A 'wayang motekar' (colored traditional shadow puppet performance) play named 'Si Acung di Alam Jelemun' (Acung in the Other World) was held at the Rumentang Siang Art Building in Bandung (14/6).

Two warriors in ancient costumes fight ferociously when suddenly, to the dramatic sound of drums, the red-faced warrior pulls out his sword and beheads his white-faced enemy. This is not a scene from ...

When you think of wayang kulit (shadow puppet performance), you probably imagine a shadow puppet performance telling traditional stories, like tales from the Ramayana and Mahabharata. But in Malaysia, ...

Illya Sumanto’s original puppets of female ghosts for her performance in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in November 2024 (all photos Andrew Nachemson/Hyperallergic) KELANTAN, MALAYSIA — A puppet with flowing ...

An exciting large-scale cinematic shadow puppet performance is coming to the Meridian Arts Centre, and it’s sure to be unlike anything you’ve ever seen before. Directed by Hamid Rahmanian, Song of the ...

This modern animatronic show uses 3D-printed characters controlled by robotics [Ahnaf Hakimi Ahmad, Creator of animatronic shadow puppet] “Most of the teens and youths today lean more towards social ...

Shadow puppetry, also known as "shadow play," is a traditional form of storytelling through the medium of flat articulated, elaborately engraved figures. Manipulating them with silken strings and ...

This shadow puppet is at least 200 years old and is one of the oldest surviving shadow puppets in the world. It represents Bima the hero of the great Hindu epic The Mahabharata. Puppets like this are ...

To create a bedazzling puppet show of light and shadows requires little more than simple equipment, some sleight of hand, and a lot of imagination. At a special workshop, Fantasy Puppet Theatre Works ...

Libby Purves meets actor Brian Cox and singer June Tabor. Coming up at: 21:58 Weather View full schedule Shadow puppet of the character Bima (made seventeenth or eighteenth century), from Java When ...