The most popular stories depicted are excerpts from the Mahabarata and the Ramayana, epic poems composed in India thousands of years ago. Wayang kulit are made from stiff thick water buffalo leather.

Wayang Kulit, an Indonesian form of shadow puppetry, holds the audience’s attention with riveting storylines executed masterfully by the dhalang, or puppeteer. The puppets are made of buffalo hide and ...

The stories often derive from the Hindu epics Ramayana and Mahabharata ... the story while manipulating the puppets behind a lit screen. Indonesia’s Wayang Kulit must be a ‘true art heritage ...

So, with this animatronic shadow puppet show ... at a performance at a mall in Penang island. Wayang usually depicts epic Hindu tales such as the Ramayana in hours-long theatrical and musical ...