Puppy Love Days
May 12th 2010 05:26
Original Creative Writing:
Bruce Keller and David Jobling
Link: www.adelaidenews.com.au
Some notes on Puppy Love The tail of a dog 1980's
There was a considerable response to PUPPY LOVE: the tale of a dog for pre-school children in the early 1980's.
The Sydney Festival included the original production, written by Bruce Keller with David Paul Jobling in Sydney Theatre Comapny season of children's plays during the festival.
I enjoyed the gusto with which Bruce the actor attacked the role; he had started off with an idea but had no real method or process he could use to create his work. After talking about my experiences of creating children's theatre with him, he asked me to come in and work with him on this idea of his to create a one-man show for kids.
Essentially it seemed that he wanted his very own Kids Stuff a play by Raymond Cousse had been playing with the company for some very successful seasons.
Bruce repeatedly remarked that he should have such a vehicle, like Julie's; to enable him to make money off of his work. Not just a play to tour, but one he wrote!
It was is and always will be, in so many ways - our work - however Bruce saw it differently but that's another story... or at least a thread I'll follow up with later. We worked at ANTHILL in South Melbourne starting each day with a long physical warm-up followed by a session of physical development.
The practicality of Bruce playing a puppy for an hour the way he wanted to do it - pretty much sewn into a cow-hide costume, required that he work on his all fours, hands and knees.
I felt it was going to be important to make sure he was ready to spend that much time on his hands and knees without breaking his back, so I developed a series of exersices stretching his back, legs and shoulders.
We looked at images of dogs, read kids books about dogs, and discussed the content; the ways stories were told; what was important to dogs, who was etc...
photo by David Jobling
The Sydney Festival included the original production, written by Bruce Keller with David Paul Jobling in Sydney Theatre Comapny season of children's plays during the festival.
photo by David Jobling
Essentially it seemed that he wanted his very own Kids Stuff a play by Raymond Cousse had been playing with the company for some very successful seasons.
photo by David Jobling
It was is and always will be, in so many ways - our work - however Bruce saw it differently but that's another story... or at least a thread I'll follow up with later. We worked at ANTHILL in South Melbourne starting each day with a long physical warm-up followed by a session of physical development.
The practicality of Bruce playing a puppy for an hour the way he wanted to do it - pretty much sewn into a cow-hide costume, required that he work on his all fours, hands and knees.
I felt it was going to be important to make sure he was ready to spend that much time on his hands and knees without breaking his back, so I developed a series of exersices stretching his back, legs and shoulders.
We looked at images of dogs, read kids books about dogs, and discussed the content; the ways stories were told; what was important to dogs, who was etc...
photo by David Jobling
photo by David Jobling
photo by David Jobling
photo by David Jobling
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