Taiwanese Glove puppetry

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Taiwanese Glove puppetry

• Members Ron, Michael, Howard, Lawrence, Herbert

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The History of Glove puppetry

• Glove puppetry is a type of local opera
  using cloth puppets that originated during the
  17th century in Quanzhou or Zhangzhou, in China's
  Fujian province. Glove Puppetry has been
  historically practiced in Quanzhou, Zhongzhou,
  Chaozhou in Guangdong, Taiwan, and other parts of
  southern China.

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• The puppet's head uses wood carved into
  the shape of a hollow human head. The puppets
  head, palms and feet are made of wood, but its
  torso and limbs consist entirely of cloth
  costumes. At the time of the performance, a
  gloved hand enters the puppet's costume and makes
  it perform. In previous years, the puppets used
  in this type of performance strongly resembled
  "cloth sacks," hence the name, which literally
  means "cloth bag opera."

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• Glove Puppetry performances, similar to
  those other types of Chinese opera, are divided
  into a first half and a second half show. During
  the first half, known as the "show platform," the
  audience is shown a demonstration by a master
  puppeteer on the stage. The second half consists
  of the puppet master, the orchestra, and the
  spoken parts.

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• Several key points of a show to be
  appreciated include the dexterity of the master
  puppeteer's manipulation of the puppet, the
  accompaniment of the orchestra, and the poetic
  spoken parts of the voice actors. With few
  exceptions, from traditional Glove Puppetry to
  modern performances, human vocal music and
  operatic singing is rarely heard.

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The end

• Thank you!