Cross-posted at To Argentina and Beyond

When you teach in Thailand, you are required by Thai Law to complete a Thai Teaching Certificate. We are completing modules every 5-6 weeks and this week’s module was about Thai Culture through Art, Dance, Music and Drama. Part of the module included a wonderful performance by the Joe Louie Puppet Theatre. This was a truely enjoyable performance. I would highly recommend you go see the Joe Louie Puppet Theatre if you are visiting Bangkok.

The following slide shows don’t really do the performance the justice it deserves. However, I was pleased to see how well the shadows came out in the photographs I took (considering all the trouble I’ve been having with my camera lately).

If you want to hear the music that accompanies each slide show please click on the speaker in the top left hand corner.

Note:  I had so much trouble trying to embed the slide show in edublogs that I decided to just link the images to my travel blog where the slide shows were much easier to embed.

The first slideshow is photos documenting the meeting the puppets and learning about how they move and how gestures without words are made.

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Slideshow #2 is the actual story of how Hanuman, the very cheeky monkey god wins the love of the very beautiful mermaid Supamatcha. Together they have a son who resembles his father but also has the tail of his mother.

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Sideshow #3 is the same story but captured in the shadows.

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