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Canadian Stage Company, Toronto, Ontario, Canada >>>

2006

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Playwrights Canada Press (2008)

978 0887547379

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Barbican, London, EUR >>>

2009

Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

Puppets

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Billy Twinkle (breathlessly played by Burkett) is a suicidal cruise-ship puppeteer. Once the golden boy on the Saskatchewan puppet circuit, Billy has fallen into a compromised, commercial cul-de-sac. His spark gone, his marionettes tired and crude (showgirl Rusty Knockers bursts out of her corset), and his career at sea, Billy is tempted by the oblivion beyond the ship's edge. Enter Sid, Billy's deceased mentor and boyhood hero. Revitalised as a hand-puppet apparition, Sid attempts to galvanise his wilting protégé by replaying (puppet style) Billy's life before him. The ensuing biopic is a bedlam of the comic, the endearing and the absurd, as the extent of Burkett's dexterity and imagination unfurl. We meet Benji, a twisted ginger modernist about as cool as credit based economies; Brian, Billy's one time boyfriend who cradles a poodle called Mr Hamlet and endorses horizontal stripes for the podgy; Doreen Gray, a bum-bagged fundamentalist whose own hand-puppet (imagine Kermit and Christ fused) espouses dogma in the medium of rap ('His crib is really famous&'); and a mental, slippered pensioner with inflatable pink genitals. The list, quite wonderfully, goes on.
- Ben Aitken, British Theatre Guide

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Coteau Books (2003)

978 1895836882

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Playwrights Canada Press (2005)

978 0887547881

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An art historian travels to Europe to see and research a painting of a beautiful young man known as "Tender". It now hangs in a brothel presided over by a Madam who is verging on madness.

Winnipeg: Manitoba Theatre Centre, Manitoba, CAN >>>

1998

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Coteau Books (2003)

978 1895836875

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Winnipeg: Manitoba Theatre Centre, Manitoba, CAN >>>

1994

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Coteau Books (2003)

978 1895836868

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