Curiosity

I am beginning to work on a show entitled... "Curiosity". It is the exploration of Pandora's Box through the world of puppetry...

Here are a few great puppetry websites that I am using as starting points for inspiration and research...

1. Puppeteers
2. Pagesperso-orange
3. Sagecraft
4. Unima-USA

It is a world almost entirely new to me, and yet one that I have been profoundly influenced by and deeply intrigued in understanding. Something about manipulating a small world is a bit scintillating to me! I will be working with a number of my lighting design colleagues at UMass, Amherst to develop a lighting design that will help aid in telling a story and creating a world for the production.

Here are a few of my starting points for research...


"A pithos from Crete, ca. 675 BC. Louvre"


"An Attic pyxis, 440–430 BC. British Museum"


"Pithoi at Knossos."


Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Replica: Pandora, 1879


Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Pandora

When you start a new project, where do you begin?

Group Studio i.

Jen Delyth...

Working on a Group Studio project now...We are beginning to develop a piece of devised theatre that will be performed at the end of the semester. I am very excited about this project. I hope it will be a glorious ride like the one I took while at Westmont working on the Mariner (adaption of Homer's the Odyssey). The class was asked to bring a myth to class with them. I have decided to peruse the myths found in Ancient Celtic...This one was translated into Enlgish...unfortunately many of them weren't like these ones...

I am very excited to look more deeply into The Courtship of Ferb.

More in the coming weeks and months.