The Good Puppet of Szechwan

Nov. 4-22, $16, Walking Fish Theatre, 2509 Frankford Ave., 215-427-9255, walkingfishtheatre.com.

by Lauren Seibert

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Published: Oct 28, 2009

theater/puppetry

Not all puppets are innocent — but Walking Fish hopes you can trust them anyway. In Stan Heleva's new play, based on Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan, one puppet discovers it's not so easy to be good in a corrupt world. "This may not be like some of the puppet shows people have seen," says Heleva. "It's more serious and more not serious at the same time. I think they'll really enjoy having this simple allegorical tale told to them by puppets, because people tend to ... believe in puppets more than they do people."

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