the function of imagination

The performance of compagnie mossoux bonte by Kefar Nahum is widely criticized as a sensitive and beautiful puppet theatre work, which is part of london mime festival.

Rather than considering it as a puppet theatre or mime theatre, I would like to make it a definition of physical theatre because it is obvious that we audience paid attention to the performer as much as the puppet before the performer turned out to be a conceptional puppet in the end of the show. The puppet therefore could be clarified as a mask, which is generally used in a physical theatre with the function of separating the performer's individual personality from the characteristic he express. In this way, Kefar Nahum approached a puppet as she would a role- as an encounter between herselves and the character embodied in the puppet.

like most of the physical theatre, Kefar's performance is proved to be physically multi-meaning visual piece especially when it erased any voices. The understanding of physical theatre, in my point of view, is far more developed after watching this performance as I personally illustrate engaging the audience's individual imagination instead of the performer's imagination is one of the most important principles. For example, when I recognized the conception of a scenery,which is a big bird tried to kill a small one, as a killing loop, some else sitting next to me considered it as a despair redemption. However, we both thought it is interesting. I admit that all the magic impression rely on a experienced performance skill, although it stands right opposite of highly-imaginary audience. Still I need to explore far more on how to arose the audience imagination in the future laboratory.