Crafty Tuesday DragonCon Puppetry Slams Past
Posted By Kathleen David on September 1, 2020
If this had been a normal year, we would be driving down to DragonCon 2020.
I would be worrying about the puppet slam and going through my head with a punch list of what is left to be done and figuring out when we can rehearse.
The first DragonCon puppet slam was in 2011. I participated with a piece I had done originally at Shoreleave that year entitled “It’s OK to be Takei.” We had a sound issues, but it all worked out and we had fun and got the audience to laugh.
From Shoreleave 2011. I used the same puppets and a couple of friends at Dragoncon.
(For the VI: From left to right there is a Star Trek red shirt puppet with green skin and pointed ears based on the Character of Nicky from Avenue Q and a blue skinned Andorian puppet with a blue Star Trek shirt based on the Character of Rod)
The next year was one of our best I think which was “For a Lord of Time” using the Billy Joel song “for the longest time”.
(for the VI; This is a photo of Doctor Who versions 1 to 12 (Matt Smith) with puppeteers faces peeping out.)
The next one was “Get Loki” based on the Song “Get Lucky by Daft Punk. I assembled the Avengers and had three Loki’s in the mix to pull off the gags. That is the biggest set of puppets I have ever built for one show.
(For the VI: From right to left the three Loki’s, Colson, Black Widow, Iron man, and Captain America) Not pictured Thor, Nick Fury, hawkeye, and Maria Hill
We did a bit of a turn the next outing by taking one of Peter’s unpublished works entitled “The Cad in the Hat”, a parody of the Cat in the Hat. Maurice LaMarsh did a wonderful job of reading the poem as Orson Wells and I will always be grateful to him.
(The Puppets from left to right Scream 1 and Scream 2 (white body, blue hair, red shirt with a white emblem that says Scream 1 and Scream 2, blue wings and horns, an orange fish, the boy with black hair, white skin, and a red shirt, the girl with her blue dress and hair bow in blond hair, and the cad with a nerf gun)
The most recent one was Hellmo’s World which I have been wanting to do for years.
(From left to right Crowley puppeteer Gina, Supernatural Lucifer puppeteer John, Lucifer from Lucifer puppeteer Paul, Hellmo puppeteer me, John Constantine puppeteer Cherlyn, Aziraphale puppeteer Jamie and Caroline extra hands and props.)
I did have a great one for this year but that will go on the back burner until next year or I might revive Lord of Time for the 10th anniversary of the first DragonCon puppetslam or do both.
I am grateful for the DragonCon Puppet Slam and all the fun I have had with it.
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