The most popular dramatic form is “likay”, a burlesque of
lakorn containing elements of pantomime, comic folk opera and social
satire. Generally performed against a simple-painted backdrop during temple
fairs, likay commonly presents court-derived stories and embellishes
them with local references and anecdotes.
Players, garishly costumed in satins, sequins and
feathered headgear, androgynously made up with powder, rouge and mascara, rely
heavily on pratfalls, jarring musical accompaniment and bawdy lyrics, Spontaneous
dialogue is freighted with outrageous puns and double entendres. Interaction
between characters keeps audiences awake and laughing until the morning.
“Nang Talung”, a popular
shadow play found mainly in the south of Thailand, closely resembles the
Indonesian wayang. Beautifully fashioned nang talung figures are
smaller than nang yai counterparts and are often constructed to have one
movable part – an arm, a leg, a chin or genitals.
Concealed
from audiences, nang talung manipulators are skilled singers and
comedians whose brilliants repartee keeps action bubbling.
“Nang Yai”, the neglected dramatic form, the regular
entertainment in 17th century Ayutthaya predates khon and lakorn,
intricately fashioned cowhide (cow skin) figures, some two meters tall, are held against a
brilliantly backlit white screen. Bearers of the figures dance their parts;
their movements were later to provide the pattern for khon and lakorn.
The effect resembles a high contrast, black and white
television set viewed inside a dark room. Animated silhouettes, the
figure-bearing men’s gestures and dancing combine with music and singing to
bring the spectacle to life.
“Lakorn” dance movements are graceful, sensual and tender, the upper torso and hands being particular expressive with conventionalized movements portraying specific emotions. Because the steps are very taxing on the dancer’s energies, a chorus sings narrative as in the khon.
Lakorn dance drama is less formal and actors than Khon, with the expectations of monkeys, ogres and other non-human, non-celestial beings, do not wear masks. Lakorn plots are drawn mainly from the Ramakien, the Jatakas (collected Buddhist tales), and folk stories.
Lakorn Categories :
Lakorn is sub-divided into
numerous variations, the major three being lakorn jatri, a lakorn
nawk and lakorn nai.
Lakorn jatri, a type of itinerant theatre, is derived from ‘Manohra’, the chief folk entertainment of southern Thailand. Simplest of all lakorn in form and presentation. Lakorn jatri is often seen at popular shrines such as Bangkok’s Lak Muang (City Pillar) near Wat Phra Keaw (The Emerald Buddha Temple) where dancers are hired by supplicants whose wishes have been granted (to win lottery prizes, promotion and the like) to perform for the shrine deity according to the fee they have received.
Lakorn
nai
drama was originally presented only by court ladies in the palace. It was
graceful, romantic and highly stylized.
Lakorn
nawk (Thai Folk Drama) play on the other hand, were performed outside the palace and acted only by
men. Filled with lively music, off-colour
humour and rapid, animated movements, lakorn nawk was the
ancestor of the enormously popular likay folk theater.
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