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Moby Dick depicted scenes such as shark attacks through slick puppetry.
PHOTO: CHRISTOPHE RAYNAUD DE LAGE
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SINGAPORE – To palpitating drums, larger-than-life puppets play out a brutal shark massacre onstage. An unearthly baby is pulled out of a lip-synching woman’s mouth, before her friends worship mechanically at a totem pole.
The Esplanade Theatre becomes a surreal indoor beach on which Lithuanian sunbathers sing blithely about ecology and shrimp eating to cure headaches.
