At Readercon, someone asked me if I had ever made a puppet show from one of my stories. Two. Sort of. Beauty Will Come is something I did for Pixel-Stained Technopeasant day last year and is not really a puppet show, though it might look like one for a moment.
I used toy theater technique to create moving illustrations for an audio story. If it were a true puppet show, I’d have cut the narration and shown with action rather than words. Still, it’s the closest thing I’ve got recorded.
I’ve written for stage, but always adapting someone else’s work. My only original script was for Willamette Radio Workshop‘s Murder of Crows. Huh. I just remembered that Shades of Milk and Honey started as a radio script for a serial.
The other puppet show from my fiction is a monologue by a talking dinosaur, which was a short I wrote in first person, so it was kind of a no brainer about adapting it for stage. Most of my short fiction is ill-suited to puppetry either because it’s an all human cast or because there are too many scenic locations to work for stage. Hm… Evil Robot Monkey and Clockwork Chickadee are the only ones that I can think of that might make the transition. Everything else? Too many people and very little reason to need puppets.
