Well, we were bored. So why not go to a water puppet show?
The first time I saw this was 2.5 years ago in Hanoi. This was exactly the same show in every detail. The stage, for no apparent reason, is a tub of very dirty-looking water. The puppets are beautiful lacquered machines--they don't exactly compete with today's 3-D entertainment, but they must have been cutting-edge tech in their time. The show is introduced by a simple boy puppet chatting with the musicians in Vietnamese--not very reassuring to the foreigner. But the following scenes are generally written to show off a puppet that can swim or dance or squirt water.
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