The School of the Transfer of Energy Puppet Theater, established in 2002, is a portable table-top theater which features 3 puppet forms. The main stage consists of a rod puppet stage which sits in front of a shadow screen. The action of the stories takes place and exchanges between these two platforms. There is also a separate marionette stage built for a single large marionette, who is the narrator of the story. Work on the theater is ongoing to perpetual. Performances of the play The Two Deaths of John Beartrist Laceroot do take place, but at rare intervals.
- The Puppet Theater in 2011
- Operating the shadow theater of The Two Deaths of John Beartrist Laceroot by candlelight, 2002
- The Puppet Theater for a performance in Roanoke, VA 2002
- operating a shadow scene in Longmont, CO in 2003
- Jonas, the narrator marionette and one of the Laceroot rod puppets.
- The puppet theater with side screens and corbels
- Laceroot in his rocker in the workshop
- Cedar Laceroot before painting
- Laceroot in his living room
- Understage controls
- Observed
- Laceroot in the trees
- Red Bellied Woodpecker, rod and string puppet
- the mechanics
- Cedar and copper prototype of Tremendum Goldbeard
- Cedar and copper prototype of Tremendum Goldbeard
- Jonas Marionette and Laceroot rod puppet, from the play The Two Deaths of John Beartrist Laceroot
- Small marionette stage using one of the packing crates for the theater
- cutting out a shadow screen.
- moving shadow projector
- The bare stage with removable floor and right and left wings
- Front view of the bare stage with removable floor and side wings
- Carved walnut corbel under the stage wings
- repairing shadow puppets
- Working on a shadow scene
- Sunlight through the screens
- Laceroot rod puppet
- Mechanics, under the stage
- The School of the Transfer of Energy Puppet Theater display at the Wichita Center for the Arts, 2003
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