Mandalay Marionettes Theatre, Myanmar (Burma)
The Mandalay Marionettes Theatre opened in 1986 by two female founders, Ma Ma Naing and Naing Yee Mar and since then hour-long performances are given in a small theatre. Five traditional musicians sit on the floor before a small stage. They play drums and the Hneh, a kind of oboe. The show starts with a musical prelude, including a performance on the Saung, a traditional harp with a boat-shaped hollow base and sixteen strings. This is followed by puppeteer performances: a medium, paying respect to the guardian spirits (The Nats or good spirits) of the area by offering coconut and bananas; Zaw-Gyi, a demigod, an alchemist clad in red, full of vigour, who lives in the forest, carrying a magic stick, he dances about and does acrobatics and he even sits on his magic stick; this is followed by an old bachelor and an old spinster performing a humorous romance dance to the sound of the four musicians. It is said the puppets could make human dancers so envious, that there emerged a form of marionette dance created by human beings themselves. The girl dances, pretending she is controlled by the puppeteer. This is followed by a Prince, back from this studies, bringing his love to the palace to present her to his parents. Two clowns, who make jokes, accompany them to entertain when they are tired. This is performed by the best puppeteers and is the climax of the performance.
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Video with images of a show at the Mandalay Marionettes Theatre in Myanmar.
The marionette theatre or yokthe pwe originated at Bagan in the eleventh century. In this period it was not allowed for men and women to act together on stage. Hence marionettes replaced real actors and actresses. Since then the popularity of marionette shows had its ups and downs. In the period of the Third Burmese Kingdom it was very popular at the royal court. At present it has lost much of it glory.
The wooden marionettes are about seventy centimetres long. It requires great skill to play a marionette. Some of the marionettes have sixty strings to move every part of the body. In a performance appear many persons including a king, an astrologer, a nat, a hermit and a sorcerer.
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