Traditional glove puppets from the Beng Geok Hong Potehi troupe in Penang. While facial features and hairstyles indicate the role types and age of each puppet, the colours and designs of the costumes, ...

Puppets come in all shapes and sizes and are indispensable in most settings. Early years professionals put their hands up and give their verdicts on the following selection to Sue Hubberstey. The ...

When a little and unanimated puppet enthral the audience with its squeaky voice and lively gestures, the person who puts life into this being is worth a look at. At an event organised by the ...

While the epic Ramakien is told through nang talung, the art of shadow puppetry from southern Thailand, a shadow puppet from Hamburg, Germany, will portray a child waking up in the middle of the night ...

Full disclosure: I’ve never been a fan of puppets or puppetry. It was a surprise, then, that Shadows, Strings and Other Things, the Museum of Anthropology’s exhibition of puppets from Asia, Europe, ...

A puppeteer can give an inanimate object an intense, slightly unreal life, embodied in a form which is sort of human but not quite, giving the audience a quality of attachment.(Francois Nascimbeni/AFP ...