The show received much applause including standing ovations. I enjoyed watching foreign friends and tourists being impressed by the show. He looked very surprised when the puppeteers came out from behind the curtain. Even though we were seated very close to the stage, he insisted that the puppets were controlled by a computer system and couldn’t believe that there were artists behind the curtain. The first time I went there with a Singaporean man from my company. Vietnamese water puppetsWater Puppet Theater in Hanoi. I have seen the show more than 10 times at the Thang Long Tourists can buy wooden puppets as souvenirs after having watched the shows. Simple outdoor stages are also set up to serve audience in special events.
The theater in Hanoi is still the largest and has performed for the longest time. The shows are quite different as stories were made in accordance with the local culture. There are three water puppet theaters in different cities around Vietnam. His puppets have been displayed at exhibitions in Vietnam and abroad. He invested his money in building a small factory and employed local craftsmen to make 1,000 water puppets, because of his passion for this art form and his wish to preserve it for the next generations. There is an artist in Hanoi, who worked at the Thăng Long Water Puppet Troupe. However, at the end of the show, they appear at the water stage to wave good bye to the audience, with their upper part wearing Vietnamese traditional dress while still standing in the water.
They have to wear nylon clothes when standing in the water to control the puppets. Water puppet at the Thành Chương's Viet Palacehappy and proud of their traditional art. Some puppeteers have said that it was an unpleasant experience when standing in the extremely cold water, but after having seen the joy and applause from the audience, they forgot about it and felt very The water puppet shows have been performed in many countries and are highly appreciated everywhere because of their uniqueness. Throughout prolonged history, the water puppetry is Vietnam’s national pride which has been preserved and passed on through many generations. The characters in a puppet show can be heroic, legendary or mythic, but most are ordinary peasant characters living in the villages in northern Vietnam. The puppeteers stand in waist-deep water behind the rattan curtain. During performances, the puppets are controlled through a pole-and-string apparatus concealed by the pond water.
The puppets are made of wood and painted for waterproofing.
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The farmers in the region, while being free from the harvests, spent their time carving the wooden puppets and performing water puppet shows at the communal ponds to celebrate the festivals. It originated in the Red River Delta area of northern Vietnam in the 11th century.
“I could really see people fishing, dancing and all the different performances that happened.Vietnamese water puppetsThe 1,000-year-old Vietnamese water puppetry (Múa rối nước) is one of the most special art forms in the world. “I’ve never seen a puppet show that way with the water,” American tourist Caroline Thomoff told AFP after a show. The shows at Hanoi’s Thang Long theatre have become a staple on the well-trodden tourist circuit and draw thousands every week, including many first-time viewers. Some of the puppets weigh as much as 10 kilograms and the largest ones, like the one-meter-tall fairy, require four people to manipulate. “But our years of training and experience helps us control them,” added Hoai, who like many of her colleagues graduated from Hanoi’s College of Theatre and Cinema. “The puppets are pretty heavy… and the water also creates resistance,” said puppeteer Nguyen Thu Hoai, who swapped her galoshes for flip-flops between sold-out shows. In a darkened theatre in central Hanoi, a wooden dragon emerges from a pool to the sound of cymbals crashing in a traditional water puppet show that lures hundreds of tourists daily but is largely shunned by locals.īackstage behind a thin bamboo screen, around 20 puppeteers slosh around waist-deep in rubber overalls wielding the marionettes with long rods.
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