Puppet Cupak (Wayang Cupak)
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Puppet cupak including Balinese shadow puppets are very rare, is a leather puppet show acting out stories Grantang quarts which tells the life journey of two sons of Lord Brahma a very different character. The form of this puppet show is not much different from other Balinese shadow play just the main characters limited to cupak and Grantang, Men Bekung and her husband Pan Bekung, Giant Benaru, Galuh Daha, King Gobagwesi and so forth.
Quarts puppet show basically still stick to the pattern and structure of the staging of a traditional Balinese shadow puppets (Puppet Parwa). Puppet performance measures of the players involved around 12 people consisting of:
- 1 person mastermind
- 2 people assistant puppeteer
- 9 people player of gamelan batel gender puppet.
Among the usual play-act puppet performances sung in quarts, is:
- Death of Benaru Giant
- Cupak Dadi Ratu
- Cupak Nyuti of Arts (Cupak into heaven)
The particular measures of this puppet show was on the art of using sound the vowel song-song of macapat (ginada), and viewing figures Bondres very highlighted. Puppet cupak very popular in Tabanan regency.
