Bringing Thai String Puppets To Life

Once upon a time, recently has a one young group to not knowing about it string puppet came together to do what they love, that is the string puppet of Thai. Do you know than a string puppet is a beautiful and have a life on the stage. How the string puppet these have a life up?

We started from zero isn’t knowledge about how to control or made a string puppet, but we know we fall in love this string puppet very much. We find studies about string puppet from the Internet, because in our country not have a book about this. We create a string puppet with some good ways some mistake but mostly wrong. But we are unflinching until one day we discovered how to create a string puppet of ourselves.

When the beginning to be a create string puppet, we made a British controls style, because its suit with our string puppet to can stand and bend to. Later we extend the controls back for pull buttocks and hips the string puppet standing to look like Thai people usually bend forward and can to salute (to raise the hands pressed together as a sign of respect). Now we have adapted to pull the legs behind so that the string puppet can fly, because the Thai fairy tale have a characters are fantasy.

How to build our string puppet, we have tried various forms from clay molding paste, papier-mâché and cast resin and to present us have enough money to buy the wood lathe. We began made string puppet from wood seriously this set to see in the picture. What we are proud is to create string puppets that have the Thai identity with the way you think and how to create of ours.

However Thai people, some people say our string puppet not pretty elegant and look at poor. But we are proud that build them with our own hands. A string puppet was representing the expression of thought intended to communicate with our audiences of all ages, through content that is good intended to society until the day we are five years old with love and commitment with all our string puppets.

written by C.Piewnam

Tags: Thailand, marionette, puppet, semathai, string puppet

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Comment by C.Piewnam on July 26, 2010 at 4:28am: Thank you so much Joan.

Comment by Joan Schirle on July 26, 2010 at 3:46am: Your puppets are really beautiful. I am sending your link to friends who curate the House of Masks & Puppets in Mas, Bali, Indonesia. Their museum would love to see your puppets, I'm sure!

Comment by Marka Smith on July 8, 2010 at 12:35am: These are beautiful and magical. We fly in our dreams which is why puppets must be able to fly too!. What fairy tales do they tell?

Comment by Annie Stanfield-Hagert on July 6, 2010 at 6:00am: This is wonderful and clever! Please keep up your good work. One time in Bangkok, around 1998, a German puppeteer came to the Goethe Institute off of Silom Road and did an all day workshop on puppets. We made a mangosteen become a puppet! We tried to make a puppet that could do that rahm whong. I hope to return to Thailand someday and see your work. I am going to tell my friend who is a puppeteer in Brooklyn about your work.
Annie

Comment by C.Piewnam on June 25, 2010 at 3:53am: Hi, Nice to know you, thank you for your comment. Two year ago, have a string puppet traditional from Sri Lanka which a history longer than 100 years. They’re to visit and talk to us for exchange about concept and the traditional culture to contemporary existence with the Current. They manipulate a puppet culture inherited from generation to generation. It is the same heritage in his family. When the time change, the start of the modern culture, children and youth see traditional cultures are seen as something outdated. They have game computer or animation movie to watch. So puppet Arts Theatre has been overlooked or forgotten by new generations. How do the puppet art will remain the contemporary? You can exchange idea with us. We are very glad and hope to hear you soon. Thank you from our heart.

Comment by arran towers on June 24, 2010 at 7:35pm: hi, the images are beautiful and your puppets are stunning. i use traditional north indian string puppets at present, and am starting the long path to creating my own puppet characters, but its hard! great to hear of a group making such advances. I'd like to learn more.....