Wayang Purwa ( Leather Puppet Purwa )

As according to the name, made shadow play from hide (buffalo, cow or goat). shadow play is worn to demonstrate story from babad purwa that is mahabarata and ramayana, therefore called also leather puppet purwa.
Up to now skin puppetplays besides to be also be one part of the custom ceremonies like: clean village, ngruwat and others.
To stage skin puppetplays in its entirety wanted approximately as much as 18 supporters. one person as mastermind, 2 person as waranggana, and 15 person as penabuh gamelan tevens wiraswara.
Average show in one evening 7 until 8 clocks, begin from clock 21.00 until clock 05.00 morning. when done in the day time show usually begun from clock 09.00 up to clock 16.00.
puppetplays place is configuringed by using stage concept has abstract. stage arena consists of sail shaped white cloth and as tool tehnis at under it put banana stick to implant leather puppet.
in the theatre of shadow play, scene total in one lakon can not. this scene total will vary based on lakon that demonstrated or depending the mastermind.
As before play, tetabuhan there is no the connection with main story, so has only as atmosphere warmer or messenger to step into to show actually.
As guide in will present skin puppetplays usually a mastermind will use pakem puppetry shaped puppetry book.
But there also mastermind that use note from old masterminds the erudition is got via breed. bevertheless, a mastermind is given to chance also to berimprovisasi, because pakem puppetry actually only full main story kernel.
To be more bring to life atmosphere and make to show to be more interesting, improvisation with this mastermind creativity holds part vitally. face makeup colour in has symbolic meaning, but there is no general rule here.
Red makeup colour for for example face, a large part show angry rude character, but figure setyaki that has high colour makeup colour not angry rude figure. so leather puppet character is not determined by face makeup colour, but also determined by element other, like form for example (pattem) itself leather puppet.
figure arjuna, both for has black face colour also yellow, Permanent arjuna with sifat-sifat that we have known. face colour difference likes this just for distinguish space and the appearance time. arjuna with yellow face colour mempentaskan for scene in kraton, while arjuna with black face colour is showing that he on the ro. such also the things of with figure gatotkaca, kresna, werkudara and others.
This leather puppet face colour difference will not be known by onlooker that see to show from hind sail.
Light facilities that worn in the theatre of shadow play from formerly up to now many experience change as according to technology development. in the form of the original light facilities that worn in skin puppetplays blencong, then round into soil oil lamp (keceran), petromak, now a lot is using electric light.