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INDONESIAN THEATERMr. Carlo Justino J. LunaMalabanias Integrated SchoolAngeles CityMUSICUnit 4 Musical Theater and Festivals of Asia

Indonesian Theater

Shadow Puppet Theater is a well-known Indonesian theater popular not only in their own country but spread in several countries around the world

(in Central Java) is one of the oldest continuous traditions of storytelling in the world which includes the use of puppet materials and background musical accompaniment to make it interesting to the audienceWAYANG KULITIndonesian Theater

Wayang is an Indonesian and Malay word for theater.

When the term is used to refer to kinds of Puppet Theater, sometimes the puppet itself is referred to as wayang.

Kulit means skin and refers to the leather construction of the puppets that are carefully-cut into a very fine tools and supported with carefully-shaped buffalo horn handles and control rods.

The PERFORMANCE

The audience is the most important person in a Wayang Kulit performance.The dalang prepares all the materials used like the cloth and the light for the shadow.The puppet on the right side signifies the good character, on the left hand side, the bad.The open space between them, about 2 meters wide, represents the stage.The PERFORMANCEWayang Kulit

TheDALANG

is the puppeteeris characterized by his being creative, humorous, and flexiblemanipulates the puppets, sings, and taps out signals to the orchestraspeaks the parts of all the charactersDALANGWayang Kulit

The use of voice interchangeably is the main ability of a dalang to give more life to a different character.

The dalang is the chief performer who told a story to the accompaniment of gamelan ensemble.

Wayang Kulit was performed in royal court and widely performed in public on religious occasions

so that knowledge of wayang became widespread among all classes in Java.14

The Music:GAMELAN

is comprised mainly by bronze percussion instruments augmented by other percussion instruments, strings, and a flute.GAMELAN EnsembleWayang Kulit

Saron xylophone of heavy bronze barsGAMELAN EnsembleWayang Kulit

Gender bronze xylophone with resonance chambers beneathGAMELAN EnsembleWayang Kulit

Bonang set of bronze bowlsGAMELAN EnsembleWayang Kulit

Gong and Kempul hanging gongsGAMELAN EnsembleWayang Kulit

Kenong and Ketuk single inverted bronze bowlGAMELAN EnsembleWayang Kulit

Gambang wooden xylophoneGAMELAN EnsembleWayang Kulit

Rebab two-stringed fiddleGAMELAN EnsembleWayang Kulit

Suling fluteGAMELAN EnsembleWayang Kulit

Kendang horizontal drum beat with the fingers on both endsGAMELAN EnsembleWayang Kulit

Tjelempung a zither of thirteen double stringsGAMELAN EnsembleWayang Kulit

SULUK

The dalang sings the mood songs (suluk) at regular intervals during performance.Suluk are never accompanied by the full gamelan ensemble.Often a single instrument accompanies the singer, never more than three or four.SULUKWayang Kulit

How to make Wayang Kulit?

Wayang Kulit

THANKS!Mr. Carlo Justino J. LunaMalabanias Integrated SchoolAngeles CityMUSICUnit 4 Musical Theater and Festivals of Asia