THE Kulit Wayang Official Movie Launch, Trailer Premiere and Press Conference was held at the Kulit Wayang Cultural Festival @ KL Base in Sungai Besi recently. The two-day festival was part of the ...

Dalang Ki Purbo Asmoro, one of Indonesia’s most celebrated wayang kulit puppeteers, is sitting cross-legged on a rattan mat between a flickering lamp and a wide sheet of linen. With both hands he ...

PETALING JAYA: The venerable wayang kulit (shadow play) is going back to the future in the hands of contemporary visual artist Tintoy Chuo, who has melded pop culture icons with an ancient art form.

Most wayang kulit performances are in the Kelantanese dialect, or Kecek Kelate, although there is also wayang kulit from other states, such as Johor, Kedah and Perlis.

Across the region, Indonesia’s Wayang Kulit Purwa often explores Javanese Hindu epics, while Thailand’s Nang Talung and Nang Yai emphasise intricate puppet designs and Buddhist narratives.

One wayang character is available for a starting price of Rp 500,000 (US$35) until Rp 3 million.A set of wayang Mahabharata and Ramayana usually consist of 200 characters, of which Kepuhsari ...

SINGAPORE — The traditional art of wayang kulit, or puppet shadow play, will take centre stage at tomorrow’s annual Aliwal Arts Night Crawl. This year’s Rasa Wayang edition, however, will ...

Wayang kulit has not always had such a positive reception in Kelantan. In 1990, the Islamist Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, or PAS, was elected to the state government and outlawed wayang kulit, ...

Kulit Wayang | Trailer 1. Posted: 21 March 2025 | Last updated: 21 March 2025. Once a famed shadow puppet master, Ramlee now lives as a recluse but the arrival of a young woman awakens old demons ...

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 ...

Protests against the perceived assault on wayang kulit (traditional shadow puppetry) are the manifestation of continuing fear about the dissemination of ideologies promoting global Islam.