Shadow theater: the process

So, shadow theater is a thing again! :D I haven't done this at all for over a year (and I never did this very often, anyway), so I'm seriously out of practice, but I got an invitation to an event (amazing this person remembered my existence at all), and I have kind of missed this, so... Yeah. I'm accepting though the conditions are not ideal. And, since a shadow theater performance like the one I'm going to do ideally looks spontaneous but is, in fact, very carefully prepared, I'm taking this opportunity to write down the process.

( Behind a cut because I guess not everybody is interested in the specifics of preparing a shadow theater performance. )

....okay, wall of text again. Whatever. I expect no one to read this. LOL