Shadow Puppet Drama from Java

at the Freer Gallery's Meyer Auditorium, 7/6/2006

This was really cool. It's been a few weeks now since the show - so only time for quick thoughts...
1. What a great opportunity. I've never seen anything like this live.
2. Too bad the gamelan players were mostly Americans - I'm no expert but I thought some of it was a little shaky. I could be wrong - see the "i'm no expert" clause above.
3. Damn that was long (two hours +)
4. Thank you Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian and Michael Wilpers. This show rocked.