Creative Forces

There are times we do things just to see what happens. The Afternoon Balloon & Coffee Project was one of those what if sessions.

The general questions of this day were: "What would happen if you made characters from balloons?" and "What would happen if you drank 4 one liter press pots of coffee between 3 people in less than 3 hours?"

We intended to find out and found out more about ourselves than we wanted.

This is a balloon version
of our popular Schnoz puppet.

Behold the proto-hare.

We eventually gave the Odyssey thought up and didn't use the balloon animals. We used toys, narration, a box (to hold the toys) and object manipulation.

We confused our audience, but not enough for them to ask themselves if what we were doing was puppetry.

But  nothing seemed correct.

Nothing leapt out at us....

So, out came the wigs.

Not much came of that either. But if we ever do a production of Medea, we are ready.

 The ultimate verdict of the Afternoon Balloon & Coffee Project was that we drink entirely too much coffee and that a change in venue was required.

After reconvening at the local coffee house it was decided that another project with better documentation and less coffee was needed.