Puppets give you power: power to engage and hold children’s attention, even in a crowd; power to create a ‘proxy child’ with whom the audience can identify; power to create a regular structure that children can master and within which they can learn.
Easter reminds me of the most embarrassing moment of my life: the time I brought a dead man back to life just by touching him. I think it is the shock, surprise, and comedy of Easter that remind me of that day.