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Worst Sock Puppet EVER

Posted by DCA Theater on August 27, 2009 in July-December 2009 Season, INCUBATOR Series: Promethean Theatre Ensemble

by Ed Rutherford, co-director of A Month of Development

Isn’t it a thing of repellent beauty? Meet Dickie, the Canary. He’s a (mercifully brief) presence in our staged performance of the John Collier short story “Over Insurance.” I made him (with HOURS of painstaking labor, can’t you tell?) a couple of days ago and we’ll be rehearsing with him tonight. Notice that it’s essentially a yellow(ish) sock with a cardboard cone stuck on the end. Still, this canary has a lot of personality. Seriously though, it’s ok to mock it- actually part of the humor of the piece comes from how ramshackle the production values are. I hope that when Dickie makes his appearance (on the arm of one of our guest artists, Paul Miller) it gets a laugh. I hope you’ll join me in finding out this Monday!