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Stagings offer artistic ardor, great rewards

Cankerblossom. What's most remarkable about Pig Iron Theatre Company's first foray into the family-theater market is its timing. This was the summer that 3-D entertainment burgeoned in popular culture. So along comes Pig Iron Theatre Company with Cankerblossom, its through-the-looking-glass visit to Flatworld, a 2-D land populated by the extraordinary cardboard puppetry of Beth Nixon (a "coconspirator" of the West Philly theater company Puppet UpRising).

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