‘Kayfabe’ by Josh Rice

“Kayfabe” is a puppet wrestling entertainment spectacular written, directed and designed by Josh Rice – appropriate for all ages. Tabletop puppetry meets pro wrestling meets a rock show! High art meets low art meets Samuel Beckett! This frenetic frenzy of puppet wrestling action is an absurdist, metafictional love letter to professional wrestling and puppetry.

Philosopher Roland Barthes wrote, “The function of the wrestler is not to win; it is to go exactly through the motions that are expected of him.” What is expected of a puppet when the persona of Dr. Kiss and the tropes and trappings of the professional wrestling world are thrust upon them, as they barrel toward their destiny as the main event of PuppetMania?

Expect the unexpected when form meets function, when reality and fantasy collide, when the lines between real and fake blur. This is “Kayfabe.”