The Little Players

The Little Players were a repertory puppet troupe that performed in New York City from 1952 to the early 1980s, producing ballets, operas, and plays. The company consisted of five puppet characters; a single puppeteer, Francis J. Peschka; and W. Gordon Murdock, who provided the costuming, lighting, and musical accompaniment.[1] In 1966, The New Yorker critic Edmund Wilson declared Peschka "the greatest master of glove-puppetry whose work I have ever seen."[2]

  1. ^ O'Connor, John J. "TV: Hand-Puppet Theater on Cable," Archived 24 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times 7 July 1982.
  2. ^ Wilson, Edmund. "Notes From a European Diary—1966 II—Rome," Archived 2 December 2020 at the Wayback Machine The New Yorker 21 May 1966. 74.