Many audiences, after watching the shows give this comment: “After watching Vietnamese puppet shows, we find Vietnam in our heart”. The puppet shows of the Theatre are rich in content and new in format, delivering profound human culture messages. Not being satisfied with the achievements left by their ancestors, generations of puppet artists, particularly young puppet performers from the Vietnam National Puppetry Theatre have in recent years confirmed their talent and further developed the Theatre to be worthy of its national art brand name and a leading puppet theatre of the country’s puppet industry with programs and shows diverse in format and genres of both stage and water puppetry.
Yet, in recent years, the Theatre has brought stage puppet shows to their traveling performance trips overseas, and they have been accepted and loved by foreign audiences. In the past, international audiences only knew about Vietnam’s traditional water puppetry.
In the process of international integration, puppetry art has been developed to catch up with the breath of the time through creation and breakthrough experiments. A number of changes has been made to the Theatre’s art programs such as adapting foreign plays to traditional water puppet shows, renewing puppet plastic arts, expanding spaces for puppet stage performance, combining different puppet genres in a program, finding active support from choreography, music and light effect etc., thus surprising both domestic and international and audiences. With funny, attractive and unique puppet plays, the puppeteers have really won the heart of foreign audiences rendering water puppetry from Vietnam unique in the world. Vietnamese puppeteers have performed in 60 countries worldwide including Japan, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Hungary, Norway, Myanmar, Brunei, the Philippines, Turkey, Poland, Slovakia, Chile, Thailand, China, Korea, Australia, the Czech Republic, and Mexico. Over the last 60 years, generations of puppet artists from the Vietnam National Puppetry Theatre have brought Uncle Tễu and other funny characters from Vietnam’s rice fields to offer successful puppet shows across all continents. They included Stories of To he, The Soul and Vigor of Thang Long, Ugly Duck, Children’s Moon, Country Rhythm, Aladin and the Magic Lamp, Sun Wukong defeats White Essence, Xuy Van pretends to be mad, and Witches fear Ghost etc. Many experimental stage puppet shows and programs, very novel and attractive, have resonated and won high awards and prizes at domestic and international festivals. have brought a new face to traditional water puppetry. A number of art works such as Hồn quê (The Country Soul), Anderson Fairy Tale, The Mysterious Dream of Tễu and Kangaroo, White Space, and Da Trach Love Story etc.
In recent years, the Theatre has successfully experimented some shows with new format, combining traditional and contemporary and stage and water puppet plays to be more attractive to the audience. The Theatre’s art programs are often updated and renewed to match the development pace of the society. In addition, traveling puppet shows are offered on contract domestically and internationally. It has 5 People’s Artists, 25 Artists of Merit and many other outstanding young artists.Īt present, the Theatre has three stages for performance: one for stage puppet shows and two for water puppet shows (an indoor and an outdoor pool Pagoda stage). The Theatre has a long history of 60 years of development and has a number of leading puppetry researchers, authors, directors, visual artists, fine art decorators, and puppet performers of the country. Vietnam National Puppetry Theatre – the largest hub of puppetry arts of Vietnam with the function of preserving and developing traditional theatrical arts. Vietnam National Puppetry Theatre: Worthy of the National Art Brand
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