In the shows Marion made the puppet Tight Rope Walker who walked an imaginary tightrope very close to the fire which they still used for lighting. She also made the puppet Fountain that spoke up prophecies of all kinds. She made the puppet Suffragettes who did small scenes of rebellion using acid and protest, she enacted Skarbek of the haunted coal mines, she made Talking Heads, whose small speeches made Tigar laugh and cry, she made puppets of Karl Marx and Adam Smith whose repeated tirades and arguments upset him too. She told the story of Pinocchio many times also, the light of the flames lighting everything soft and flickering, and the puppet’s nose growing longer always with his lies.

Rats took over one part of the city. The waters came and went at irregular intervals. Nothing made much sense. The government collapsed or got locked in weeks of the breakdown talks for a 2nd or 3rd time. Tigar was killed by Security Patrols one day and after that Marion was grieving forever, wracked in anger, then even more concentrated on the Puppet Shows. He was her love, she said, and he was gone.

Things she used as puppets and/or the materials from which she made them: Rubber Gloves, Bottled Cleaning Products, A Wooden Spoon, Plastic Glasses, Uneatable Potatoes, Animal Bones Paint Brush, Old Hand Grenade, Broken Sex Toy, Plastic Sheeting, Doll Limbs, Petrol Rags, Small Box, A Molotov Cocktail, Burned Ornament, Eifel Tower Ornament, Toy Car, Action Figure ‘Soldier’, Broken Sunglasses, Lipstick, Balloon, Boxed Matches, Plastic Heart, Tinned Fruit, Tennis Ball, Broken Clock, Cotton Wool, Finger Bone, Vacuum Cleaner, Dead Mouse, Toy Aeroplane, Trumpet, Bleach, Custard Powder, Uneatable Cucumber, Outdated Medicine, Fragments of Circuit Board, Telescope, Snow Globe, Pencil, Pepper Spray, Rape Alarm, Rubber Doll, Wooden Door Stops, Several Stones in Variety of Sizes, House Brick, Cinder Blocks, Condom Filled with Mud, Wire Brush, Plastic Swan, Anatomical Drawing, Ball of String, Bottle of Glue, Wire Wool, Broken Mirror (Shard), Lighter, Crushed Beer Can, Pair of Socks, Modelling Clay, Dog Biscuits, Rope, Action Figure (Headless), Action Figure (Torso Only), Box Of Matches, Clothes Peg, Three Syringes. Knotted Ribbon, Ventolin Inhaler, Half Bag of Inedible Flour, Playing Cards, Wall Nuts, Golf Balls, Box of Drawing Pins, Pin Cushion, String of Pearls, Electric Razor, Modem Adaptor, Miniature Whisky Bottle (Empty), Miniature Poison Bottle (Full), Foam Remnants, Cardboard Remnants, Polystyrene Packaging, Compass, Spirit Level, Cotton Reel, More Filled Condoms, More Pebbles, Shaving Foam, Skull of a Bird, Pile of Coins (Without Value), Torn Paper, Screwed Newspaper, Ink Bottle, Printer Cartridge (Not Functional), Spare Parts from a Refrigerator, Obsolete Phone Charger, Paint Bottle, Inedible Chocolate Bar, Light Blub, Small light bulb, Plastic Comb, Hair Products, Sticks, Toothbrush, Small Vase and Cracked Cup.