Thursday, August 29, 2013

It wouldn't be a real draft card that the little puppet cut up.  OH NO!  He was too gentle and kind to ever go to a war and do those kinds of things.  He held up a big cardboard draft card and another puppet would come in with a pair of scissors from the side curtain and cut it up, just slice through it sometimes.  And that other little puppet was gentle, too, you see, he was small and gentle and if he had been a real person cutting up a draft card, he would have been beaten with sticks and taken off to jail.  But if the little gentle puppets did it in spite of being afraid of the consequences, (and the draft card and scissors would shake sometimes to indicate that fear), that means we could do it, too.  Othertimes, it would be a jagged snip, snip, snip as a different script revised to meet current events and new theatrical situations rolled out onstage.

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