Drum Set

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Our marionette theater evolved under the influence of two prominent art forms - film and rock and roll.  The plays were written with an underlying pattern of motion and sound that supported the song of the play.   Edited like a film into sharp intervals  and punctuated crisply with music, actions, and entrances, our stage became a drum set -- our plays, at their best, a flow of coordinated movements.  That is, three- line monologue, puppet entrance, sound, music, four-line dialogue, sound, drop, music, puppet exit, prop down, five line dialogue, new drop, dance, exit puppet, three line monologue, sound, prop, puppet exit=  about two minutes of a fifty-minute play.   A way of writing.