When the puppeteers appear on stage with the puppets, they can use their bodies as a performance surface for the puppets. The boundaries between puppeteers, puppets and background become blurred in this open form of puppetry, incorporating a stage design of projections.
Puppets:
Elke and Hauke Haien from ‘The Rider on the White Horse’
Company:
KOBALT puppet theatre Lübeck
Puppet construction:
Antje Hohmuth (b. 1947)
Performance:
Silke Technau (b. 1955), Stephan Schlafke (b. 1962)
Date:
2011, Lübeck, Germany
Material:
Wood, textile
Loan:
KOBALT Puppet Theatre, Lübeck