…As Marta pulls backdrops and Gretl pushes props behind the ‘stage’, Maria and the older children sing and control the puppets from above. The figures of the lonely goatherd, the girl in the pale pink coat and her gleaming mama, wiggle and jiggle to the pull of strings…. What can a puppet show evoke around love and faith? All is revealed in Chapter 31 of The Sound of Musings
