Vedova in lumine vs School play

Second Week started and we saw a play that imply dancing and acting “Vedova in Lumine“ was the name of the play which means widow illuminated. The name of the play helped to understand that the character was a widow.  The use of puppets in the play was essential as only wan actor performed. In comparison with the school play we are planning the idea both have the use of puppets and masks but the stimuli was different. For the school the use of masks and puppets developed in the vision from the stimuli and in “Vedova in Lumine” the stimuli was the burn puppet in the new year celebration so the stimuli already involved puppets but then the vision developed to the dancing and doing main actions with the puppets. The theme on “Vedova in Lumine” was difficult to understand because the main, and only, character that performed was crazy. This lead to confusion on why the character did what she did (for example having sex the whole play with the puppets, which was what made the play boring and bad for me), but then when you take a look to the name of the play you can get that the theme is a woman loneliness.

Although I didn’t like the play, the use of puppets and masks teach me important things that could be apply lately in the school play. For example the different levels of details in the puppets. There was one that was only black so it was more difficult to figure who was, but then we saw a soldier and it was clear that he was a soldier. Then the different materials; most of them looked as they were made of cloths but the soldier seem to be made of metal things and boxes. All the puppets where manipulated by the character but both doing the same type of action together (again… having sex), but there was one that the actor get inside the puppet and her legs represented the ones of the puppet where only the actions of the puppet where seen not the ones of the character. The sizes between puppets also vary… although the smaller was a little bit less than human size… In the school play the size will also vary but I think the difference between sizes must be bigger to be clearer as it will reflect the power the character has.

I think the play we saw was really boring although it had the puppets and the dancing because we couldn’t understand the intention of the character and almost all the play happened the same thing (sex with puppets … AGAIN).  Now I ask to my self, what does a crazy character need to clarify the intention of its actions?