A few days ago, there was a shadow puppet performance in my village for celebrating the village anniversary, With Ki Joko Enom as a puppeteer in this show. He was very grandeur, that every body was opening their eyes widely toward the puppeteer; all of the audiences were astonished of the puppeteer. I could not forget his spectacular performance, grandeur voice and his contemplation in improving the Mahabarata story became more deeply enjoyable. Everybody must intend to watch the marvelous puppeteer performance again on the other chance which kept us stay up all night enjoying puppeteer’s performance. It was still remained in my mind that astonishing puppeteer in building up the puppet play in my village anniversary celebration, which I will never forget all of my life.
Old fashioned and shiny jewelry that puppeteer wore accompany the attractive puppet play. With his traditional exclusive clothes, equipped with dark batik headdress (blangkon), he presented the shadow puppets from the left to the right even sometime crashed them on the middle of the screen; as if he was a driver of a car who could propel anywhere he wants. Shiny golden jewelry that he wore made him became more gorgeous; it seemed like the brightest star among dreary ones on the sky. With his striking apparel, he was skillfully handling the assortment shadow puppets which occupied the giant screen (3x5 meters); he really looked like sovereign in ancient epoch empire.
He told the story with his grandeur voice that drowned us into soulfully Mahabarata tale. It sounds like a thunder which was deafening our ears. It summons the audience to scream respecting the puppeteer. Moreover his fluent Javanese language built up the audiences’ excitement and invited them to get closer. He was never reluctant to shout some sentence to present some part of the story, which sometime shocked the audience; moreover when he shouted the part of dialogue that shows anger to make it more vivid.
Amazing puppeteer improvement in building up the story made the puppet play became more pleasurable. The way the puppeteer improved the original Mahabarata tale with some hilarious jokes made the audience laugh out of loud. Moreover the audience really get flabbergasted while listening to the puppeteer chanting melodious tone of the old region culture song (karawitan) accompanied with traditional Javanese instrumental which gave more impression as if anaesthetized vociferous of the visitors into deep silence.
Marvelous puppeteer amused all of the audience with his best performance, and gets the audiences’ contentment. They intended not to miss the flabbergast puppeteer ever in the next other chance. The miracle of puppeteer’s voice in chanting the song, the ability in improving the old tale became more pleasurable, and the exclusive appearance has been filling up their mind.
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