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    STUDIA DRAMATICA - Issue no. 1 / 2010  
         
  Article:   PUPPET THEATRE: THE BEGINNINGS: WAYANG KULIT AND THE JAVANESE LEGACY - NATURAL CONTEXT.

Authors:  ANCA DOCZI. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  How history – when history is just a high story - will describe the origins of Puppet Theatre? Analitical! Exactly! Dolls and mouth moving masks where used in rituals all over Asia, Africa, Australia. They were animated by strings or sticks....Great! So this will explain for real the origis of Theatre? Probably yes. As some arheologists and historians could claim that puppets were predceding actors. But this answer for our modern spirit is not good enough, even if we talk about Theatre or Puppet Theatre. (Yes, the question of „what was first?” will always come in our mind ) Why? Because we lost the meaning of „ritual”, our digital thinking can not respond positive to this word. Do we need a historical explanation over the origins of theatre or do we covet to understand what real needs made humans create theatre...not as a ritual but as an animated story to watch after sun will go down? An animated story with a great apparence of life that could only be seen but not touched. The story of Wu Han and Li Wang is a relevant example of how humans desire to bring back to life their beloved ones, how they accept to see only their gost if they can not see tham in flash and blood; i would go further and i woud say that humans only belive when thay see things, and theatre offered tham the eyes to see history moving, the high story evolving in front of tham.

Keywords: Theatre, puppetry, China
  
         
     
         
         
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