Puppets

This week I’ve been doing a research about Mexican theatre that I’ve found very interesting as I liked the tradition of Day of the deaths. In this tradition, they have a lot of influence from “the Aztecs”, and they use masks and puppets. They use a really interesting type of puppet which I will be centering my investigation in, this will help for the school play, as we might use this.

Talking about the school play, this week made me think of all the characters that there might be, as in “Vedova in Lumine”, I really thought it was going to be a great idea to have actors dancing with puppets, but in a shorter time, so that it will not be boring and also as I am helping with the puppets, I thought It was going to be a great idea to use the one in “Vedova in Lumine” where the actress went inside the puppet and control it inside it. This also has to do with the “Day of the deaths” in my Mexican tradition as they have a similar type of puppets, they use it very similar and I think it will work a lot in the school play.

Also we now know all the scenes and all the acting in some of the scenes in the school play, this gives me a better vision of it, and as I am helping mainly in the scenery, I wanted to have a better idea of it, but as time was short I couldn’t, this left me really nervous and worried, as I don’t have a vision of it and I am wondering when we will have time to have a meeting just the IB students to discuss about it.

We went to see “La cocina” this week, the play was boring in some parts and interesting in some others. It was boring when the energy of the actors were very low and they didn’t had many actions and also they left a lot of gaps between dialogues (in some parts), which made the play boring. On the other hand they had parts where the energy of the actors were really high, which made me wake up and focus my attention in the play, also they had activities as a dance they did, which gave me an idea for the school play, we can use this types of dances for the pirates and with the puppets, this can be in the scene of the point of view of the main pirate and he can be using the pirates and making them dance. What I’ve been thinking through this week is “La cocina” has a game?, our play has a game: “each scene is by a different characters point of view”, but does “La cocina” has a game?