From the Theatre, spending several minutes of walking, visitors may do sightseeing and discover simultaneously many famous landscapes and cultural historical relics in Hanoi Capital, such as Ngoc Son Temple, Ly Thai To Park, Hanoi Opera House – August Revolution Square, Temple of Literature, Hanoi Old Square, Museum of Vietnamese History, Vietnamese Women’s Museum, Hoa Lo Prison…; and pleasurably walk, do shopping and enjoy foods at trade centers such as: Trang Tien, Dong Xuan market, Hang Ngang street, Hang Dao street, Hanoi night market, Thong Nhat Park…

 

 

It is said that Thang Long Water Puppet Theatre is the ideal cultural place for visitors. It offers the “unique” water puppet program which is the extremely attractive spiritual “speciality”. For many last years, the brand name Thang Long Water Puppet Theatre has been known as an exploit which possesses a specially “uncanny” attraction, becomes a destination which is fonded of by many domestic and foreign visitors and  tourists.

 

 

The Theatre was established on October 1969 under the investment and guidance of Hanoi City People’s Committee and Department of Culture- Sport and Tourism. After nearly a half-century of formation and development, from an art troupe of 9 actors and actresses who graduated from Hanoi College of Art; now the Theatre has owned two troupes and functional divisions and sections, a personnel force of officers, artists, puppeteers, technicians… who have been under full-time training courses, highly qualified, active, creative, fully enthusiastic. They may undertake many parts with many styles of performance… keeping pace with international puppeteers. Many of them have held such positions as managers, authors, stage directors or activists…

 

 

 

 

From the art troupe of which infrastructure was poor, only offered programs of land become the leading brand name of Vietnamese water puppetry, being the unique theatre in Vietnam holding the Asian record for “being the only theatre in Asia that performs water puppetry all 365 days of the year”.

 

 

According to VietKings (Kyluc.vn)

 

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