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wayang|ˈwɑːjæŋ|
[a. Javanese wajang, wayang.]
1. In Indonesia and Malaysia, a theatrical performance employing puppets or human dancers; spec. a type of Javanese shadow puppet play.
1808Asiatick Res. X. iii. 181 Scenic exhibitions termed ‘Wayang-wayang’, were till lately, very common in the peninsula of Malayu [sic]. 1853Jrnl. Indian Archipelago VII. 271 A very large collection of Wayang figures, cut out of hide. 1881Encycl. Brit. XIII. 604/2 The wayangs or puppet plays, in which grotesque figures of gilded leather are moved by the performer, who recites the appropriate speeches, and as occasion demands plays the part of chorus. 1910[see shadow-play s.v. shadow n. 16]. 1934H. W. Ponder Java Pageant iv. 49 The stories have been immortalized..by the ‘Wayang’, or native theatre, which for countless generations has been so much a part of Javanese life. 1965L. Palmier Indonesia xi. 171 The wayang performance has always had a magic and religious significance. 1973D. May Laughter in Djakarta iv. 71 Tonight he was going..to see a wayang, an old Hindu-Javanese story acted and danced by a famous company from central Java. 1978N. Freeling Night Lords xvi. 72 The wayang dollies depended..upon the skill and suppleness of the manipulator's fingers.
2. With qualifying term (see quot. 1969), as wayang kulit [Javanese kulit skin, leather], the Javanese shadow puppet play.
1893W. B. Worsfold Visit to Java x. 178, I had an opportunity of witnessing..the wayang klitik, in which the puppets are exhibited themselves to the audience instead of being made to project shadows. 1894J. D. Vaughan in N. B. Dennys Descr. Dict. Brit. Malaya 324 In a puppet show the figures are seen and in this their shadows are. The show is called wayang kulit, or leather puppets. 1936G. B. Gardner Keris i. 21 The figures are usually grotesque, of the wayang kulit type. 1965Economist 13 Mar. 1149/3 The traditional Indonesian wayang purwa puppet theatre show, usually performed at night, in which the vague shadows of leather puppets are fuzzily silhouetted on a screen. 1966D. Forbes Heart of Malaya viii. 100 Figures that moved across the frame of the doorway looked like silhouettes in the wayang kulit, the shadow play. 1969A. R. Philpott Dict. Puppetry 277 The precise nature of the performance is distinguished by a qualifying term—e.g. wayang purwa, wayang gedog,..wayang wong—the last being a performance by human actors... The qualifying term may indicate type of puppet or the type of plays. 1976Times 31 Aug. (Malaysia Suppl.) p. iv/4, Both farmers and fishermen are largely confined to their houses during the monsoon season, when some of them cut silhouette puppets from cowhide for the traditional Wayang Kulit shadow play—a long procession of characters, based on the Indian epic The Ramayana. |