Glutz: Living Statue

Glutz Puppetry Show

Glutz puppet show was a site specific piece written to be performed in a public square. This gave us the flexibility to perform the show the same way in the Cardiff run and the shows at the Prague Quadrennial. I was a team leader of a group of four designers and between us we made five puppets and a costume. Although we all assisted each other, everyone took over one aspect or another of the brief and I focused on the costume for the living statue and the dragon puppet. This board focuses on the living statue costume.

Its a classical chiton dress which I draped on a stand and then painted into with idenden. The drapes kept their shape. Due to the fact that I played more than one character I wasn’t able to paint my skin so I made a mask to match. I also made a prop lyre to go with the costume and the whole thing was painted to look like an imitation of marble.

Prague show photography by Richard Finkelstein, Cardiff show photography taken by Kristen McTernan.