When the curtain falls on a marionette's show, they're put out to pasture, given a facelift " or turned into burglar deterrents 'This thing is alive, this thing is alive, this thing is alive." The insistence of this fact, says puppeteer Toby Olié, is essential to his job. "You are the soul and life force of a puppet, and you're using suspension of disbelief to animate. So when the puppeteer lets go, that's the momen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AM on September 4, 2019