Puppet Show

We thought about what we could contribute to our Maltese Market. We wanted to deal a traditional aspect of the Maltese culture. So we decided to stage a puppet show based on a Maltese folktale, "The Fisherman's Son".

First we planned how to build our puppet theatre and how to change the text into a dialog. Each of us was responsible for something: Mona built the theatre and brought the puppets, Manuela changed the text into a dialog, Sharon organised the boxes and Judit painted a poster which showed the times of performance. She also made a house for the stage which could be changed into a school.

When we had everything we needed for the show, we soon realised that we still had plenty to do. We had to decide on whether to use a microphone or not and whether we needed more scenery. After an initial rehearsal, we came to the conclusion that a microphone was necessary, as was more scenery and more elaborate folklore embellishment of the whole theatre.

Although we prepared everything carefully, some problems emerged during the performance with passing the microphone around and keeping invisible behind the stage. But we improved with each performance, our audiences seemed pleased, and we found the project indeed rewarding!

Judit Fehrmann, Mona Flöter, Sharon Harvey, Manuela Six

Click here to download Manuela's version of "The Fisherman's Son"!