For this module of my BA(Hons) Drama and Performance, I devised an adaptation of The Little Prince using puppetry, storytelling, and song. I used traverse staging and minimal props, lighting, and set to create an imtimate audience experience that could tour easily to small venues.
The development considered how wonderment and imagination could be cultivated in a mature audience, based upon research that creativity and imagination have health and wellbeing benefits in children. This kind of research hadn’t been carried out on adults but I didn’t see why the benefits should end with age. The R&D process helped shape the tone of the piece and made clear that puppetry is an excellent tool in evoking wonderment and the suspension of disbelief in an audience.
Unfortunately, due to COVID-19, we were unable to perform these pieces to a live audience. Instead, we were requested to provide a portfolio. The portfolio documents my rationale for the creative elements of the performance, which I ask you to consider first over the performance elements as I am not a performer.
Laura Valerie Walker 