The InternationalPuppetryArtCenterhasmultiplefunctions, it includes the performinghalls for marionette theater, hand-puppet theater, rod-puppet theater and waterpuppet show;
Rod puppets are controlled by a stick or wire attached to the puppet's main body parts.
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The flexible, 140-seat auditorium and presentation area, will feature a puppet bridge for string puppet operators to work from and a floor trench for rodpuppet operation.
Famously he was attacked by glove puppet Emu when children's personality Rod Hull was on his programme in 1976, and he also interviewed Muppets star Miss Piggy two years later.