About Us

Razko Puppet Theatre was founded by Raz Koroh, who was determined to introduce revolutionary teaching methods through the integration of theatre with the education of young children. It was opened in the mid-2018 after a year of renovation. It is located on level three of a large shopping mall on the outskirt of the fast-growing city of Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. Kota Kinabalu is the most accessible international destination in Borneo, and it has the country’s second busiest international airport with direct flights to Japan, South Korea, China and Australia, among others.

Razko is also the only known puppet theatre to exist in Borneo and the only permanent puppet theatre in Malaysia. Although the theatre was built specifically with puppet performance and audience in mind, it also caters for small scale stage shows such as chamber music, stand-up comedy, magic show and pantomime. It holds the distinction for being at the forefront of Wayang Kulit shadow puppetry revivalism in Southeast Asia.

Since the beginning, the theatre’s founder placed enormous effort in the promotion of theatre method in the teaching of English for young children. It does this by giving free regular animated literature lessons to school children as well as by promoting puppet classes to young children where they can learn how to make puppets and perform the puppets on stage. Needless to mention is the fact that the theatre incurs great cost in running the programs and would welcome any financial assistance from the public.

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