The Toulouse Lautrec puppet was to make his appearances from within a circus wagon acting as a sort of puppet theatre. Here is my original sketch for the wagon. I as puppeteer would be dressed all in black with a black hood so that I would simply disappear into the black background. The puppet moved within this space on a slightly raked shallow stage. The cat and ringmaster were taken from poster designs by Lautrec himself. Although I liked this design I later used the ringmaster in another part of the set and so as not to duplicate the image I reworked the circus wagon into a simpler design.
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