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puppet play

NOUN
puppet show
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Her first self-described opus was a collection of poems, “Rhyming Cats,” before she moved on to a morality puppet play featuring a ghost and an “expose of false narratives.”

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 3, 2025

World-renowned South African puppeteer Adrian Kohler has realised a 30-year-long ambition to make a novel by Nobel laureate JM Coetzee into a puppet play.

From BBC Aug. 2, 2023

She met Gelb while rehearsing a puppet play at Carnegie Mellon, thought he was a genius and has worked with him ever since.

From New York Times Aug. 18, 2021

It’s a ballet performed by construction cranes and a puppet play for adults only.

From Washington Post Jul. 9, 2015

After the Devil comes Punch, who in the puppet play destroys him.

From George Cruikshank by Chesson, W. H.




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