marionettes

     

A marionette is a type of puppet with strings controlle by a puppeteer called a manipulator from above. Marionettes are operated with the puppeteer hidden or revealed to an audience by using a vertical or horizontal control bar in different forms of theatres or entertainment venues. They have also been used most effectively in films and on television.

Trivia about marionettes

  • String puppets are often called these, affer a certain virgin
  • Not far from the park's public theater is another public theater--for these string puppets, in the Swedish Cottage
  • They're the kind of puppets for which Paul Hindemith wrote his opera "Das Nusch-Nuschi"

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