Indonesia's puppet: Leather Puppet

As the name implies, shadow puppets are made from animal skin (buffalo, cow or goat). Shadow puppets are used to demonstrate the play is the play of the Chronicle Purwa Mahabharata and the Ramayana, is therefore also called Wayang puppet show Purwa.Sampai now besides a means of entertainment is also one part of traditional ceremonies such as: clean the village, and other ngruwat so on. To perform a puppet show in full is required by about 18 supporters. One person as a puppeteer, 2 people as waranggana or sinden, and 15 people as gamelan wiraswara concurrently.

"Gunungan"

Place puppet show performances arranged by using an abstract concept. Arena stage consists of a screen of white cloth as a means of technical and placed beneath banana stem to stick puppets. In the puppet show, the number of scenes in a play can not be determined. The number of these scenes will vary based on the play that was shown or hanging behind it.

As the pre-spectacle is tetabuhan that has nothing to do with the main story, so just be as heated atmosphere or introductory course to get into the actual show. As a guideline in presenting the puppet show is usually a puppeteer would use a standard form of puppetry puppetry books. But there is also the mastermind who uses records from the old puppeteers whose knowledge is acquired through heredity. Nevertheless, a puppeteer also given the opportunity to improvise, because the grip of puppetry is actually only contains the core of the story subject.

Ki Anon Suroto

To further liven things and make the show more interesting, improvisation and creative mastermind behind this very important role. Color makeup in leather puppets have symbolic meaning, but there is no general rule here. The color red makeup for the face for example, most of the exhibits rage, but the figures Setyaki that have the color red is not a character make-up rage. So the puppet character is not determined by the color of makeup, but also determined by other elements, such as shape (patron) puppet itself.

Arjuna figures, both of which have a black face and yellow colors, is still Arjuna with properties that we already know. Face color difference like this only to distinguish the appearance of space and time. Arjuna with the color yellow face for a scene staged in the palace, while Arjuna with the color black face showed that he was on his way. Similarly, figures Gatotkaca, Krishna, Werkudara and others. This puppet face the color difference will not be known by the audience who saw the show from behind the screen.

Petruk and Gareng

Lighting equipment used in a puppet show from the past until now has undergone many changes according to technological developments. In the original form of lighting equipment used in the puppet show is blencong, then evolved into a kerosene lamp (keceran), petromak, many now use electric lights.