Indonesian Shadow play - Wayang Kulit - Prabu Maesasura

Indonesian Puppets - Shadow play - Shadow Puppet Theater - Prabu Maesasura

- The wayang is a Javanese word for particular kinds of theatre. Performances of shadow puppet theatre are accompanied by a gamelan orchestra in Java, and by gender wayang in Bali.
- Shadow play or also known as shadow puppetry is an ancient form of storytelling and entertainment which uses flat articulated figures (shadow puppets) to create the impression of moving humans and other three-dimensional objects.
- Wayang kulit, or shadow puppets, are without a doubt the best known of the Indonesian wayang. Kulit means skin, and refers to the leather construction of the puppets that are carefully chiselled with very fine tools and supported with carefully shaped buffalo horn handles and control rods.
- This is an antic puppets, not a reproduction.