The 1982 novel Friday, a more conventional adventure story ( borrowing a character and backstory from the earlier short story Gulf, also containing suggestions of connection to The Puppet Masters ) continued a Heinlein theme of expecting what he saw as the continued disintegration of Earth's society, to the point where the title character is strongly encouraged to seek a new life off-planet.

The Puppet Masters is a 1951 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein in which American secret agents battle parasitic invaders from outer space.

1960 ); Blok, Alexander: " The Puppet Show ", " The Light Wandered about in the Window ", " The Puppet Booth ", " In the Hour when the Narcissus Flowers Drink Hard ", " He Appeared at a Smart Ball ", " Double " ( 1902 – 1905 ; series related to Blok's play The Puppet Show under # Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues | Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues above ); Guro, Elena: " Boredom " and " Lunar ", from The Hurdy-Gurdy ( 1909 ); Kuzmin, Mikhail Alekseevich: " Where will I find words " ( 1906 ), " In sad and pale make-up " ( 1912 ).

Aside from these, the most interesting events are " Theatrical Confrontations " in Lublin ( October ), the open-air " Malta " festival in Poznań ( June ), Kraków's " Ballet in Spring " and the Puppet Theatre Biennial in Bielsko-Biała.

Shortened from Sock Puppet.

Image: osonowiki. jpg | The character Osono, from the play Hade Sugata Onna Maiginu, in a performance by the Tonda Traditional Puppet Troupe of Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, Japan-an example of Japanese Bunraku puppetry.

The Rajasthani Puppet from India is notable and there are many Indian ventriloquists and puppeteers.

Their new album titled ' Puppet " is set to release on 11 / 1 / 11 Members of the band include Stabbing Westward and Econoline Crush drummer Johnny Haro, Murderdolls-guitarist Eric Griffin, bassist Martin Kelly from Living Dead Lights and guitarist Ryan Seelback.

" Dunoon is referenced in the 2010 Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre sketch ' The Getaway ', in which the bank-robbing Socks mistakenly heist four kilos of small denomination coins and are forced to scale back their hideaway destination from Venezuela to the small Scottish town.

From the 1940s onwards, the BBC in the United Kingdom, produced a wide series of marionette programmes for children and then created The BBC Television Puppet Theatre based in Lime Grove Studios from 1955 – 1964, Usually under the title Watch With Mother The various programmes included Whirligig, The Woodentops, Bill and Ben, Muffin The Mule, Rubovia a series created by Gordon Murray and Andy Pandy.

Neil Cicierega, also the creator of the Potter Puppet Pals, is responsible from the outset explosion of Harry Potter's use in animutation, most notably starting in Hyakugojyuuichi.

Ubu Roi has been translated most recently by David Ball in the Norton Anthology of Drama ( 2010 ), and performed at the University of Virginia the same year ; and by Sherry CM Lindquist, an adaptation of whose version was performed in Chicago, at The Public Theater in New York, at the International Festival Of Puppet Theater and at the Edison Theater, St. Louis, Missouri, by Hystopolis Productions, Chicago, from 1996 to ' 97.

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Riddley Walker was also adapted, with permission and aid from Russell Hoban, for Trouble Puppet Theater Co. by Artistic Director Connor Hopkins, with performances September 29 through October 16, 2011, at Salvage Vanguard Theater in Austin, Texas.

The character Osono, from the play Hade Sugata Onna Maiginu ( 艶容女舞衣 ), in a performance by the Tonda Puppet Troupe of Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture.

** " Puppet Master " ( Fantastic Four episode ), an episode from the 2006 cartoon series featuring the above character

* The Cavemen from Puppet Up!

He was, however, more reminiscent of the Puppet Master ( a Golden Age Bat-foe from Detective Comics v. 1 /# 212 ).

Puppet segments were taken from the American series and dubbed in Hebrew ( the same has been done in all other Israeli versions of the series ).

The name Bread & Puppet derives from the theater's practice of sharing its own fresh bread, served for free with aioli, with the audience of each performance as a means of creating community, and from its central principle that art should be as basic to life as bread.

The Bread & Puppet Theater has received National Endowment for the Arts grants and numerous awards from the Puppeteers of America and other organizations.

* Videos of the Bread & Puppet Theater from Green Valley Media

* Russian — Blok, Alexander: The Fairground Booth a. k. a. The Puppet Show ( 1906 ); Evreinov, Nikolai: A Merry Death ( 1908 ), Today's Columbine ( 1915 ), The Chief Thing ( 1921 ; turned into film, La Comédie du bonheur, in 1940 ).

Puppet Stayman, invented by Kit Woolsey and Steve Robinson, is a variation of the Stayman convention intended to solve that problem.

Here is a typical Puppet Stayman auction:

The Białystok Puppet Theater (), established in 1953, is one of the oldest Polish puppet theaters.

One of the most often-cited parts of Anatoly Kuznetsov's documentary novel Babi Yar is the testimony of Dina Pronicheva, an actress of the Kiev Puppet Theatre, and a survivor.

In Starspawn by Kenneth Von Gunden, Earth is infiltrated by small parasitic aliens capable of attaching themselves to a human and controlling him or her-similar to the scenario of Heinlein's aforementioned The Puppet Masters-except that the invasion takes place in Medieval England, against the background of knights besieging a castle.

Podgorica is also host to the City Theatre ( Gradsko pozorište ), which includes the Children's Theatre and the Puppet Theatre.

Koyo Shrine Puppet Show-This is a puppet show also known as " Kitabaru Puppet Show " which uses kugutsu puppets that perform dance and sumo wrestling matches.

The only purpose-built UK marionette theatre is The Harlequin Puppet Theatre ( built 1958 ) in Rhos on Sea, North Wales, Founded by the late Eric Bramall FRSA and continued by Chris Somerville.

Other theatres that occasionally perform with marionettes are the Little Angel Theatre founded by John and Lyndie Wright in Islington, London, Whose first ever show The Wild Night Of The Witches was a marionette play, It opened the theatre in 1961 and was revived for the 50th anniversary in 2011 The Norwich Puppet Theatre founded by Ray & Joan DaSilva sometimes present marionette shows and the Puppet Theatre Barge continue to perform using long string marionettes throughout the year, founded by Gren Middleton and Juliet Rogers The barge is based in Little Venice, London during the winter months and tours to places such as Richmond Upon Thames during the summer.

* Davros's threats to destroy Gallifrey and the Time Lords are referenced in the Doctor Who Annual 2006, where it is claimed that " one of the Dalek Puppet Emperors openly declared his hostility ".

Nakamura refuses on the basis that the Puppet Master is just a self-preserving program, with Project 2501 arguing back that DNA is the same.

Additionally, Biggar has Scotland's only permanent puppet theatre, Biggar Puppet Theatre, which is run by the well known Purves Puppets family.

There is an opera-ballet theater, a philharmonic orchestra, Chuvash State Puppet Theater and numerous theaters ( showing productions in both Russian and Chuvash languages ).

There is a professional Puppet Show and the Angazhement Youth Theater.

Biwa-cho is the home of the Tonda Traditional Bunraku Puppet Troupe, a troupe founded in the 1830s in the tradition of Bunraku puppetry.

* Abdulla Shaig Puppet Theatre in Baku, Azerbaijan is completed and opened.

Directors and companies like Peter Schumann of Bread and Puppet Theatre, Bob Frith of Horse and Bamboo Theatre, and Sandy Speiler of In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre have also combined mask and puppet theatre where the performer, puppets and objects are integrated within a largely visual theatre world that minimises the use of spoken language.

Modern use of ragdoll physics goes beyond death sequences — there are fighting games where the player controls one part of the body of the fighter and the rest follows along, such as Rag Doll Kung Fu, Puppet Army Faction's Kontrol, and even racing games such as the FlatOut series.

The Bread & Puppet Theater is a regular participant in New York's Village Halloween Parade, noted for its use of giant puppets.

Extended to allow the use of any Kid Pix, Moopie, Stampimator and Digital Puppet files in the slide show.

* Hand Puppet A puppet theatre dedicated to education through puppetry and the use of hand puppets.

On several occasions the jealous Puppet Master would use his clay to manipulate the lives of the Fantastic Four where his stepdaughter was concerned, in particular to " guard " his precious Alicia from marrying the likes of the Thing.

The Black Puppet controlled by the Woman were given the Armor for use on the Parent Types.

* Bread and Puppet Theater, creator of paper mache art use in march