Last night I got to see a Vietnamese water puppet show. The shows originally started centuries ago in the rice paddies of the Mekong Delta and the puppeteers use the water as a stage while they stand behind a bamboo screen.
What I saw last night was exactly the same except it was in a theatre in Hanoi instead of a rice paddy! It was incredibly clever how they used the water and the puppets were very well made. What you can see in the photo is dragon puppet moving around with a bird puppet, it is part of the traditional story of how the people of Vietnam were created. I got to watch a few other Vietnamese stories told on stage too and it was a really interesting evening.
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