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I've decided to go back to performing with hand puppets. Whin I was eleven and twelve, the puppet theatre was a big thing for me. For my family in general. Encouraged by Mum, we made papier-mache heads and fabric costumes. I constructed the theatre with 'Auntie J' out of an old packing crate that has at one stage been an aviary breeding box. I wrote the scripts, and maybe others did too, but I can only remember my own. I wrote a lot of them. We each made puppets that expressed 'personalities', but not necessarily 'our own'. (Introduction)
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