Breakfast on my balcony listening to "This American Life". Grey morning, just stopped raining, birds tweeting merrily and I'm looking at facebook.
THE PROBLEM OF TWO HEADS
We've spent the week wondering about the thought processes of a character that is being "ridden". Our puppets are combination of a lady riding on the back of a bird. So each puppet has two heads and one tail. The problem for the puppeteer working the head of the bird (apart from never knowing which head is being referred to when the director says "turn the head...") is how to be alive, involved in the scene, adding to the scene and yet not draw attention from the "rider" who is actually singing the libretto. What is in the minds of three giant birds carrying three opera singers who are singing about magic flutes, lusty young men and mysterious trials? It's not an everyday problem.
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