Last Friday, I was listening to CBC Radio 1’s show Q. The host of the show did an interview with the members of The Old Trout Puppet Workshop & Friends from Alberta. They are former university classmates, who got together to form this puppet workshop. Their efforts have realised The Famous Puppet Death Scenes, which showed at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts last week.
I was intrigued by their description of their puppet show. They explained how they created several characters to depict various ways of dying. What an interesting topic for a puppet show Ghomeshi commented. The puppet creators agreed. They stated that they wanted to provide people a different way to deal with the topic of death. It is easier to accept even the most gruesome death when the individual who dies is a puppet. In that sense, they make a good point. READ MORE
