Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

The Puppet Masters

In a play that already features love triangles and transvestites, adding puppets to the wacky Rocky Horror Show mix may seem relatively tame. If anything, though, “The puppets are allowing us to push the ... naughtiness quotient a little more,” says director and coproducer Kevin Christopher of the Saints and Poets Production Company. The brand-new performance group strives to use “puppetry for pure entertainment’s sake,” he explains. With some verified puppet nudity, that shouldn’t be a tough goal to meet. Onstage puppeteers and one human actor man the action, while live singers supply the vocals. It’s just a jump to the left and then a step to the right, but you’ve never done the “Time Warp” like this.