Southeast Asian Ritual and Puppet Theatre

Masked and puppet performance traditions of Southeast Asia carrying religious narrative: Wayang Kulit (the shadow puppet theatre of Java and Bali) and Lakhon Khol (the all-male masked dance drama of Cambodia, telling the Reamker). Belongs here: a Southeast Asian performance tradition using puppetry or masked dance to stage religious or epic narrative. Does not belong here: a South Asian dance-drama tradition of the same general shape, held under Hindu Devotional and Temple Dance Drama instead.