Are we puppets, pulled by someone else on strings set in place by not only our parents but our culture? Are we animals living among other animal-types in costumes or with underlying drives we may or may not be aware of?
Are we dreamers who do not want to wake up to reality or who don' t want to give up on those dreams for ourselves or our children or collective future? What is wood could walk and talk, think and feel?
Such was the piece of wood Gepetto sought from his burly counterpart who had Quite the LongĀ Island accent of an I-talian nature (which one Italian audience member felt