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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

Manual Cinema, a Chicago troupe that uses shadow and light to otherworldly effect, arrives at BAM with this puppet play about what happens when Death takes some personal days.

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2017

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

From Washington Post • Jul. 9, 2015

The puppet play of Punch and Judy has enjoyed immense popularity in western Europe.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham




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