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 12:00 p.m.
Click here for tickets: Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival Box Office
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, Anurupa Roy, managing trustee, started in India as an association of puppeteers in 1998. The name is an amalgam of two Hindi words: Kat, meaning wood, derived from the word Katputli (puppetry), and Katha, meaning story. About Ram was created with support from the India Foundation for the Arts and in collaboration with animator Vishal Dar and master puppeteer S.Chidambara Rao, from the Tolu Bommalattam form of Andhra Pradesh.
Banner image courtesy of Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust
