Water Puppet Show

15/05/2016 20:34

55B Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street, Ben Thanh Ward, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City,

Contact: +84 8 3930 2196

Show Time and entrance fee:

17:00 and 18:30 every day (show for around 01 hour)

200,000 VND per ticket

Water puppetry “Múa rối nước” it means puppets dance on water is a tradition dates

back as far as the 11th century when it originated in the villages of the Red River

Delta area of northern Vietnam. Today's Vietnamese water puppetry is a unique

variation on the ancient Asian puppet tradition.

The puppets are made out of wood and then lacquered. The shows are performed in a

waist-deep pool. A large rod supports the puppet under the water and is used by the

puppeteers, who are normally hidden behind a screen, to control them. Thus the

puppets appear to be moving over the water. When the rice fields would flood, the

villagers would entertain each other using this form of puppet play.

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