A show that makes rare appearances for an audience is always a treat for a performer, oft-times self-indulgent. Mr. Punch frightens and terrifies the mores and most of the folkways of today's society, but his indomitable spirit and panache remain for many, fascinating, like a good train wreck or an operation shown on Discovery Health. As a result, he is trotted out for the occasional lay audience, but this production has found its less unsettled foster home with his extended family, the artistic, creative, freethinking, anarchic and joyfully dysfunctional – people in many ways, not unlike the
Punch family itself.

Throughout time, the irascible Mr. Punch has wheedled and cajoled his way through an ongoing series of adventures, some dark, some mysterious, some lighthearted, some pithy, and some a complete waste of time and energy. This is one of those, but we're not sure which. We ask that any vegetables you throw at least be fresh – this show doesn't pay the bills these days, and produce is expensive.

The Dallas Puppet Theater is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and advancing the performing, visual, and creative art of puppetry in the Dallas/Fort Worth area through an ongoing series of performances, workshops, outreach programs, and collaborations with other organizations.

For almost 30 years, the Dallas Puppet Theater has worked with the Dallas Opera, the Symphony Association, the Dallas Morning News, the Dallas Public Library, Pegasus Theatre, the Dallas Theater Center, Addison Centre Theatre, Garland Summer Musicals, Casa Mañana, Garland Civic Theater, Waco-McClennan County Library System, TU Electric, Dallas Repertory Theatre, Theater Under the Stars, Pepsi-Cola, Moonwater Theater, Theatre Three, WaterTower Theater, Theatre Arlington, the Dallas Zoo, Irving Library, Maricopa County Library, Arlington Library, St Louis Library, the Meadows Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Houston Symphony, the Turtle Creek Chorale and a host of other organizations throughout the country to bring puppetry to an ever-widening audience. The Dallas Puppet Theater is uniquely qualified to bring life to ideas in order to teach and entertain.

For more than twenty years, the Dallas Puppet Theater produced an ongoing series of family performances, performing an average of fifty weeks per year with a collection of stories based on historical events, operas, original stories, and lighthearted adaptations of classic children's literature. Guest artists are also an important part of the Dallas Puppet Theater's programming, offering Metroplex audiences a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see some of the brightest stars in the puppetry universe.As the only full-service puppetry center in the Southwest, the Dallas Puppet Theater offers materials, technical, and historical research to puppeteers and puppet enthusiasts from all walks of life. Puppet-making workshops for children as well as technical workshops for educators and therapists make puppetry accessible and practical in a variety of uses. A gift shop full of puppets from around the world makes the Dallas Puppet Theater a one-of-a-kind resource for the Dallas-Fort Worth area. During the last five years, the Dallas Puppet Theater has presented more than four hundred performances for a total of almost 300,000 people at resident theaters and at events and venues throughout Dallas, the state of Texas, and the United States.

Constantly upgrading performances, building puppets, and performing makes the Dallas Puppet Theater one of the busiest theaters in the Dallas/Fort Worth area as well as the only permanent puppetry center in the Southwest. Future plans include securing a resident, museum-quality exhibit and collection to complement its eight hundred-plus volume library of puppet-related works, making the Dallas Puppet Theater an outstanding resource for puppeteers throughout the country.

Theater director Pix Smith serves as an advisor to both the national and international puppetry and theater organizations based in the United States as well as consulting on puppetry projects for a number of arts organizations. Michael Robinson, the theater's artistic and producing director, has served as adjunct faculty of Brookhaven College for more than 20 years as well as being an acclaimed costume and set designer, winning the Theater Critics Forum Choice Award, the Column Award, and recently honored with a Leon Rabin Award for his outstanding costume designs.