![]() ![]() Water puppetry has a long history that goes back to over a 1,000 years.Ī scene from the water puppetry show by Thang Long Water Puppet Theatre in Thrissur It was begun by farmers searching for some means of entertainment during the water-logged season. Water puppetry itself was born in water-logged paddy fields of Vietnam. However, the most touching part of the show was when the group leader referred to the Kerala floods while introducing the show and shared their own experiences of floods, a recurring phenomena in Vietnam. ![]() A grand backdrop, beautiful music and deftly manipulated puppets were enough to mesmerise the audience. The Thang Long Water Puppet Theatre performance, part of the recent 11th International Theatre Festival of Kerala (ITFoK), was a show-stealer. It was, in fact, a live water puppet show from Vietnam, which was staged in Thrissur. A watery landscape shimmered under a towering pagoda swathed in red fire-spitting dragons splashed around magical fairies glided down the water colourful ducks waded a fisherman tried for a large catch a squirrel ran up and down a tree a cunning fox endeavoured to snatch the ducks while a young man on a buffalo skipped over the glassy surface, playing a flute. For a few hours for two nights, the Actor Murali Open Theatre of the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi turned into a magical land.
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