only reason I even was alowed to have a good enterance was because the main director realized how horrible it worked. In addition, because the student director felt puppets were a burden given by the main director to the scene, the only "dirction" I got was that my arm (wich was at the highest it could go without being seen) was not high enough.
Anyway,
the play went well. Oddly enough, the long scene with the bord puppet had to be cut out (the puppet, not the scene) because I ended up having to play a pirat in the scene because of the stupidity of one of the cast members. I got to add another scene for the puppet, which was shorter, and it also allowed me to see how much audiences LOVE puppets. When the Neverbird came out, the audience cheered (they also laughed, even though Peter had pretended he had just died). When I came out in curain call with the bird, people would scream. They loved the bird puppet. After one show one guy told me he thought the bird was anamatronic. The reaction from children when we went out to meet with the audience was great. I am glad to have been given this oppritunity.
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