The 2016 Yunlin International Puppet Theater Festival will kick off this Saturday at the Agricultural Expo Park in the county''s Huwei District, with six full days of puppet shows across multiple stages. 4 overseas puppet theater groups from Russia, Japan and Hong Kong will join local puppet masters in performing at the annual event.This dancer, one of those set to take the stage at Yunlin’s upcoming International Puppet Theater Festival, is something of a puppet fan-turned cosplayer. Puppet Theater FanI kind of want to combine cosplay and puppet theater to make a new type of performance. At a press conference promoting the event, puppetmaster Huang Chun-hsiung gave the media a taste of his skills in narration.Aside from showcasing the refined talent of Taiwan’s own puppet theater troupes, the six-day long festival will also feature troupes from overseas.Lee Chin-YungYunlin County CommissionerWe’ve invited four international puppet theater troupes from Russia, Hong Kong, and Japan. With them and our own local puppeteers, we’ll have a total of 113 performances. Troupes from local schools are also set to join the many professional puppeteers scheduled to perform at the event, in what will surely be an unmissable week of shows for the nation’s puppet theater fans.
