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Mirth and Misery are a London based puppet company founded in 2012 by puppeteer and theatre-maker Sian Kidd. We make work that explores the contemporary string puppet, focusing on collaboration with musicians to emphasise the visual language of the marionette. Our aim is to create inspiring, darkly humorous theatre, which stimulates and engages as wide an audience as possible. Mirth and Misery invite you to enter their world of putrefied puppetry and witness their manipulation of the damned. Performed with a live four piece band, each character has a song and each song tells a story....Who lives? Who dies? Who cares?