Frack Off! A Puppet Play

December 15, 2025 at 3:04 pm Leave a comment

Frack Off! A Puppet Play, with Michael D. Dinwiddie, (New York: Barnes & Noble, 2025).

Frack Off! unfolds amid one of the most volatile moments in recent American politics, the 2016 Trump campaign, when disbelief, exhilaration, outrage, and amusement collided. As the MAGA movement surged and public debate turned electric, the nation seemed to teeter between spectacle and seriousness.

Instead of adding to the digital noise, Peder Anker and Michael D. Dinwiddie turn back to an older medium: European puppet theatre. Here, the devil scheme, dogs speak blunt truths, and stereotypes shrink to wooden likenesses we can finally see clearly enough to laugh at. Blending satire, tradition, and contemporary anxiety, Frack Off! offers a puppet play for our troubled, uncertain times.

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