Puppetry Performance

Our first performance of the verbatim piece went fairly smoothly.
The only issue we had was during the bus stop scene where the 'male' puppets leg fell off. Unfortunately the puppeteers on the puppet didn't notice until the puppets were back at the table. If they had of noticed sooner should they have acted out about it? Would it have taken away from the seriousness of the issue we were trying to raise?

After the performance we received a lot of good feedback asking about the topic and how we went about collecting data. We also received opinions and a small debate about whether or not other people dealt with this kind of harassment and a few conversations after the play lead onto where the piece could go from here.

with more research and more time it would be interesting to face more difficult issues and experience than what we performed. However unfortunately the research we gathered didn't have anything particularly shocking. It was difficult to get people to talk about their experiences let alone to get really mentally scaring material out of people. That was just one thing that would have always been difficult to get from people as it is a very personal experience.

Q: why puppets?
Puppets allowed us to discounted our prior thoughts that we have about somebody before they talk. We judge people from their clothes, hair and how they present themselves. With puppets we can not project an image of a 'stereotype' onto it and therefore we listen better to what they have to say.