Malmö Dockteater, Sweden's only puppet theatre for adults, has adapted Jackie Collins's 1968 debut novel *The World Is Full of Married Men* into an explicit puppet production using anatomically modified Barbie and Ken dolls. The show, which uses puppetry to depict the novel's sex scenes rather than shying away from them, is transferring from Malmö and Stockholm to the newly refurbished Yard theatre in east London, performed in Swedish with English subtitles.

The production features a set of 14 dollhouses, with two puppeteers manipulating customised dolls while also performing as life-sized versions of their characters; a videographer livestreams close-up footage of the miniature action onto a large screen, making the mechanics of puppeteering fully visible to the audience. Director Erik Holmström said he wanted to create a show that makes audiences "secretly" aroused, arguing that puppets allow sex to be portrayed on stage in ways that would feel embarrassing or shocking with human actors. Founded in a Malmö basement in 2015, the company has previously staged unconventional works including a robot-and-dinosaur existentialist piece and a toilet-roll-tube homage to Dante's Inferno.