sentences:  Both the 2003 world premiere at the Trinity Repertory Company and subsequent 2004 production at the Long Wharf Theatre featured bunraku puppets created by Basil Twist, a New York-based puppeteer.The traditional bunraku function of the Japanese "tayū" (or chanter), who, among other narrative tasks, performs a puppet character's utterances, is fulfilled by the Man or Woman narrator at the beginning of the journey and then by a puppeteer (one per child character) in the latter part of the journey.In so doing, Vogel is able to continue the traditional "tayū"'s fluctuation between first-person and second-person address.