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Work-in-progress scrapbook, p. 1: The Ventriloquist Convention


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The Ventriloquist Convention

Conception & Direction: Gisele Vienne
Text: Dennis Cooper, in collaboration with the performers
Incidental Sound: Stephen O'Malley & Peter Rehberg

World Premiere: Puppentheater, Halle, Germany, July 9, 10 2015


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Ventriloquists

Nils, winner of the reality show America's Greatest Talent, multi-year/multimillion dollar performing contract with a major Las Vegas hotel
Puppet:Lutz (a Nils doppelganger)

Lars, "world's greatest ventriloquist", performs on cruise ships
Puppet: Orson (a dead old man in a coffin)

Sebastian, performs between the acts at rock festivals and rock concerts
Puppet: Kurt Cobain

Katarina, groupie, performs alongside a hygienist in elementary schools, girlfriend of Sebastian
Puppet: Spray can

Ines, performs in hospitals for sick and dying children
Puppet: Fred (a very ill boy)

Kerstin, daughter of the late, legendary Klaus Kraus, the most famous and popular ventriloquist of all time
Puppet: Frankie (her father's famous puppet)

Uta, visual artist/puppeteer who is trying to merge the mediums of puppetry and contemporary art
Puppet: Pillow disguised as a Brancusi sculpture

Jessica, transgendered, performs in cabarets, father of Vincent
Puppet: Praying mantis

Vincent, 16 year-old aspiring ventriloquist, son of Jessica
Puppet: Fake Muppet



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Cast

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Nils

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Kerstin

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Ines

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Katarina

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Lars

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Sebastian

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Uta

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Vincent & Jessica



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Set design (tentative)

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Early rehearsals (@ Halle Puppentheater)

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(l. to r.) Vincent, Uta, Ines, Max (not in the piece), Lars, Kerstin, Nils, Katarina, Jessica, Sebastian.

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Select puppets (design & under construction)

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Kurt Cobain



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Praying mantis


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Spray can


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Fred


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Brancusi pillow


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Lutz



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Halle Puppentheater's storeroom

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p.s. Hey. So, tomorrow will be the last new post and p.s. for a while. Starting on Wednesday, I'll be on a much needed vacation/break from the film work. You'll be getting rerun posts and short, prewritten p.s.es during that time. Newness involving fresh posts and full-fledged p.s.es will return on Saturday, April 7th. Okey-doke? ** Scunnard, Hey, bud. Nice to see you! I'm fried, and I suddenly have a cold, and my wallet was stolen, but I'm pretty good otherwise. I'm hope you're fully good. ** Thomas Moronic, Nice number. My weekend had its up and down, but it's over. Thanks about the new film idea. Yeah, we're really excited. I've started writing it in my spare moments and hopefully more fleshily while I'm taking this upcoming breather. ** Keaton, Hi, 6'er. Can't say that I ever wear make-up, no. You recommend any products? Marry? In northern France? Curious in both ways. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. I knew by face all but about, oh, three of them, I think. ** Flit, Howdy-doody, Flit! Sight for sore eyes and fingers, you are. You better than good? ** James, Hi, James. Well, nearly early-done. Or it's early-done as of late last night. We'll have weeks more work in April to get it perfect, but it's ready to be judged, I guess. Awesome Sarraute score! Whoa! That's a very good price you managed to get there. My favorite of hers, 'The Golden Fruits', which you now have (!), is super hard to find for that relative pittance. Mm, no, I don't think I've read that Rollin book. I'll seek it out. He's very, very good! Yeah, I, of course, really want to see 'It Follows' at the soonest opportunity. ** Magick mike, You lucky dog! Great interview with you by Thomas, man. ** Sickly, You too! ** Sypha, Hi, 5-ster. ** White tiger, Dude, that was so great and fun and popular and all kinds of awesome, crazy shit. Thank you, thank you ever so much again and for all of eternity! Big love, me. ** The Dreadful Flying Glove, Hi, Glove! Hugs! Thanks a lot, man. Yeah, I need the vacation. It's been intense. I'm borderline burned-out. Burned-out but can't afford it. Weird combo. I wish you the sleep of the gods, whatever that means. ** Chris Dankland, Hi, Chris! Great that the readings went well! Oh, Oliver Mol. I just became FB friends with him. I'm really curious to red his book. He has a great name. I'm sweating to get to listen to the new Death Grips. On the plane, I think. Great! Major and happiest things to you! ** Steevee, Oh, listen, I thought Brel was French until I'd already lived here for four years. Aznavour can be pretty great. I don't know if you saw Christophe Honore's 'Man au bain' in which I play a small part but, in one of my scenes, I make Francois Sagat listen to an Aznavour song. Your word on that short film is enough to get me to search it out. Huh. Love the structuralist structure, of course. ** Misanthrope, Hi. No, I'm, like, what am I, 11? Got your thing and mailed you back. You rule, motherfucker! Yeah, by late in the year, you might be a wealthy, jet-setting man. Weirder, if not a whole lot weirder, I'll admit, things have happened. ** Kier, Hi, hi, hi, Kier! Home ownership does seem so adult. I don't I'll ever own a house. I'm so sorry that someone let you down. They suck. Fuck whoever did that with a truncheon. No, with many truncheons simultaneously. My weekend was intense. Uh, we worked on the film all day into the later night on Saturday. We put in the temporary French subtitles. We tried our best, or, rather, Zac's best, to correct the shitty compositing work and do the special effects where the compositing guy didn't even try. That took a while, but we managed to get most of the problems looking almost acceptable, or acceptable enough for the submission version of the film, or to a point where it was better to use the semi-crappy effects than cut the scenes. We had to go buy a BluRay burner to burn the BluRays for the submission. That's when things started to suck because apparently I was pickpocketed during our metro ride to the electronics store because when I got home a couple of hours later I had no wallet and someone had tried to run up big charges using my card. So, I have no money, no bank card, nothing, and the fraud department of my bank didn't believe I was me when I called, so I have to make a bunch of calls and shit to get them to give me a new card, ugh. Then I got a cold in the middle of the night, from which I'm suffering with a ever-increasing degree of bleah. On Sunday, we did more attempted compositing re-work and did some last color grading, and then we watched the film, and it looked/sounded pretty great under the circumstances, so we started rendering it for submission, which basically ended up taking all night. Now I'm about to go over to Zac's and make sure the BluRays are okay, and then we'll go drop the film/BluRay off at the two Cannes Film Festival offices in Paris (by the 4 pm deadline) that are designated for the two categories in which we're submitting today: 'Director's Fortnight' and whatever the 'Critics' section is called, I forget. Need I even say, it's a very super long-shot that our film will get selected for Cannes, but it would stupid not to try, and you never know. So, yeah, a long weekend. How was Monday on your side? ** Grant maierhofer, Thanks for popping by to share that. Everyone, Mega-writer and d.l. Grant Maierhofer's new book is coming so soon, and here he is to alert you to it and related stuff. Listen up, please. GM: 'i just wanted to stop by and share the preorder for 'Marcel'. it'll be coming out in April. the page has Kate Zambreno's blurb but the physical book will have Sean Kilpatrick's and Matthew Simmons' as well, for whatever that's worth. I also wrote a think for the blog portion of the publisher's page that i'm gonna keep doing as a column. here's the preorder (the book isn't actually squared off like that it's just a condense image of what's on the cover. while the text is sorted out) and here's the column thing.' ** Chilly Jay Chill, Hi, Jeff '6' Jackson. Thank for the crossed fingers. We'll need them, that's for incredibly sure. I know and like James Tadd Adcox's work. I think I've read at least bits of Todd Kaneko and Brian Costello, but my head cold is fucking with my memory. 'Anti-Clock' sounds very, very familiar, huh. I'll see what I can find. Thanks a lot, Jeff. ** Armando, Hi! You'll be in New York then. That's cool and exciting! What are you doing there? Yeah, I think I'll be here. Plus, I have to move to a new apartment at the end of April, and I'm pretty sure I'll be here doing that for weeks. I would like to read them, of course. It'll take me a little to actually read them because I'm overworked and fried, but I will, and I would love to. ** Okay. Today I thought I'd share some random stuff related to the early-to-mid-period work on Gisele's and my new theater piece, in case it's of interest. See you tomorrow.

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