At the beginning of its activity, the Puppet Theater of Zadar is imitating the acting theater and creating a kind of folk or children's theater. The Puppet Theater of Zadar was founded on November 1, 1951. The founder and director of the theater is Bruno Paitoni, and the permanent director is Mile Gatara, the actor of the National Theater, which is entrusted with artistic work and training. The puppet theater is one of the theatrical forms, such as drama, ballet, opera or pantomime. In other theatrical forms, man is the creator and material of the stage character. In the puppet theater, the creator of the stage character is an actor, or an animator, and his voice and doll are the material of a stage character. Acting theater or drama theater is the closest to the puppet theater. They share a theater space (a stage with decorations and a playground), an actor, a puppet voice and numerous technical devices, especially light and sound. Puppets are not only partners in the child's game, or perhaps the plastic material for partners in the game, but also disproportionate characters and movements, by which they, by disputing disproportionately individual parts of the body or individual social characteristics, perform a global analysis of the phenomena around them to better understand them , and through them to better understand themselves and their relationship with the world around them. In this paper we examined the student reception of the theater play when they were prepared for them and published their opinion about the performances in which live actors acted. We examined how actors transmitted the message of the show and how they acted on the students themselves.