Marionettes

The great thing about puppets is that you can create a character completely from scratch. There is no actor's body already there to work around. You determine the body, the face, and the mechanisms to make it move. But, all that flexibility often just raises the terror of too much choice. Trying to make a puppet do everything leads to bland puppets. The trick is to give the puppet just exactly what it needs to fit into the story.

Bill Woodburn, Random Acts Puppet Theater, Austin, Texas