Musicians, Traditional water puppet show at the Performing Arts Revival Theatre at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology. Vietnamese water puppetry was originated in the villages of the Red River Delta area of northern Vietnam a thousand years ago.  A Water Puppet Show is the unique art performed in a pool of water with the water surface being the stage. The puppeteers control the puppets with long bamboo rods behind a split-bamboo screen. A traditional Vietnamese orchestra provides background music accompaniment. Hanoi, northern Vietnam.
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