Prop sourcing

We are all currently looking/searching and keeping an eye out for 8 armchairs at all times. uckily today I found a cheap double armchair for a tenner! It suits the old fashioned looking theme so I bought it. This will be paid through our 'kitty' where we have all chipped in £20. 

This was a very good buy! 

Would be perfect for when two puppets are having an intimate conversation as two could fit perfectly together on it. 

Washing line idea - Gas attack scene

Letters - sketch book ideas

Set Design ideas - sketch book

MARY'S HAIR - THE MAKING

Horrors of War puppet

As a group, we experimented with this idea of creating a figure out of found objects that come together

Each person took charge of 'creating/finding' a limb and then when we came together and manipulated that limb..

During the experimentation, we manipulated the figure together, each on one body part, and got the figure to walk. We also liked the way the objects were scattered all over the room and then came together, walked as a figure, then completely fell to the ground into a pile of objects again. 

We really like the meaning an object brings, for instance, the clock - symbolising how time has past, reflection, memory...

Within our next exploration, we hope to find and bring more objects of relevance to create this figure

Sketch book - design ideas

The Horrors of War section - there is a lot of references to body parts being in pieces... 'picking em up in pieces' and 'replacing casualties' 'toe flicking off' etc...

Found it quite interesting to explore my earlier design and break it up into pieces that could come apart and join up together again - creating this dis-figured figure that appears and disappears with more than one manipulator...

Could experiment with the parts to create visual moments - explosions, war, attack, mayhem.. 

Could even start as a pile of junk/scraps/rubbish (something you would never expect to become a figure)