UNDER the night sky at Dataran Merdeka and from behind an illuminated sheet, a shadow puppet performance captivates the ...

Mesmerising: Pak Cu taking his audience on a journey of rich storytelling. One of my favourite Muzium Negara exhibits as a child was the flat-as-pancakes wayang kulit puppets depicting dramatic ...

Visitors viewing some of the wayang kulit pieces crafted by the team at Fusion Wayang Kulit gallery in GMBB in Kuala Lumpur. CONCERNS over the declining popularity of wayang kulit, Malaysia’s ...

Wayang Women, a multinational wayang kulit troupe with members from Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar and the Philippines, is using shadow puppetry to tell stories from a female perspective — ...

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, ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Young apprentice: In Javanese, the word wayang means, “shadow” and kulit, “leather.” Before a piece of “leather” is turned into a ...

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Wayang Kulit, an Indonesian form of shadow puppetry, holds the audience’s attention with riveting storylines executed masterfully by the dhalang, or puppeteer. The puppets are made of buffalo hide and ...

A special one-hour Javanese wayang kulit for families and children. Wayang kulit is the shadow-puppet theater of Indonesia. Wayang means "theater" and kulit means "skin," which refers to the leather ...

conservative Wahhabist religious preacher, Khalid Basalamah has sparked controversy after a statement he made a couple of years ago recently went viral. He made the remarks during a ...