Theatre of Vietnam

With the success of the August Revolution in 1945, theatrical art entered a new creative period including a new type of theater based on the music of local folk tunes.

Vietnamese theatre is strongly influenced by Chinese opera and other forms, and includes genres like Chèo, Tuồng and Cải lương.

Chèo is a form of generally satirical musical theatre, often encompassing dance, traditionally performed by Vietnamese peasants in northern Vietnam.

Hoa Lu–Ninh Binh is considered as the original land of the Chèo, and its founder, (Mrs) Pham Thi Tran, was a talented dancer in the royal palace during the Dinh dynasty of the tenth century.

Like chèo and other forms of opera from around the world, tuồng employs the use of stock characters who are recognizable from their make-up and costumes, which are typically very elaborate and extravagant.

Due to strict restrictions on learning the art of water puppetry, the form had nearly died out before the Maison des Cultures du Monde intervened in 1984 and helped reinvigorate the genre.

Vietnam's theater industry was formed during the Đinh dynasty, when the Đại Cồ Việt state was born after 1000 years of Northern domination.

This is the birthplace of written literature and is also considered the ancestral land of Vietnamese theater art with the formation of chèo, tuồng and circus disciplines.

Hoa Lư is the homeland of the cheo theater art founded by Mrs. Phạm Thị Trân, a talented dancer in the Đinh royal palace.

Through the legend of the shaman Văn Du Tường of the Đinh dynasty, using a scheme to kill the Xương Cuồng demon in Bạch Hạc, shows that the art of circus and vaudeville such as walking on a rope, swinging, and planting banana trees has appeared.

In order to frighten the Song emissaries, the king gave three thousand soldiers who liked the three words "Thiên Tử Quân" majestically and majestically on their foreheads, opened a great exercise, played a fake role with the boatmen, and rang the drums and cheered, planting flags, pretending to arrange troops in battle, to flaunt their prestige and still citing the above book: Emperor Lê Đại Hành reigned to conquer Champa, captured hundreds of singers in the Champa capital and brought them back to the country, forcing them to dance, sing and have fun, that was the formation of theater and circus art.

During the reign of Trần Dụ Tông, a friend named Đinh Bàng Đức from the Yuan dynasty came to take refuge because of the war.

In the years of peace, the theater flourished, from a semi-professional theatrical movement, the campfire stage developed into professional art troupes.

The unique thing about Bài chòi opera is that an actor can defend many roles at the same time, with a simple orchestra but still attracts the audience (similar to Korean Pansori).