MORE than 50 people attended the Dead Puppets Society production at Good Shepherd Catholic College’s Lumen Christi Centre.
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As part of their regional tour, members of Dead Puppet Society provide workshops to help widen minds, and expand knowledge and understanding of theatre.
The Establishing Regional Audiences (ERA) team performed the production Argus in a one-night show dazzling the audience, with the story of a boy’s journey to find his home, using the actor’s hands as puppets.
Workshops were run with Mount Isa Theatrical Company, Spinifex, Good Shepherd and St Joseph’s Cloncurry students, teaching the basics of developing puppets using the principles.
Principle one, focus, gave the puppet intelligence through what they are looking at and thinking.
Principle two was breath, ensuring the puppet was breathing and alive to add another layer of emotion.
Principle three was gravity, showing how the puppet interacts with its environment in a similar way that humans do.
The ERA team said Argus was the grandest story on the smallest scale possible.
Through the show, they wanted to break the conceived notion puppetry was only for kids, focusing on proving that it could be for everyone.
Good Shepherd Catholic College drama teacher Anna Telford said the audience was captivated.
“The opportunity to have actors from a company based in both Brisbane and New York to come to our town and share their art is an amazing opportunity,” she said.
“Many thanks to New ERA team for co-ordinating such a wonderful project into Mount Isa.”