What's that puppet doing in my play? Smitten by puppet love, 5 playwrights compare notes on writing for objects brought to life.(Paula Vogel, Erik Ehn, Crystal Skillman, Kira Obolensky, Octavio Solis)(Interview)
American Theatre, February, 2004 by Van Lente, Gretchen
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As playwright Octavio Solis tells it, in the puppet world playwrights are the "low men on the totem pole." Why? Because this is a world in which the power and the prerogative belong to either the puppet artist--the all-encompassing puppeteer/playmaker/director/guru--or to the puppet company, the collective of artists working for a common mean, whether that be political assertion or children's amusement or creative expression.
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Puppet theatre began, in all likelihood, with the cave man: It was a tool of pageant and ritual, a pure experience. Puppeteers today are ...
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