Puppet Theater

On Tuesday I took Kai Wei to see a puppet troupe from Taiwan perform with hand puppets. The show was really neat. They used traditional hand puppets for their first show, which was based on the traditional 15th century tales of the Monkey King. The second show they used puppets about twice as large as the traditional puppets and the story (which included a lot of Kung Fu and sword fighting) was a story they had written. Kai Wei really enjoyed himself. It took some coaxing to get him into the group photo with the master puppeteer at the end, but he finally went up and was happy to have his program autographed.



He bought a puppet for himself afterwards and he and Daniel had fun today and yesterday making puppet shows using his new puppet (Guang Gong- he's the one with the red face) and the 2 that I brought back from Taiwan last summer. Here are some snippets from their shows.