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Handmaiden the Princess' attendant Scenes: Scene I. Half exterior yard, half interior. Scene II. Half court, half interior of a lavish palace. Scene III. Same as Scene I. A note on production: Recorded or live music can be used throughout. The narrator speaks from a position in the shadows beside the stage or entirely out of sight of the audience. Puppet movement should be graceful and highly stylized. Decoration of foliage and flowers fixed to the sides of the stage does not have to be removed with scene changes. Three backgrounds should be painted as expressively but as simply as possible on window shades, the third being a duplicate of the first. These rolled shades are arranged in sequence. Scene changes take place in full view of the audience: the shades are simply rolled slowly up at the ends of fine wires as the puppet appears to move from one locale to the other. Lighting changes can help make these changes quite impressive. |
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