KAYFABE is a puppet wrestling entertainment spectacular written, directed and designed by
Josh Rice. Table-top puppetry meets pro wrestling meets a rock show! High art meets low art
meets Samuel Beckett!! This frenetic frenzy of puppet wrestling action is an absurdist
meta-fictional love letter to professional wrestling and puppetry.

Philosopher Roland Barthes wrote, “the function of the wrestler is not to win; it is to go exactly
through the motions that are expected of him.” What is expected of a puppet when the persona
of Dr. Kiss, and the tropes and trappings of the professional wrestling world are thrust upon
them, as they barrel toward their destiny as the main event of PuppetMania??

Expect the unexpected when form meets function, when reality and fantasy collide, when the
lines between real and fake blur—this is KAYFABE. Appropriate for all audiences.