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His hero, mickey sabbath, is a grotesque egotist whose career as a puppeteer is an analogue of his selfabsorbed, controlfreak nature. Mickey sabbath a 64 year old washed out puppeteer, serial adulterer, high priest of debauchery is having a conversation with drenka the woman with whom he has been having an affair for the past years. Kitaj is an unproductive, outofwork, former puppeteer with a strong. Sabbaths theater finds roth on top form, challenging and sometimes reactionary, probing the angst of a generation.
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