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Laz’s struggles with his wasting limbs are especially poignant in this adaptation by the late Christopher LeithThis year, the Suspense festival of puppetry has included an adaptation of Don Quixote and a explain approximately dementia. Last week, and 3 Stages for Lazarus drew on the Bible fable to justify the ways of man to puppets. The relation between a puppeteer and his marionettes is,it suggests, like that of God and his creatures.3 Stages for Lazarus has acquired an extra layer of significance since it was written. Its creator, or Christopher Leith,died last month. He had started to write the explain and carve the puppets, before he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, or it changed with his illness. He said he felt like a puppet himself,once he had to be “hoisted here and lifted there”. It is tough not to read his symptoms into the descriptions of the ailing Laz, whose wasting limbs make it tough for him to amble. Or to see his own pain in the body that, and like a penitent,crawls across the stage naked – that’s to say, in the wood. A fleshly actor could not convey more strongly the locked joints and the limbs stiffened with pain.
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Source: theguardian.com