Interesting Facts About Puppet Shows

By Raymond Cole


When you were a kid, you might be interesting on what it feels like to be a puppet. Well, we all know that these are just animated objects which are controlled by some person at the back or beside them. Before we talk more about our childhood point of view, here are interesting facts about puppet shows Chicago.

Nowadays, we can no longer see the relevance of these theater plays because we already have smart phones, laptops, televisions, and all other devices used for our entertainment. These devices are invented to give us accessible entertainment wherever we go. However, we might not have felt the kind of joy that these people experienced where there is still no such technology.

That is why theatrical actors and actresses exert extra effort to internalize their assigned personality so that they could effectively project it in from of their audiences. Internalizing the personality of the cartoon is not an easy process because these people underwent years of training just to master the techniques in acting. They have to satisfy the expectations of the public not because it is their job to do it, but also because they love doing it.

Their team is well equipped with the knowledge and skills to entertain these audiences and this includes the practice of puppetry. Aside from theatrical dramas, musical shows, and other live shows, they also perform puppetry. The people who speak and moves for the puppets are puppeteers.

These professionals are trained on how to properly manipulate and control these artificial actors through the use of hands, arms, rods, and other control devices. They studied the details of the script and move their puppets according to the content of their dialogue. We might have tries doing this activity for our school presentations but we might have not tried doing this with utmost synchronization and mastery.

It is not easy to memorize the entire script, matching the movement of your hands with the tone of your voice most especially when it already involves eye blinking, ear movements, and eye rolling. You must be an expert of multi tasking before you present yourself in front of the pool of people. You should also be confident enough in order to project the character of your assigned puppet.

Some puppeteers who already experts in this field could even shift voices. For example, when their objects are female, they should sound like a female although they are males. On the other hand, if they are assigned with a male cartoon, then even though they are girls, they must sound like a boy too.

This began in Greece when they still utilize socks as their characters. Some reports have shown that this actually originated three thousand years BC wherein they use them as a material for rituals, religious objects, religious performances and symbolical representations. They also use it during celebrations wherein they represent a person and this created a psychological impact to the earliest societies.

This profession would definitely influence your entire being. That is why when we were young we are well entertained by these actors. Meaning to say, the way they perform is effective for us. If you aspire to become a puppeteer someday, then practice as early as now.




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