Over the next few weeks...
Each of you...
Post a description of the characters and scenery that you are creating for your Chinese shadow puppetry project.
Post a link to a good, interesting, entertaining, helpful site that you have found on the subject.
Post a comment on why (whether?) you think moral tales, fables, cautionary stories, stories with messages (propoganda?) are well communicated through puppetry. Why might an audience be inclined to be influenced more by a puppet than a person, after all, there is a person behind the puppet...isn't there? Why might someone learn more from a shadow than a human? Might we learn more from a piece with no words than a traditional spoken play? Might we learn different things?
Post responses to each other's responses.
Team with most/best quality post wins a prize.
