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What we call “Wayang” is puppet made of leather of wood, representing a character in the Mahabrata of Ramayana stories. However, the can also mean yhe play itselt. Plays using the flat leather puppets called “ wayang Kulit” are popular only in central java and east java. Meanwhile, the plays using three dimensional wooden puppets or “Wayang Golek” are characteristic of west java.

The leather puppets are made to perform against a screen this wgite cloth serves as the shadows a screen . the on-lookers who watch the performance from the other side of the clith can see only the sadows or silhouettes of the figures. In fact, the term “wayang” literally means “shadow”.

Traditionally and even nowadays a”wayang” performance lasts the whole nignts, from about nine in the evening until dawn. A single puppeteer called the “ dalang” who serves as the operator, narrator and performer altogether performs it. Literally,” dalang” mean “mastermind”, that is one who arranges and directs an operation from “behind the screen”

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