by CulturoAdmin | Apr 7, 2024 | Theatre in India
Shadow puppets are silhouettes or cut-out figures manipulated to cast shadows on a screen or surface. This form of puppetry is often performed behind a backlit screen, with the puppeteer manipulating the puppets to create various characters and scenes. Shadow... by CulturoAdmin | Apr 7, 2020 | Theatre in India
Tolubommalata is a 700-years old leather puppetry shadow theatre tradition found in the Telugu speaking areas of South India like Andhra Pradesh and parts of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Very little is known of its form or its practitioners prior to the late 1950s,...