The Aquatic Puppet Theater from Thang Long, Vietnam is performing in Havana with a unique show in the world: Vietnamese Scenes.
Performances lasted until Tuesday, August 19 at Tropoloco big top.
There is something outstanding in this performance and is that young puppeteers assume a tradition of almost ten centuries.
The skill handling the puppets is amazing. The design of the puppets helps a lot, which have a beautiful finish in wood, with vivid colors, authentic handcrafts from an extraordinary culture of manual tradition.
Everything in the performance (scenes more or less realistic or those of pure fantasy) shows the Vietnamese popular culture closely related to water, means of resources or survival of a hard working and devoted people.
The scenes are simple and clear.
They develop essential conflicts many times who are solved with sense of humor and pyrotechnics. So, children are quickly identified to what happen.
It is a shame the design of the lights in these presentations is so elemental. It would have contributed to a greater alternation of tonal values and also the hall would have been darker which will stand out the aquatic stage.
