In Rajasthan, il teatro dei burattini vanta una lunga tradizione. Come in molte culture, narra le storie di Re e Regine, Demoni e Dei, ma anche eroi vicini the traditional culture of the village. A
Tilonia, the Barefoot College , puppets, however, play a special role is to give voice to people's problems: the disputes between families on issues village, problems related to economic hardship, work, debts incurred by the heads of families, early marriage, environmental degradation, the rights are not recognized.
Ram Niwas, the head of the theater, built himself, with his aides, the papier-mache puppets that are made for all events. In a small laboratory and some women sew the costumes.
The characters are those of the local: the same Bunker Roy (pictured below), Aruna, his wife, and all the leaders of the Barefoot College, but also the Wise, the usurer, the midwife, the schoolmaster, the redshank, and so on.
The small theater company will move from village to village, collecting during the day the testimony of people (adults and children) who want to put before the public a problem or address an important issue. Ram Niwas then wrote together with the other actors in the film company, discussing the various aspects of the issue to try to bring the topic to the audience effectively.
the evening, finally, in front of the whole village, is staged representation, preceded by an introduction of the most famous puppet of Tilonia: Jockim Cha Cha (pictured above, Ram Niwas is painting the face of Jockim), the wise uncle who opened the evening, explaining to viewers that will happen during the play, talks with them and reap the moral at the end of the show.
His words are held in high regard: Ram Niwas tells us that once, for example, was through him that the women of a village who were working to build a stretch of highway, you convisero on strike for higher wages and fair a more dignified way.
Power of Theater!
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