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“Punch is interesting. Not always likeable. Sometimes extremely irritating and often hard to watch. But he is truly ancient, and in some ways he is the unofficial and unwilling God of all puppets. He is a configuration of nose and chin. Ours doesn’t even have a hump or speak with a swazzle voice, but he is still unmistakable. I didn’t pick him because I liked him. In fact I picked him because I wanted to do a show about puppeteers who didn’t really like puppets.”

— Julian Crouch in ‘Voices: Julian Crouch’