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Head-Dress and Puppet from Voice-In-Head, Iteration 2 |
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Lorenzo de Medici is the title character from Alfred de Musset's
play Lorenzaccio -- a play about nasty Italian Renaissance politics. Lorenzo is the weak, upper-class, cowardly, effete intellectual who eventually
assassinates the tyrannical Duke. |
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Here, Lorenzo (actor) is show
with his trusty assistant assassin, Scoronconcolo (knit sock and eyeballs). |
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Catherinede Medici is a noble, upstanding and virtuous woman who
reads latin, and casts a dark glance upon the unscrupulous pitching of woo.
However, in this production, she is combined with a different noble woman that has
a greater facility with nookie. |
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Sire Maurizio is a decadent, hot-headed member of the aristocracy. He likes to
get in fights, and he likes to frustrate the machinations of Lorenzo. |
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Philippo Strozzi is the scion of the House of Strozzi. He is
tired of killing, tired of decadence, tired of dishonor. He wants peace.
He wants to show kindness to his enemies. He does not want Lorenzo to
assassinate the Duke. Or does he? |
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Maria de Medici is the mother of Lorenzaccio, and therefore the
lame-duck matro of the Florentine branch of the Medici clan. She
despairs the wicked ways of her son. She grieves him as if he
were dead. She despises the petty, despicable wastrel that has
taken his place. |
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Cardinal Cibo is just about as bad as the Renaissance Catholic
Mafia could get. He is Wicked, conniving, lusty for power, sneaky, and
terribly clever. In this production, he is depicted by a bucket, into
which the Duke likes to pour his leftover red wine. |
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Trebaldo Freccia is an artist. He paints in the local cathedral.
He gets much abused. His is the butt that is the butt of sneering jokes
from Lorenzaccio. |
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Here we see the good
Duke making
a Frankenstein grab for Catherine. |
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Bob. oven mitt from Ikea®, aircraft cable, gardening gloves, old socks, polyester feather dusters,
table leg decorations, styrofoam balls, gaffer tape |
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Bob. Featured here with our cat, Cleo. |
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Dudley. Plastic bucket, fun fur, PVC tubing, tinsel garland, polyester feather duster, plush doll eyes, fun foam, mouse pad, hot glue. |
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Paulus. oven mitt from Ikea®, dollar store hat, polyester feather duster, plush doll eyes, fun foam, hot glue. |
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Rasta. rubberized garden gloves, oven mitt from Ikea®, dollar store hat, felt, plush doll eyes, purple fun foam. |
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Mr Wrench. oil filter wrench, small padlock, two miniature pipe wrenches, two garden sprinkler nozzles, Airline cable, cable clamps, tinsel garlands. |
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