Established in 1969, after nearly half a century of establishment and development, Thang Long Water Puppet Theater is considered a "unique" ideal cultural program, as well as a quintessential "specialty". The extremely attractive god is always ready to serve many foreign tourists coming to Vietnam and those who are interested in learning about the nation's unique traditional culture.
Thang Long Water Puppet Theatre
Becoming the leading brand of Vietnamese puppetry, Thang Long is the only art theater in Vietnam to hold the Asian record for professional plays, specializing in water puppetry performances during the year. Up to now, the theater has successfully created several unique and attractive programs and plays, attracting the attention of domestic and foreign customers. With effort and determination, the Theater has received many major awards in domestic and international puppet festivals. Many artists were awarded noble titles: People's Artist, Meritorious Artist...
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With the existing strengths of an art unit, Thang Long Puppet Theater is always one of the most attractive destinations in Hanoi, It hopes to be better known to domestic and foreign customers and have more opportunities to understand and discover the rustic beauty and rich symbolic meanings of Vietnamese water puppetry art.
Born from the Vietnamese wet rice civilization, water puppetry was formed and developed in most villages and communes of Thang Long capital and the wards and puppetry of some Northern Delta provinces. Water puppets contain thoughts and emotions, expressing the intelligence, creativity, and aspirations of Vietnamese people. Water puppetry is ranked as one of the art forms with high value in the cultural and spiritual life of the Vietnamese people. In addition to mainstream water puppetry, Thang Long Puppet Theater has invested in building land puppetry art by modern criteria while still imbuing national cultural identity.
