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Our Puppet Plays
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Unmissable hero of Chinese popular culture, the White Monkey, Sun Wu Kong, king of the monkeys, is a disreputable character.
Faithful to the work of Homer, Voyages d'Ulysse stages all the characters of the Odyssey, very freely inspired by the codes of the puppets of Taiwan.
The genius of the Thousand and One Nights storytellers is to have melted fate on the young Aladdin who asked nothing of anyone and to introduce at the same time as the good, the evil in the person of the magician.
The bay lion with crows, the learned dog is neurasthenic, the horse rushes in the shafts and the director is depressed.
History of puppetry in China
In China, puppets and opera have always been very close. The tradition of hand puppets originates from Fu Jian, it dates back to the 16th century when satirical pieces criticizing the eunuch Wei Zhongxian (1527) appeared. Originally rudimentary, it has become over the centuries a style of Chinese opera in miniature with the peculiarities inherent in this genre:
complete show with songs and acrobatics where dramas and comedies mingle ...
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