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Energize Your Puppet Scripts – Part 2

In the last post, I talked about the importance of maintaining proper volume when doing scripts. If the audience can’t hear the play, having great puppet skills doesn’t help.

If you want to energize your play and make it one that the audience will remember, there is one key element you have to have. Enthusiasm!

• Keep in mind it’s not about you performing, but what the audience receives. In other words, do it for the audience, not yourself. If it’s an entertainment type play, focus on presenting it in a way to give the audience as many laughs as you can. If it’s ministry related, understand that if done well, it has the potential to bring real change in some audience members.

• Don’t just read the lines, but play the part. Become the character you are portraying with your puppet. If your character is happy, think about how you act when happy and have the puppet act that same way.

• Read through the play from the perspective of your character. How would you feel if you were going through that situation? What kinds of emotions would hit and how strong would they be? Add that drama to your play when performing it.

• Know the play. The only way to do that is to practice it over and over. You don’t have to memorize the play, but you should know it well enough that you only have to glance at the script while performing. If you have to read the script, it takes a lot of concentration and the enthusiasm drops off.

• The better you know the script, the more confidence you’ll have. The more confident you are, the more enthusiastic you become. If you aren’t prepared for the presentation, apprehension can set in which robs your enthusiasm.

I’d much rather watch a team with great enthusiasm and mediocre puppet skills than a team with great puppet skills and no enthusiasm. But the ideal is to watch a team with great puppet skills and great enthusiasm, a goal every puppet team should strive for.

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