Asian Theatre Journal

Brown, Ian Jarvis.
Voices of the Puppet Masters: The Wayang Golek Theater of Indonesia (review)
Asian Theatre Journal - Volume 20, Number 1, Spring 2003, pp. 93-95

University of Hawai'i Press

Ian Jarvis Brown - Voices of the Puppet Masters: The Wayang Golek Theater of Indonesia (review) - Asian Theatre Journal 20:1 Asian Theatre Journal 20.1 (2003) 93-95 Voices Of The Puppet Masters: The Wayang Golek Theater Of Indonesia. By Mimi Herbert with Nur S. Rahardjo. The Lontar Foundation, Jakarta, and the University of Hawai'i Press: Honolulu, 2002. 252 pp. Ill. $50 Voices of the puppet masters and others resound from Banten in West Java to Blitar in East Java. Wayang golek is Java-centric in Mimi Herbert's account of this puppet performance tradition with all its diversity of form and multiplicity of the stories told. And there is also the voice of a puppet master from afar, that of American pioneer Kathy Foley, of the University of California at Santa Cruz. There has never been a work of such passion devoted to wayang golek providing not only a wealth of scholarship, but also a rich canvas of extensive pictorial studies allowing the imagination to enter the physical and spiritual world of Javanese puppet traditions. Two principal divisions of wayang...