I always really loved the vacancy of the background on The Letter People. I felt there was a world so much bigger beyond the puppet. Unlike real life where you can see the end of everywhere you look, this show left a black void behind the action. I feel this is much like a theatre. Also this show let me see, as I said to Jeff the other night, the cracks in the facade. People love to see the fingers of the puppeteer. It's like seeing the hands of the creator and they are in on some big secret. Later on, the Letter People, which was from a local PBS station in the midwest, received more money and built sets. It still had a similar feel but not like the early vacancy.
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ReplyDeleteConor, this is great stuff. The theatre is definitely a place where we're confronted with the trappings of how it's made - lights, rigging, etc. (ETC?) It's interesting to me, the moments when that's transcended, when we forget we're watching something manufactured because we're so emotionally invested, or so amused.
and . . . i want to sing the letter a song . . .
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