‘Twas toy library day and we borrowed a sizeable puppet theatre and ten puppets of differing sexes and occupations. Keira demanded a proper show. I tried, but quickly gave up. She was bored. I was bored. I couldn’t think up of a ‘nice’ story to tell.
Bad news for someone who tries to do this sort of thing for a living, eh?
Until I looked at the puppets in a different way. MY way.
I gave up trying to tell something for a ’child’, but something I’d like to listen to as well.
This is what came to me:
The show opened with Farmer Dave going to hospital in a serious condition after being bitten by a Funnel Web Spider. Pretty standard kind of injury, perhaps, for a outdoorsy kind of fellow, but not Dave.
You see, he’s an agoraphobic hydroponic black-tomato farmer who hasn’t been seen outside his series of greenhouses in years.
Worse, he arrives at the hospital saying that he’s been the victim of an attempted murder; that the only way a spider – or any creature large or small – could get into his place was if they were deliberately placed there. And Farmer Dave is pointing the finger straight at someone – Ms. Greensbottom, his neighbour, local primary school teacher and, until recently, his mistress. Dave secretly thinks the break up has mentally unhinged his rather flightly former love, who would do anything to jeopardise his potential reconciliation to his wife, Florence, who sells Avon.
Dave whispers into the ear of the local policeman his suspicions and accusations and the policeman – Marv, local yard glass beer drinking champion, once upon a time – promises to do a discrete investigation.
{This is as far as I got before I got very thirsty and begged for a break. My daughter, caught up in the [cleaner version] of the narrative, said, “No! No! More!”}
For the life of me though, I don’t know how to include this character. He calls himself ‘The Doctor’. I call him by his real name: Kevin Rudd, MD.
I am here to heal you
You can trust me
Just look into my eyes
Deeper…
I will help Australian working families.
I haven’t decided whether ‘The Doctor’ will be the hero or the villain yet.
What say you?
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The villian, definately the villian, I wouldn’t trust those eyes as far as i could kick them
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History will show K. Rudd was an alien life form that stowed away on the Tardis and ran amok when Dr Who popped in for a visit in the late 60′s.
K.Rudd’s home planet is full of people who speak extra-flourished words and double speak.
You’ll note that the constant lip licking of the alien is due to him having to assume a human form and keep the skin from drying out.
Otherwise he’ll have to eat his butler and find someone else to shine his shoes because he has an allergy to touching shoes but loves snacking on ear wax
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Ruddles is Duddles
I won’t say more or the soap box will come out!
You could probably kick eyes pretty far, I’d wager, Katrina. Though, maybe not if they’re still in the head, still attached to the body.
And I’d say, Karen, that you’ve got yourself a spectacular villain in that doctor. The close up was definitely chilling.
Nicely done.
Is Dr Rudd a hypnotist?
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lol….a great little story. Why not have interactive themes – one stream makes him a villain and the other stream, a hero.
Maybe it’s the glasses that control his mind: the wings send roots into his brain so that sometimes he’s rooted. When he removes his glasses, he is able to see the world clearly.
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What a great story.
Make him a good guy. There are so few of them . . .
A ‘choose your own Kevin adventure’ Megan, yes! I love it.