With a bit of rehearsal, students are ready to help their puppets act out amazing stories. These puppets are a simplified version of the traditional flat-carved Wayang Klitik rod puppets of Indonesia.
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Rod puppetry is a form of puppetry that originated in Asia long ago. In the 1800s European colonizers and merchants took samples back home, and then European puppeteers picked up on the idea. These figures are built on a central control rod, and manipulated from below. The arms, and sometimes the legs, can be moved with separate rods.
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Working together in small groups students plan their stories to be performed and create simple but wonderfully effective 2 dimensional figures, scenery and props, using readily available materials, to be manipulated behind a lit fabric or paper screen in visually magical presentations.
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A World of Puppetry is both an introduction to the intriguing diversity of puppetry traditions around the world, and a demonstration of simple puppet making techniques. The presentation appeals to students’ imaginations and sense of wonder, as well as giving their teachers a solid technical basis with which to inspire creativity in follow-up classroom activities in this interdisciplinary art form.
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