Role vodního loutkového divadla ve vietnamské společnosti

• Authors: Veronika Pospíšilová

Title variants

EN

THE ROLE OF WATER PUPPET THEATRE IN VIETNAMESE SOCIETY

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This paper deals with the Vietnamese water puppet theatre, which is one of the genres of Vietnamese theatre. Special emphasis is placed on the general characteristics of the theatre and on its component parts. The paper briefly describes the development of the theatre and the main events in its history. Then it concentrates on the individual theatre companies, on the role of the puppeteers and on the position of women in this art. The individual scenes in the performances and the characters appearing in them are also described and analyzed. The paper is concludes with the description of the role of the musical accompaniment, which has always had an irreplaceable role in the performances.

Keywords

EN

History of Water Pupet Theatre; Individual Theatre Companies; Role of Puppeteers; Scenes of Performances; North Vietnam; 13th-21st Century

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Studia Ethnologica Pragensia
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 63-75

Contributors

author

Veronika Pospíšilová

• Ústav etnologie, Filozofická fakulta, Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Czech Republic