One Act play festival

During September 9th and 10th the One Act play took place. We created and produced the play "The Otherside" for the One act play festival. The process of creating it was hard, strangely enough the most difficult part of this play was not the production aspect, as in Down To Earth, in "The Otherside" the hardest task was the undesrtanding of the text. There were too many things implicit on the text, too many in-jokes which would not be understood if the tone of the line was no adequate. When rehearsing we repeated each scene many times and had to cut many lines of the characters because we were not able to say them properly and when practicing we realized many were even out of context and could not be easily understood.

In my case i had several difficulties when rehearsing since many of the jokes incorporated in mytext were said by the puppet i used. When acting like the puppet I had to change my voice to a higher pitch and made it more difficult to understand me. Not only the text but when using the puppet i had to learn how to move it. My hand itself was the puppet and i had to learn when to open its mouth, not only when speaking but when laughing and reacting in general to my chracter. If someone in the room was talking not only I stared at the person but also the puppet had to, working with it was a different experience than any other I´ve had while in the school plays.

What is the importance and trascendence of an elemnt such as the puppet in a play like The Otherside?