AP reports that "puppet master" Evgenios Spatharis has died: http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/entertainment/2009/05/10/D983JNNO1_eu_greece_obit_evgenios_spatharis/index.html I believe that the style of puppetry that Spatharis practiced is the subject of the chapter "Karaghiosis: The Laic Hero" in /Prospero's Cell/. Grove