It was in the darkness of the city's puppet theatre that the Light came.

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She then fled Munich for Aschersleben, near Leipzig, where she married again and opened a puppet theatre.

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The essays cover Japanese puppet theatre, church paintings, ballet, grottoes and Italian photography, and all are subjected to detailed, passionate and often infectious celebration.

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The rich repertoire of songs and scores preserves ancient folk music and poems and has influenced opera, puppet theatre and other performing art traditions.

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Clothes with everyday designs are worn regularly in business and academic settings, while special varieties are incorporated into celebrations of marriage and pregnancy and into puppet theatre and other art forms.

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Each of four local communities Kita-machi, Higashi-machi, Nishi-machi and Hom-machi creates a parade float that serves at once as a space to worship a deity and as a multi-level puppet theatre.

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But when I awoke, to see the puppet von Trapp children gathered on puppet Maria's puppet bed, I thought back to what the theatre's managing director had said, backstage, in amongst the delicately carved and painted marionettes.

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