Traditional glove puppets from the Beng Geok Hong Potehi troupe in Penang. While facial features and hairstyles indicate the role types and age of each puppet, the colours and designs of the costumes, ...

A Sooty glove puppet, brought home by a stagehand on the top children's TV show as a gift for his son, has been sold at auction for more than £1,000. Brian Kent, who built sets for The Sooty Show in ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--“Father,” a documentary that was widely received by Taiwanese and Japanese audiences, illustrates the life story of Taiwan’s renowned glove puppeteer Chen Hsi-huang ...

Chen Xihuang, an 85-year-old glove puppetry inheritor, shows his collection of glove puppets in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, July 23, 2016. Chen began learning glove puppetry when he was 13 years ...

The head is carved from wood. Mechanisms in the hollow head move the eyes and mouth. The main rod, made either of wood or bamboo, runs through the neck to the head, and the length varies. The hand ...

A glove puppet show jointly performed by robot and human puppeteers is staged in Jinjiang city, East China’s Fujian province, on Sunday. [Photo by Wang Qingchi and Wu Ze /for chinadaily.com.cn] A ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The work of a radical glove puppet theatre has triggered a bewildering political scandal in Madrid along with a ...