Wordless tales require physically expressive actors … or, in the case of “Crane & Turtle: Images of China,” expressive puppets. In the Northwest Puppet Center’s newest show, the highlight is a ...

The head is carved from wood. Mechanisms in the hollow head move the eyes and mouth. The main rod, made either of wood or bamboo, runs through the neck to the head, and the length varies. The hand ...

Flesh or fluff, human or puppet? From April 18–20, Strings Attached, an original musical written by fourth-year Jefferson Lind, composed by fourth-years Adrian Lo and Althea Li, and co-directed by ...

In the play, a puppet starts to offer a cigarette to a friend but his cough gets the better of him, which makes his voice a bit funny-sounding — eliciting peals of laughter from a roomful of a hundred ...

HO CHI MINH CITY: Every Sunday a small room in an apartment building in Ho Chi Minh (HCM) City transforms itself into a lively stage where children learn to give life to strings and puppets. When we ...

No truly definitive conclusions have yet been reached on the origin and evolution of Chinese puppetry. However, pottery figurines used in place of slaves as burial objects have been discovered at ...