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A fairy-tale ballet, a festival of Indian film, and much more all make this week's list of best bets.

The director of the puppetry institute at UConn, John Bell, will talk about his experiences performing a political pageant in Turkey last fall at the first in this year's series of puppetry forums Wednesday at 7 p.m.

It begins with a painted door labeled 'Here,' and a giant groaning ear spitting out the names of current conflict hotspots. For the next hour and a half, the iconic Bread and Puppet Theater combines spoken word, movement, music, banners -- and, of course, puppets -- in an evening of powerful, engaging, thought-provoking theater.