Colorful puppetry art at the 2025 Autumn Fair

In the brilliant space of the 2025 Autumn Fair, the Vietnam Puppetry Theatre brought a space for exhibition and performance imbued with national identity.

The unique identity of puppetry art always attracts a large audience.

The colorful puppetry art has created a vibrant artistic picture within the framework of the 2025 Autumn Fair. From the exhibition booth to the performance stage, it has attracted a large number of visitors. The space has brought joy to exchange and meet between artists and the public, while gradually promoting and spreading the quintessence of Vietnamese puppetry closer to art lovers at home and abroad.

There, the audience is immersed in the world of water, wood, light... and the passion for creating folk art continues to be extended through each generation. To carefully prepare for the event, a long time before, the staff and artists of the Vietnam Puppetry Theatre have devoted all their heart and soul with the desire to bring to the public a unique artistic space, rich in identity; both traditional and creative, familiar yet new and attractive.

Many activities for visitors.

At the exhibition booth of the Theater, visitors have the opportunity to admire the exquisite puppet characters, completely handcrafted by the talented and dedicated hands of the artists. Each character, from the water puppetry of the Northern Delta to the land puppetry, is elaborately staged with a fascinating figure and performance.

In addition to the exhibition, the space is also a place for unique artistic exchange and experience. Audiences of all ages can directly learn how to control puppets, learn about the materials used, or create mini puppet characters with their own mark with the artisans.

The water pavilion symbol is elaborately constructed.

On the morning of October 25, the Vietnam National Puppetry Theatre brought a series of unique performances, from traditional water puppetry to performances combining modern music , lighting and new stage techniques.

The bustling sound of festival drums, the trickling sound of water, and the shimmering light reflecting on the graceful wooden puppets create a vivid, emotional artistic picture that attracts a large audience.

After enjoying the art, the audience also got to listen to the story behind each performance. These are touching stories about love for the homeland, people, and the preservation of the quintessence of Vietnamese culture through many generations of artists.

Many literary works are adapted through the art of puppetry.

In addition to the performance stage, the exhibition booth in Hall 5 of the Vietnam Puppetry Theatre has also become a popular destination. The exhibition introduces works of art, unique souvenir puppet characters, small gifts containing great cultural values ​​of the nation... Many visitors lingered for a long time to take pictures, chat with the artists, and record beautiful moments in that traditional space.

For the collective of artists of the Theater, participating in the Autumn Fair 2025 is an opportunity to introduce puppetry art closer to the public, and also an opportunity for the unit to affirm its important role in awareness and responsibility for preserving and promoting the value of national art in contemporary life.

Visitors enjoyed the puppet making experience.

Sharing at the Theater's exhibition booth within the framework of the 2025 Autumn Fair, People's Artist Nguyen Tien Dung - Director of the Vietnam Puppetry Theater emotionally expressed: "This is not the first time the unit has participated in serving important political and cultural tasks and events of the country. We always consider it a great honor and pride, and at the same time an opportunity to more widely introduce the quintessence of Vietnamese puppetry art to the public."

People's Artist Nguyen Tien Dung, Director of the Vietnam Puppetry Theatre, regularly closely monitors the exhibition and performance content at the event.

People's Artist Nguyen Tien Dung added that although the preparation time for this year's Autumn Fair coincided with many performance tasks and overseas business trips, the staff and artists of the Theater still made every effort, promoting a spirit of solidarity and high creativity to bring truly impressive performances and displays.

What artists want most is for the audience, especially the young generation, to be able to feel and love more the colors of puppetry and traditional arts of the nation because they are the soul of Vietnamese culture.

The show is loved by children.

In the behind-the-scenes story, the artists of the Theater shared that in order to have the performances and exhibition booths as perfect as today, the unit had to balance and skillfully arrange many tasks at the same time. However, no matter where they are, what they do... everyone is aiming for the common goal of the Theater's image, for the love of the art of traditional puppetry.

Those who stayed behind took care of setting up and completing the exhibition space; those who went on tour still took the opportunity to contribute comments and exchange ideas from afar. Everyone joined together in a spirit of responsibility, solidarity and creativity like invisible strings that bound the whole group together in a deep love for the profession.

The theater combines traditional elements with new sound and lighting effects.

For the artists, each event is another opportunity for them to contribute, another chance for the small, simple puppet characters to continue telling the story of the hardworking, skillful and emotional Vietnamese people. It is this belief and pride that helps the artists always keep the passion for their profession, despite the busy work and tight schedule.

The main surprise was the large number of audiences that unexpectedly flocked to the exhibition space and stage of the Theater, including many children and international guests. Many people were surprised and delighted by the new look of Vietnamese puppetry: both intimate and sincere, yet creative, modern and full of charm.

The exhibition booth of the Vietnam Puppetry Theatre attracts a large audience.

If in the past, the public was familiar with the image of rustic folk puppet characters on water or on a rudimentary stage, now the Theater has boldly renewed its performance language, combining lighting techniques, sound effects, mechanical movements and modern projection technology, creating a multi-layered, emotional stage space.

Thanks to that, each performance truly brings a captivating visual and auditory experience, making viewers, whether children or adults, Vietnamese or international audiences, feel captivated from the very first minute.

What is valuable is that in this innovation, the quintessence of traditional puppetry art is still fully preserved, from the handmade puppet lines, skillful control movements, to expressive language rich in folklore.

The blend of tradition and modernity, Vietnamese identity and contemporary breath, has helped puppetry take on a new look, more youthful, more intimate but still profound and sophisticated. Through that, it can be seen that traditional art is being properly preserved and revived through new methods of expression.

THUY PHUONG

Source: https://nhandan.vn/sac-mau-nghe-thuat-mua-roi-tai-hoi-cho-mua-thu-2025-post918573.html