Prologue · Bangkok
วสุ วรรลยางกูร · “Takkatan” ตั๊กแตน
Wasu is a mime.
Physical theatre, mime and puppetry that carry personal memory into public history, and ask who gets to tell it.
Move the light · paper puppets from Untold Story
Wasu Wanrayangkoon is a Bangkok-based theatre maker working in physical theatre, pantomime, clown and puppetry, with more than fifteen years of professional practice. He has been a member of B-Floor Theatre since 2012, a company known for socially engaged work that supports democracy, and has performed with them in Tokyo and Seoul. Since 2009 he has been an actor and director with Konnakhao Mime, Thailand’s white-face mime company founded in 1984.
His recent work deals with memory, exile and freedom of expression. In Untold Story (ไกลบ้าน) he uses puppetry and documentary material to tell the story of his father, the writer and Sriburapha Award laureate Wat Wanlayangkoon, who went into exile after the 2014 coup and died in Paris in 2022.
He is a fellow of Mekong Cultural Hub and a festival producer: he directed the KonRak Mime Festival 2018 and produces Puppet Slam in Bangkok, an annual festival of contemporary puppetry. He also leads storytelling workshops that draw stories from objects, letters and life maps.
วสุ วรรลยางกูร (ตั๊กแตน) นักแสดงและผู้สร้างงานละครเวทีจากกรุงเทพฯ ทำงานด้วยละครกายภาพ ละครใบ้ ตัวตลก และละครหุ่นร่วมสมัยมากว่า 15 ปี สมาชิกคณะ B-Floor Theatre ตั้งแต่ปี 2555 และนักแสดง-ผู้กำกับคณะคนหน้าขาว (Konnakhao Mime) สนใจประเด็นความทรงจำ การลี้ภัย และเสรีภาพในการแสดงออก ผู้สร้างงาน ไกลบ้าน Untold Story และโปรดิวเซอร์เทศกาล Puppet Slam in Bangkok
A puppetry performance about father and son, exile and political wounds. It picks up the memories that the documentary Away (ไกลบ้าน) left out.
Ghost stories, popular on Thai radio and YouTube, become a way to remember disappeared dissidents and repressed protests, from the 1976 Thammasat massacre to the 2020 youth movement. Wasu performs in the cast.
A festival of short-form contemporary puppetry. The 2026 edition, its third, presented 20 new works with workshops, talks and artist development, supported by the Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, Ministry of Culture.
Participants start from what they already own: an object, a letter, a map of their life. Together we turn these into short performances with puppetry and mime, so that a personal story can stand on stage without needing a script.
Schooled in Augusto Boal’s techniques, Wasu uses theatre as a rehearsal for change: games and image work that let communities look at power, censorship and everyday injustice, then try out other endings.
For residencies, festivals, workshops and collaborations.
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