Alive from Off Center

Punch and Judy Get Divorced (8x2)

Air date: Jun 27, 1992

This edition presents an updated, adult version of the famous seventeenth-century English puppet play about foolish, boastful Punch and his nagging wife, Judy. In this biting live-action interpretation -- which is manipulated and edited to have the look of a cartoon -- two actors play each of the principal characters and music from old Warner Bros. cartoons plays throughout. After an introduction by the clowns, this Punch-and-Judy show highlights the universality of the couple, taking their battle of the sexes from the Garden of Eden to a divorce court.