The animated worlds of Basil Twist: bringing objects to life is his obsession.(Biography)
American Theatre, December, 2005 by Blumenthal, Eileen
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"I feel like I'm a little old-fashioned," says master puppeteer Basil Twist.
Old-fashioned? Twist staged Symphonie Fantastique (1998) in a 1,000-gallon tank of water. For Red Beads (2005), he animated the scenery with electric fans, while live actors played the human characters. His puppets for both Symphonie Fantastique and Petrushka (2001) included unadorned lengths of fabric.
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Actually, the contradiction is only skin-deep. Whatever techniques Twist uses for a particular show, the core for him is the age-old basis of puppetry: as he puts it, ...
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