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Punch and Judy

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Punch and Judy

Opera in one act by Harrison Birtwistle (libretto by Stephen Pruslin), produced at Aldeburgh on 8 June 1968, and conducted by Atherton. A revised version was produced in London on 3 March 1970. The plot follows the murderous Punch, who stabs Judy and sets out on a quest for Pretty Polly, eventually winning her favour after hanging Jack Kh.
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He ground his teeth at the crying balloons; he cursed the moving pictures; and, though he would drink whenever asked, he scorned Punch and Judy, and was for licking the tintype men as they came.
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She exaggerated the Punch and Judy aspect of life, and spoke of mankind as puppets, whom an invisible showman twitches into love and war.
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Lord Lundie strove to disembarrass himself of his accoutrements much as an ill-trained Punch and Judy dog tries to escape backwards through his frilled collar.
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