swap_horiz Spejbl Alternatives

1

Jiří Trnka (filmmaker)

Jiří Trnka was a Czech illustrator, puppet maker, animator, and film director whose career in animated cinema began afte...

Classic Animation Czech Puppet Filmmaker

9.6 Brilliant

2

Handspring Puppet Company

Handspring Puppet Company is a South African puppetry and contemporary-theatre company founded in 1981 by Adrian Kohler,...

Theater Contemporary South African Puppet Company

9.4 Excellent

3

Howdy Doody

Howdy Doody is a vintage marionette created for NBC’s The Howdy Doody Show. He was notable as a pioneering figure in chi...

Vintage American Marionette Nbc

8.9 Great

4

Drak Theatre (Czech)

Drak Theatre is a professional Czech puppet theater founded in Hradec Králové in 1958. Its productions combine marionett...

Modern Czech Puppet Theater Hradec Kralove

8.7 Great

5

The Two and Only (Jay Johnson show)

The Two and Only is a one-person Broadway stage production created and performed by Jay Johnson. It combines memoir, com...

Theater Jay Johnson Ventriloquism Broadway Solo

8.7 Great

6

Beany

Beany is a boy puppet character created by animator Bob Clampett for the puppet television series Time for Beany, which...

Vintage American Marionette Boy

8.5 Great

7

Mr. Punch

Mr. Punch is the central hook-nosed, hunchbacked trickster character of the traditional British Punch and Judy hand pupp...

Traditional British Slapstick Hand Puppet

8.3 Great

8

Tyrone (Hand to God)

Tyrone is a fictional demonic sock puppet featured in Robert Askins' play "Hand to God." He is operated by Jason, a shy...

Character Theater Broadway Hand Puppet

8.3 Great

9

Little Amal

Little Amal is a 3.5-metre-tall puppet depicting a Syrian refugee child, created by the Handspring Puppet Company. First...

Performance Theater Contemporary Large Street Puppet

8.3 Great

10

Divadlo Minor (Czech)

Divadlo Minor is a Prague theatre for children and young people whose present building on Vodickova Street opened in Dec...

Touring Czech Children Prague

8.3 Great

11

Guignol

Guignol is the main character in a form of puppet theater originating from Lyon, France, created by Laurent Mourguet aro...

French Theater Traditional Hand Puppet

7.7 Good

12

Hurvínek

Hurvínek is a Czech marionette character created by puppeteer Josef Skupa in 1926 in the city of Plzeň. Originally conce...

Theater Traditional Czech Marionette

7.7 Good

13

Karagöz

Karagöz is the central character and namesake of a traditional Turkish shadow puppet theater that originated in the Otto...

Theater Traditional Satirical Turkish

7.5 Good

14

Polichinelle

Polichinelle is the French form of Pulcinella, the masked figure of the Italian commedia dell'arte. Traditionally shown...

French Theater Traditional Hand Puppet

7.3 Good

15

Hacivat

Hacivat is one of the two central figures in Karagöz, the traditional Turkish shadow-puppet theater, where he serves as...

Theater Traditional Turkish Foil

7.2 Good

16

Gnafron

Gnafron is a companion of Guignol in the traditional puppet theatre of Lyon, France. He is commonly portrayed as a cobbl...

French Theater Traditional Hand Puppet

6.8 Fair

17

Don Cristóbal

Don Cristóbal is a traditional Spanish glove-puppet character related to the rough comic figures found in European popul...

Theater Spanish Traditional Andalusian

6.5 Fair

18

Kasperle

Kasperle is a traditional character from German-language puppet theatre, related to the broader European family of comic...

Theater Traditional Hand Puppet Jester

6.4 Fair

19

Jan Klaassen

Jan Klaassen is a traditional Dutch puppet-theatre character related to the Italian Pulcinella and to other European com...

Theater Traditional Dutch Clown

6.3 Fair

20

Mánička

Mánička is a Czech marionette character associated with the puppet theatre tradition created by Josef Skupa. She was int...

Theater Traditional Czech Marionette

6.2 Fair