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Cengiz Özek (born June 4, 1964) is a Turkish traditional shadow theatre manipulator of Karagöz. [1] He established Istanbul's first annual international puppet festival, Istanbul International Puppet Festival, in 1998, and has organized it every May since then. [2] [3] [4] Özek started performing with a shadow theatre in 1977 at the age of 13.
While shadow play theatre is an Asian invention, hand puppets have a long history in Europe. [11] As European merchant ships sailed in the search of sea routes to India and China, they helped diffuse popular entertainment arts and cultural practices into Europe. Shadow theatre became popular in France, Italy, Britain and Germany by the 17th ...
Articles related to shadow play, an ancient form of storytelling and entertainment which uses flat articulated cut-out figures (shadow puppets) which are held between a source of light and a translucent screen or scrim. The cut-out shapes of the puppets sometimes include translucent color or other types of detailing.
The Spathario Shadow Theatre Museum is a museum in Maroussi, Athens, Greece. It exhibits mostly shadow puppet artifacts and it is named after prominent Greek puppet shadow artist Evgenios Spatharis. It was established in 1991 in the municipality of Maroussi and opened in 1996. [1]
The shadow plays of Cambodia are closely related to and also resemble the shadow plays of Thailand (Nang yai and Nang talung), Indonesia (Wayang and Wayang kulit). In Cambodia, the shadow play is called Nang Sbek Thom, or simply as Sbek Thom (literally "large leather hide"), Sbek Touch ("small leather hide") and Sbek Por ("colored leather hide").
The central theme of the plays is the contrasting interaction between the two main characters. These are perfect foils of each other: in the Turkish version, Karagöz represents the illiterate but straightforward public, whereas Hacivat belongs to the educated class, speaking Ottoman Turkish and using a poetical and literary language.
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The Wild Party is a shadow theater work by Reed, based on the poem by Joseph Moncure March written in 1926.It includes jazz music from Bruce Forman. The poem is about two vaudeville performers, Queenie and Burt, who lead an edgy and decadent life.