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Ratchaneekorn Ratchatakorntrakoon, Chulalongkorn University, ThailandAbstract
This research aimed to analyze the factors and processes in the enhancement and revision of Phetchaburi rod puppet performances to help promote tourism in a creative context. Community participatory-based research was adopted as the method. Rod puppet artists, Chatri drama performers, musicians, teachers and students, officers of the province’s cultural section, cultural activists, local wisdom scholars, and local media were selected as the stakeholders. The findings reveal that a number of limitations imposed on puppet artists and inheritors, along with the changing purpose of and the area for staging the performances, played critical roles in the form and nature of such enhancement and revision. The process started with a rod puppet performance workshop in one selected school. In order to continue performances of the rod puppets, even after the termination of the research project, the making of rod puppets was included in a workshop, along with training for singing puppet songs and rod puppet manipulation. With the participation of all stakeholders, a new puppet show that could be used to promote Phetchaburi’s tourist destination was created during the workshop and will receive continuing support to be able to perform on Phetchaburi’s walking street.
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Conference: ACAH2025Stream: Performing Arts Practices: Theater
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Ratchatakorntrakoon R. (2025) Creation Through Co-learning: Phetchaburi Rod Puppet Performances in the Context of Creative Tourism ISSN: 2186-229X – The Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities 2025 Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 379-387) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-229X.2025.30
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-229X.2025.30
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