For all the puppet-maker’s best laid plans, the script writer’s fervent demands, a puppet is destined to become. A slip of the knife or an errant brush stroke remakes an imagined face. A mechanical transgression redefines a character. And, suddenly, this slightly altered character bursts in to demand a script change. The puppet has become its own self and what you thought was a story about a town has become a story about the world.
It is a fact we must not only accept but celebrate! The puppeteer, the playwright, and the puppet-maker must serve the puppet, and -- the puppet is always right.