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The boldness in choosing expressive language and thoroughly exploiting folk materials has helped the work become an interesting example in the creative story of today's theater.

Fairy tales, puppetry and bamboo materials are all very familiar to stage audiences of many generations, but when combined in “Tam Cam”, they are “illuminated” in a very modern way. Bamboo is no longer just a material but plays the role of a character that evokes “visual memories”: Bamboo creates stage scenery, bamboo shapes characters. Through the play, the audience seems to be led through an emotional museum of the Northern countryside - a place associated with bamboo fences, fairy tales or spring puppet shows.

In addition, the play also has many significant strengths in combining tradition with modern theatrical language. The organization of the stage in many layers, completely different from the traditional puppet stage, shows a bold and experimental mindset. The creative team has cleverly transformed the traditional narrative-oriented stage into a modern stage with many suggestions, focusing on conveying messages through the shape, telling stories in many layers through different stages. Or using the art of Cheo as a thread to guide the story also creates a modern dialogue between many traditional art forms on a common stage.

For a long time, finding a direction for the stage, even for those that are proud to be "on all year round" like Thang Long Puppetry Theatre, has always been a concern for many generations of artists. In that journey, it is not difficult to realize that returning to exploit the traditional folk cultural values to the fullest always brings unexpected results. And through "Tam Cam", the audience has realized more clearly the development space of Vietnamese stage art in telling a very traditional story with modern treatment. Traditional stage in general, puppetry in particular, really need playgrounds to experiment, to be creative and conquer today's audience.

Source: https://hanoimoi.vn/ca-phe-cuoi-tuan-mot-phep-thu-hay-725258.html