Enter the contemporary play. That magical artifice in which the freshness and manner of the telling is every bit as important as what is told. What vital combination of conventions, technology, media -- feathers, horns and whistles will fit together to make this story exactly right, triumphantly new and effective?
Among the many roles puppetry has to play in the current culture, it has no better calling than the needs of the modern theater. The perfect partner, puppetry joins contemporary theater in the giddy search for new and amazing ways to tell the story. For example, puppetry’s power to shift a play into a dream sequence, a memory, or a parallel world has universal acceptance. But let the user beware. To enter the abstract or the mythic through puppetry is easy enough to do. It is also easy to get terribly wrong.