The Rootabaga Shadows by Mark Bulwinkle
Created in June 2009 for a ShadowLight production of Dan Cantrell's Roootabaga Opera, based upon Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories which will be performed in mid-July, 2009, at The Crucible.
The scale of these "puppets" in relation to each other varies greatly. They are scaled equally here on this web page to facilitate and simplify publication on the web. These representations do, however, actually exist as thin sheet metal cut-outs. This is how they may appear as shadows against a screen. Currently, there are about 105 puppets which are painted black on one side and left shiny metal on the other. They are black on one side so that they can be recognized more quickly during performance.
Automobile Woman
Men in a Car
Woman in a Car
Man in a Car
Arrow
Bundle of Sticks on a Stick
Cowlick Boy
Cowlick Boy (front)
Braid Girl
Braid Girl (side)
Pitch Fork
An Eye
Man Driving
Man Driving
Woman Driving
Another Eye
Dad (Gimme-the-Axe)
Folding Houses
Spoon
A Tractor
Woman in a Window
Man in a Window
Stairs
Train Tracks or Ladders
3 Train Cars
Birds
Stars
Gallaxies
Star and Clown and Tiny Clowns
Arrows and a Clown
Clowns and Ordinary People
Train on a Track
Ordinary People
Ordinary People (More of them)
Clown
Large Clown Face
Large Clown Face
Running Pig with Separate Head
Farmer in a Pig + Head
Clown Oven
Clowns Baking!!
Stilts
Baloons
Window
Long Armed Man with a Club
Mistake Cow
Stilt Walker
Mistake Cow
Moon
Elephant Head
Elephant Body (male)
Woman with a Bundle
Woman with a Bundle #2
Long Arm Man with Club #2
Stilt Walker
Bow Legged Horse
The Sun
A Mistake Camel
A Goat
A Goose
A Policeman (woman)
Lamp Posts
Circus Tent (pretty big)
Sky Scraper (pretty big)
Skinny Trees
Sky Scraper (pretty big)
Meandering River (pretty big)
Waving Grass (pretty big)
Two Mountains (pretty big)
Waves (pretty big)
Pyramid (pretty big)
One Legged Goose
Otherway Train (upside down)
Zig Zag Tracks
Another Train and Weather Vanes(now on buildings)
Tractor Girl