BANGKOK: Sakorn Yang-keowsot, a renowned Thai national artist and eminent puppetry master, has died of lung and kidney complications, news reports said yesterday. He was 85. Sakorn, the founder of the Joe Louis puppet theatre, died Monday night at a Bangkok hospital, the Bangkok Post paper said. Founded in 1985, the Joe Louis theatre combined khon, Thailand’s classical masked theatre, and traditional puppetry.
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