The tour de force, though, is the enormous crocodile from Roald Dahl's "Dirty Beasts," who has "six juicy children for his lunch" and requires several cast members to operate him.
Listen to extracts from Dirty Beasts for inspiration to create your own wiggly creature puppets on 29 December (£2, five and over) or colour in your own bookmark on 30 December (free, all ages).
Despite appearances of tolerance, it's best not to offend the Muslim Malays with scanty dress, dirty language or dragging along your favourite dog (branded a foul beast in the Koran).
This collaboration with Japanese vocalist Hanayo is about as grinding as electroclash got — a dirty churning beast of a tune that seems to exist in a vacuum, sucking all the air out of the room, leaving the listener panting with delight.
Inform them how dirty it is, how colonies of beasts thrive on crumbs under the keys and inside the inner workings of the computer.
They look less human than little monsters, dirty ragged with eyes that will haunt one forever -- eyes of little beasts in the last anguish of death.
Not quite without precedent, it recalls Wild Beasts' more daring moments, as well as the artsy, conceptual Afropop of Dirty Projectors' Rise Above and the heavenly voice and cello of Arthur Russell's World Of Echo.
