JUST A PAPER

I had the chance again to work with one of my favourite materials - the newspaper. 

Around ninety young people were supposed to master the work with muppets, objects and paper in five different workshops during four days. My job was to introduce them to the work with paper. Somehow it felt strange at the beginning. The paper doesn't have eyes, and mouth and it isn't colourful enough. It's just a paper...  But after some experimenting it became easier and we enjoyed preparing our paper show. Nice and smooth work with a good result. 

(And I must visit the container of the local newspaper again, I am out of material!)

the magic of newspapers

One of many great materials to use in the puppetry world are newspapers. You can munch them, squeeze them, make big or small creatures out of them and they produce nice sounds... Plus, it's cheap and in the container of the local publisher (should I tell my source?) you can find a good bunch of them.

Together with these twelve girls we discovered the qualities of the material. Newspaper animals and monsters were all around. And afterwards the girls made these fantastic characters, Sammy, Lady Gaga, Smoking Guy and Gardener Lady :) Manipulating with three, they prepared short stories inspired by ... newspaper articles, of course.

Here's a little example of our work. I enjoyed it very much!! Thank you, girls, good job!