Ten Thousand Foes: Shadow Play

Ten Thousand Foes is a Chinese shadow-puppet play that you perform. Every hero, soldier, horse and banner is a cut-leather puppet, dyed and punched by hand, lit from behind on a paper screen. You are both the puppeteer and the general. THE STAGE The camp is a lamplit puppet stage: your hero performs on control rods while the rest of the troupe waits below. Each chapter is a new act under its own lamp: the amber light of the Yellow Turban fields, dusk at Hulao Pass, embers at Guandu, moonlit blue on the river at Red Cliffs and jade green in the southern jungle. SKILLS MADE OF LEATHER Attacks are cut from dyed leather too: Guan Yu's green dragon is a segmented leather dragon that surges across the screen, flames are flickering leather cut-outs, arrows and throwing knives are leather silhouettes. Ultimates open with the hero stepping forward on a lit band, like a performer taking the front…