Southern Arts Theater celebrates Tet with "Mermaid's Dream"

The play will perform 27 shows during the Lunar New Year 2025 at the Ho Chi Minh City Museum of History.

The Southern Arts Theater has debuted the water puppet show "Mermaid's Dream" (artistic direction: Meritorious Artist Le Ich Dien, scriptwriter: Master Cao Phuong Dung, director: Thu Thuy, music: Meritorious Artist Nguyen Quang Hung, art design and puppetry: painter Quang Khanh - Van Trien). The show will be performed 27 times during the Lunar New Year 2025 at the Ho Chi Minh City Museum of History.

A scene from the water puppet show “The Mermaid’s Dream”. (Photo: THANH HIEP)

The story is about a mermaid named Ariel who lives in the middle of the deep blue ocean - a beautiful kingdom where all kinds of sea creatures live together in peace. Ariel witnesses her beautiful ocean kingdom being increasingly polluted by human waste.

However, she was fascinated by the human world and saved a prince when his ship was sinking. It was his love that made Ariel want to live on land, she traded her singing voice with the Octopus Witch to have legs to step into the human world and wanted the prince and humans to understand the harmful effects of marine pollution that they themselves caused.

Water puppet show "The Mermaid's Dream"

The water puppet show carries a message praising love and understanding between humans and nature, which is the key to protecting the ocean, preventing pollution and building a sustainable future.

The play features the following actors: Hoang Kim, Duy Luan, Dao Nhung, Ho Quang, Thuy Trang, Phuong Thuy, Le Trang, Thanh Phuong, Thanh Binh, Ngoc Hai, Kim Hoa, Trong Nguyen, Chi Cuong, Phu Cuong, Ngoc Tam...

The water puppet show carries a message praising love and understanding between humans and nature.

Source: https://nld.com.vn/nha-hat-nghe-thuat-phuong-nam-don-tet-voi-giac-mo-nang-tien-ca-196250114201844892.htm