To enjoy some typical water puppet performances, you can take a look at the video below.Ĭertainly, it will be much great if tourists can directly watch these shows in Thang Long Water Puppets Theater after enjoying a cup of coffee in the coffee lounge which is right in front of the theater, and giving a nice view to Hoan Kiem Lake. Laurent Mourguet, the creator of the show, was from a modest family of silk workers. Water puppetry in Vietnam has recently gained worldwide fame for its lively and unique reflection of agrarian life in wet-rice villages of North Vietnam. This unique art first appeared around the 15th century, when post-. Water Puppetry in Vietnam: An Ancient Tradition in a Modern World: Directed by Sam Pack. villages in the Red River Delta area of northern Vietnam. Water puppetry is deeply imbued with the cultural characteristics of the people of this area. Photo by sounds risky, but the theater has been successful since the beginning the beginning and received favors and praises from audiences. Water puppetry (known in Vietnamese as ma ri nuc) traces its origins to eleventh century C.E. These seem to have originated in England by a printseller in about 1811 as a kind of theatrical souvenir one bought engraved sheets of characters and scenery for popular plays of the time, mounted them and cut them out, and performed the play at home. However, the artists of Thang Long Water Puppet Theater want to renew the old puppet shows with effect of light, music and combination between people and puppets. Traditional content of water puppet performance like daily life of Vietnamese farmers (cultivating, tending buffalo, catching fishes…), communal entertainment (swimming contest, dragon dancing…), or historical legends (Le Loi returns precious sword…), with modest performance way have appealed audiences for centuries. Although the overall technique is similar for all puppets, the guilds over centuries have developed special pulleys and rudders to control the puppets. Moreover, the theater has brought water puppetry art to more then 40 foreign countries like Japan, France, America, Australia, Spain… through performance tours, or international cultural exchange program or puppetry festivals. In 1969, the theater was established and since 1990 many water puppet shows have been performed by Thang Long theater artists.Every year, about 500 shows are offered to approximately 150,000 audiences. AN INSIGHTFUL LOOK AT VIETNAMESE WATER PUPPETRY (HISTORY, SHOWS & MORE) 1 - The origin & development 2 - Historical & cultural values of.

Water puppetry history