Shadow Puppet Theatre of Malaysia

Beth Osnes is a professor and director of graduate studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder. She has published numerous articles on the traditional performing arts of Southeast Asia.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Preface      Introduction      One: The Shadow Puppet Theatre in Southeast Asia      Two: The Stories of the Malaysian Shadow Puppet Theatre      Three: The Shadow Puppet Theatre in Performance      Four: Five Scripts      Five: Teaching and Performing Malaysian Shadow Puppet Theatre      Afterword: July 2008      Appendix: Puppet Designs Used in Scripts      Chapter Notes      Bibliography      Index

“Demonstrating the skills of a seasoned storyteller, Osnes weaves a heartfelt narrative with scholarly research into the cultural history of Wayang Kulit, attending to the technical details of its performance while observing the communal spirit and traditional values of the art form’s original practitioners”—Theatre Journal.