Puppets live for the light. With stage lighting comes shadows, focus and drama. Imperfections turn into character, wood and paint into flesh. And under the spotlights, the abstract world of the puppet becomes, for the moment, real.
But, in our admiration of the eloquently lit stage, we blithely disregard another more prosaic light— the light of the room -- the light of the day. A mistake. For with this light the puppet comes with his ever-present friend--- the puppeteer. And together they present an entirely different kind of puppetry. There in that simple light of everyday life a different kind of puppetry transpires. Real life experiences, social interchange, occurs here between puppet, puppeteer and audience members alike.