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January 2004 Newsletter  The Power of the PuppetThe joy of playing with a puppet is singular. To handle a puppet is to supercharge the imagination, and provoke and inspire a basic, fundamental narrative urge. What will it say? What will it do? What will happen? Puppets transcend the earthbound world and remind us of the value of simplicity. Puppets aren't cynical, and they aren't selfish. Irony is not a word in their vocabulary. Above all, they are honest, earnest, hard-working storytellers. Synapse's upcoming production of ANIMAL FARM, The Musical will feature an eye-popping cast of "full-body" puppet characters designed and built specifically for these performances by designers Emily DeCola and Eric Wright. DeCola and Wright's ingenious designs employ an astonishing array of puppetry forms - from shadow, to stick-and-rod, to totem and tandem - and enable the performers both to inhabit the animal characters as life-sized puppets and to act - speaking and singing the parts with nuance and clarity. With their help, ANIMAL FARM will transport you to an incredible new world, where horses talk and pigs rule!
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