Grief, puppets collide in TheatreWorks' great Pretender by Chad Jones

You don't often think of puppets and drama together, but playwright David West Read makes a strong case for the combination in the world premiere of his The Great Pretender, the first show of TheatreWorks' 45th season. Original, funny and genuinely moving, Pretender is set in a very specific world " a "Captain Kangaroo"-like children's television program with a mild-mannered host interacting with spunky puppets " an…

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