Tiger Tales is an artful fusion of traditional Chinese and contemporary Western shadow theater techniques.

 

 

A wise old rabbit recounts stories from her eventful life to her young granddaughter - including how she came to be the Prime Minister to Tiger, the ever-hungry jungle king. Four linked tales, using a live storyteller and images based on antique Chinese leather shadow figures, trace Tiger’s sudden rise and disastrous fall and impart humorous lessons on survival for the small and powerless in today’s modern jungle.

 

NYC-based Chinese Theatre Works has won the highest honor in U.S. puppetry, a Citation of Excellence from UNIMA-USA, and the company has been featured at many festivals and conferences around the world. “Tiger Tales” also won three awards at the Shanghai International Art Festival, including Best Directing and Best Puppet Design.

 

 

Chinese Theatre Works is a non-profit organization based in New York City. Our mission is to preserve and promote the traditional Chinese performing arts (including opera, shadow theatre, puppetry, dance and music); to create new works that bridge Eastern and Western aesthetics and forms; and to foster understanding and appreciation of Chinese culture in audiences, students, artists and educators around the globe.