Preparing our meeting on gaze

For the practical meeting, it was asked to each group participant to propose a game, experiment or dynamics concerning the discussion about the importance of the gaze in puppetry dramaturgy and training.

As an attempt to help the group to come up with the propositions, here follows some questions that could be of some use. The propositons doesn´t need to be related to the questions; these are mere provocations.


1. How can we draw attention away from us by using our own gaze? And how do we take it back? What does it say about the audience´s attention?

2. How could we tell a story with objects and other materials without touching them? How do we make gaze to be of more, or at least same, importance as speech?

3. How can we give and take the impression of life from an object (puppet) with (both puppet´s and puppeteer´s) gaze?

4. What does the absence of eye contact between puppet and puppeteer may tell us?

5. How can we be at different times and spaces by using gaze?

The Post Office, by Rabindranath Tagore (2012). UFU Theater Course