Marionette maestro Ronnie Burkett returns to the Cultch with The Daisy Theatre, a show that rotates 40 different characters and is never the same from night to night—so much so that there’s even a “see-it-twice price”. If you’re lucky, you’ll meet Edna Rural of Turnip Corners, a dotty old lady dressed in her Sears housedress; Little Woody Linden, a vaudeville dummy; Esme Massengill, a gloriously faded diva; or Schnitzel, a little guy who wants to be a fairy and who gets bullied.

Expect laughs and a mountain of eccentricity, plot strictures be damned. But get tickets soon, because this show, which runs from Tuesday (December 1) to December 20, always sells out.