Controllers

There are (probably) four controllers which are accesible to the audience. They are attached, through a pulley system, to the puppets wrists and ankles. Four brave/fun souls from the audience will choose to take charge of one controller each. Their manipulations of the handles, pulling and releasing, will directly engage the puppets limbs. They will have control of the limbs of the puppet. Furthermore, the pulling and releasing of the handles will result in audio responses unique to each of the four pulleys (probably fragments of interviews about addiction). As the 'handlers' experiement with pulling and releasing they will realise that there is a 'sweet spot' in each of the pulleys which results in a unique audio response in which all four 'agree' in some way. This 'position of agreement' will be, besides the generator of the unique audio response, also the positions required by each handle for the puppet to reach the scissors.
The collaboration of the audience 'handlers' are directly responsible for the puppet being able to cut his strings, to fall, and to proceed with the rest of the performance!