The Dance Center and Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival Present
KATKATHA PUPPET ARTS TRUST’S ABOUT RAM BY ANURUPA ROY
Thursday, January 29, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, January 30, 2026 at 1:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, January 31, 2026 at 11:00 a.m.
Tickets: Through Chicago International Puppet Theatre Festival Box Office TBA
The Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival returns to the Dance Center with this U.S. premiere from India.
Drawing on the Rama myth in Bhavabhuti’s ‘Uttararamacharita’ through Bunraku puppetry, Kathakali and Chau dance, and projected animation, About Ram focuses more on what Ram thinks and feels than on what he does. According to Director Anurupa Roy, she was inspired “to re-look at this ancient epic and find a new way of telling it.”
Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust is a Delhi, India based puppet theatre company which began in 1998 to bring new puppet works to festivals across India and the world and to train the next generation of professional puppeteers, create a discourse around puppetry, and build a network of puppeteers.
Banner image courtesy of Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust
