My Ideas before starting, for Mistero Buffo

After hearing that there is a death character in the play, I have had an idea of how we can create a great effect. I have spoken to my tutor and we were able to make it even better.

My original idea was to take a life sized Halloween skeleton and harness it to someones back to create the appearance of it being a 9-10ft tall grim reaper. We would then dress them in a long black flowing cloak. My tutor suggested we could even move the jaw with the use of a some puppeteering and someone outside of the costume could articulate the arms in a similar way to that of the puppets in Avenue Q. Here is an example:

I think with our piece we would go for a more hidden puppeteer though rather than the blatant style of Avenue Q. Perhaps having our puppeteers more like that in the style of Bunraku.