I saw Drunk Puppet Night. It was strange.
A grab bag of hit or miss puppetry for adults. To be fair, we had pretty bad seats, next to some loud, disrespectful hecklers. So I couldn't see some of the acts well at all. Which is rough for puppets. Although, loud disrespectful hecklers are probably part of the traditional puppetry experience if you consider puppetry historically.
Some of the acts were really awesome. The Adventure of Diamond Joe, while not exactly puppets, was awesome, charismatic and inspired. The story about Cora Gated, with puppets made of "found materials", clearly all recycled trash, was pretty damn awesome performance and construction. Paper Kant was a really cool stop motion animation. And there was a shadow puppet display about a guy on the beach that showed an amazing sense for rhythm.
Puppetry is animation before the invention of film. Just as theatre has become eclipsed by film and TV, puppetry captures the same imagination and skills as animation.
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