Kayfabe, 5 March | Event in Durham | AllEvents

Kayfabe

Duke Arts

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Thu, 05 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm

1 hour

The Fruit

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Date & Location

Thu, 05 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm to 08:30 pm (EST)

The Fruit

305 S. Dillard St, Durham, North Carolina, United States

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About the event

Kayfabe
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.

Event URL: https://arts.duke.edu/events/kayfabe/


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Kayfabe, 5 March | Event in Durham | AllEvents
Kayfabe
Thu, 05 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm