Parade-Pageant for the Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival, August 16
Here is the proposal:
Each of the kid and/or community group usually has a group action or dance with
its own type of music, which could walk along with them. If there were, say, six groups,
we would have six identical sets of protagonists (easy enough with puppets; you just make
a set of six of each of them). We would divide the audience into, say, five or eight sets,
at various viewing points.
The show would proceed as a parade with short pauses for performance at the viewing points.
At each point there would be a short interaction between, say, the Hero and Villain,
narrated through signs by the Best Friend/Igor/ Nursemaid/Journalist, and ending with a
mass action and/or dance by the group. Maybe the villain would seek the hero and the group
would obstruct him by tickling, fighting, disguising, etc. Maybe the hero and heroine would
be given a piece of a puzzle by the group, whatever.
When the short action was over, the parade would move on. By the fifth pause, the first
viewing point would be seeing the fifth act, while the fifth viewing point would be seeing
the first. If the parade went in a circle, by the end the protagonists at the beginning of
the parade would be in sight of the end, and the people at the end could enact the Sci-fi
paradox wherein they affect the present by changing the past, turn around, and roll up the
parade going in the other direction collecting music as they went. It would be a good
situation for a plot about global warming, say, where we want to change the future,
As you see, everybody gets only one scene, but on the other hand, everyone gets a starring role.
Sara Peattie
The Puppeteers Cooperative
Rehearsals will happen in the three weeks before Aug. 16, that is the last week of July
and the first two of August.
To participate, call Sara Peattie at (617) 263-2031