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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

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

From Washington Post • Jul. 9, 2015

Presented by Jane Catherine Shaw, curator of La MaMa Puppet Slam, this puppet play invites children to accompany a child named Cassie Day on her adventures into outer space and back.

From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2015

For the assailant was Messer Simone dei Bardi, that strode a big horse and was girt with a big sword, and looked for all the world like the painted giant of a puppet play.

From The God of Love by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)




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