hotlanta g.a.

So this past weekend I traveled to Atlanta to check in on the puppets. I had gotten word that they were half done and that if I wanted to give notes, now was the time...not one to ever pass up giving notes, I quickly headed out. The first thing I noticed was that the puppets are stunningly beautiful, I mean really some of the most sophisticated yet silly puppets I have ever seen (Quickly is set up so that the head moves when the puppeteers head moves - that kind of thing). The second thing I noticed is that they are friggin' huge!!! I mean, I knew that they were 15 puppets with some of them being 8 feet tall...but it's a whole 'nother thing to stand in a room overflowing with shakespeare puppets...especially one that is so fat and large it takes 3 people to operate.

One nice thing that kept happening, after our meetings during the day, we would often retire to the bar being "gentlemen of the thirst" and would then run into other local puppeteers. People kept going on and on about how the Falstaff puppet was one of the most gorgeous brilliantly designed puppets they had seen. Nice to know that he’s only half built and already racking up the fans.