With 483 shadow puppets — not to mention actors, masks and 208 animated backgrounds — “Song of the North” is no bare-bones production. “It is like a Swiss watch backstage,” says Hamid Rahmanian, the ...
Thieves stole a truck filled with hundreds of handmade puppets used in a nationally touring theater show of large-scale shadow puppetry early Monday, leaving the production company empty-handed after ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Hamid Rahmanian has made it his life’s work to share the richness of Iranian culture. “Song of the North,” at the New Victory Theater, is just the ...
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Many of the puppets were still missing, however, after the theft of a U-haul truck in San Francisco holding props for the critically acclaimed Persian epic “Song of the North.” It was unclear if the ...
“Scene of Souls in Hell” (19th century), donkey skin; Shaanxi, China (all images courtesy Museu do Oriente) LISBON — Asian shadow theater is catnip for those with energetic imaginations. Its ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cambodian puppet artists display some of their shadow puppets at the Sovana Phum Theatre which is bringing the curtain down due to ...
Naga, a mythical serpent (late 1700s–early 1800s), West Java (all images © The Trustees of the British Museum, courtesy the British Museum) For centuries, shadow ...