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‘Star Wars’ Becomes A Malay Shadow Play

THEATRE Posted: July 9, 2014 12:41 am

The art of shadow puppetry may be thriving in Bali and Java, but the Malaysian version has been steadily losing ground to films and video games. So a video game creator and an old master puppeteer decided that George Lucas’s sci-fi saga is as epic a myth as the Ramayana – and that Luke, Leia and Darth Vader are more audience-friendly than Rama, Sita and Ravana. (includes video)

THEATRE Published: 07.03.14

Read the story in The Wall Street Journal Published: 07.03.14

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