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- noun Plural form of
marionette .
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Funny adult humor and marionettes is fucking high art!
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Funny adult humor and marionettes is fucking high art!
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The choreography, by Naomi Goldberg Haas, playfully interweaves the marionettes' movements with those of the dancing puppeteers who double for their characters, so the puppets sometimes seem to fly—as does time.
Golem Comes to Life Kristin M. Jones 2011
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"LEN PIPER'S PINOCCHIO," refurbished and adapted for the Puppet Company stage, the production features life-size marionettes and live actors. 10 and 11: 30 a.m.,
Montgomery County community calendar, Oct. 28-Nov. 4, 2010 Post 2010
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Stylized 4-foot-high marionettes that were crafted in Prague by the carver Jakub Krejčí for "Golem" include a cart containing an apple seller's arms and toothily grinning head, a student with sacred pages in his scarlet chest that revolve as the rabbi reads, and another with a sea-green violin-shaped torso in the tale the students represent fire and water.
Golem Comes to Life Kristin M. Jones 2011
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Many of the figures have features resembling those of wooden marionettes or dilapidated toys.
John Seed: John Frame: The Intuitive John Seed 2011
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"LEN PIPER'S PINOCCHIO," refurbished and adapted for the Puppet Company stage, the production features life-size marionettes and live actors. 10 and 11: 30 a.m.,
Montgomery County community calendar, Oct. 21-28, 2010 Post 2010
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It is staged here as a puppet regime Punch and Judy show Jarry favoured the use of marionettes, a prequel to Simon Stephens's new play, which shows Ubu – a composite of all psychopathic despots – appearing in an international court, put on trial for war crimes.
The Taming of the Shrew; The Trial of Ubu; Our New Girl – review 2012
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Christopher Piper Puppets, marionettes and live performers romp in this version of "The Nutcracker" by the Puppet Co. Playhouse in Glen Echo, Md.
Mixed Nutcrackers 2011
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Many of the figures have features resembling those of wooden marionettes or dilapidated toys.
John Seed: John Frame: The Intuitive John Seed 2011
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