DoPE Show 17



The seventeenth DoPE show, performed at Eurofurence 23, was titled "The Skies of Astar".

Plot summary
The plot given in the show's promotional flyer read:

Written by

 * Cheetah
 * Eisfuchs

Directed by

 * Cheetah

Stage Managers

 * Hai
 * Zefiro

Cast

 * Abraham French
 * Voice/Body: Runoratsu


 * Hands played by: * Luno Wroo


 * Florence Harrington
 * Voice/Body: Pan Hesekiel Shiroi


 * Hands played by: Liam


 * Cal Davis
 * Voice/Body: Eisfuchs


 * Hands played by: Tigerseye


 * Queen Irdis
 * Voice/Body: TaniDaReal


 * Hands played by: O'wolf


 * Feivel McBrookhaven
 * Voice/Body: Curry


 * Ortha
 * Voice/ Head: TaniDaReal


 * Body: O'wolf, Lee Taiger, Estragon, Lynard


 * Sarkan T. Welsh
 * Voice/Body: Jyanon


 * Hands played by: Curry


 * Dr, McKenzie
 * Voice/Body: Lynard


 * Hands played by: Kayjay


 * HW330 Pilot
 * Voice/Body: Haku


 * William
 * Voice/Body: Curry


 * Mae
 * Voice/Body: Eisfuchs


 * Hands played by: Shishi, Mesuri


 * Jack
 * Voice/Body: Jyanon


 * Hands played by: Black Wulf


 * Sly
 * Voice/Body: Runoratsu


 * Illyan
 * Voice/Body: Lynard


 * Hands played by: Kayjay


 * Dr. Hempwire
 * Voice/Body: Lynard
 * Hands played by: Kayjay


 * Eva Harrington
 * Voice: Reesa


 * Body/Hands played by: Shishi, Haku

Additional Puppeteers

 * Hai
 * Zefiro
 * Nex

Editors

 * Khakidoggy

Original Score

 * Fox Amoore

Sound Design

 * Cheetah

Lighting

 * Tsanawo

Pre-Recording / Live-Sound

 * Jaryic

Video Operator

 * Mendra

Special FX

 * Furvan
 * Kayjay
 * Da-Ti
 * Zefiro

Artwork

 * Cheetah
 * Curry
 * Luno Wroo
 * Pan Hesekiel Shiroi
 * TaniDaReal
 * Vinaru

Poster

 * Pan Hesekiel Shiroi

Set Design

 * TaniDaReal
 * Eisfuchs
 * Luno Wroo

Puppet building

 * Tioh
 * Angel
 * Da Ti
 * Furtech
 * Furvan
 * Haku
 * Henrieke
 * KayJay
 * Luno Wroo
 * Runoratsu
 * ShyWolf

Backdrops & prop building

 * Black Wulf, Blue_Panther, Cheetah, Curry, Cream, Da-Ti, Estragon, Furvan, Hai, Haku, Jayric, Jason, Kayjay, Kiwaloo, Kyron, Lee Taiger, Luno Wroo, Lynard, Mendra, Mesuri, Nex, O'Wolf, Quiran, Runoratsu, Shishi, ShyWolf, Suran, TaniDaReal, Tillikum, Tioh, Token, Zefiro

RATS (Remote Audio Trigger) System
(Remote controlled system custom made and used by the pawpeteers with the stage techs to cue sound effects while playing live.)
 * Kayjay
 * Zefiro

Guest musicians

 * Petephin
 * Pepper Coyote
 * Shadowwolfen
 * Xendren

Trivia

 * The show featured a Blacklight Scene which was played with movable planes which was performed in front of the stage, which is quite unusual for Puppet-Theater.
 * Since the Pompeii Show there where no four-legged puppets used since they were consindered as too comlicated to play and would use too much (3) puppeteers. Ortha was manouvered by at least 4 Puppeteers and even 5 in the UV-Scene which makes her the most complicated puppet since. Tioh who had the lead, over the building of Ortha, said that building that puppet was equaly the effort of making three fursuits since it features way more animatronics and unusual design-challenges.
 * while a normal Puppet weighs between 500 and 2500 Grams (depending on the animatronics) Ortha weighs 15 Kilograms which made it necessary to have a puppeteer with a backpack-mount to carry her throughout the show.
 * The Intro Show the Events that happenened before the Storyline of the Show, from the Colonisation of the World, The invention of planes, the war between Vanos and Graet Astar and the rebuilding after it. According to LunoWroo he imagined Great Astar as a mountainous country, because in the timeline the invention of flight took place before they where able to cross the oceans with ships.