“Ronnie Burkett is the first to see the potential absurdity in ‘a grown man who spends his nights jiggling jointed dolls’. Recognising not just the theatre’s but most of the western world’s antipathy for puppets, he even admits: ‘It’s ridiculous – I wouldn’t pay to see it.’ None the less, his Memory Dress Trilogy has won him a reputation as one of the great theatre artists of the world.”