Several music and dance performances will be held in
HCM City to celebrate National Theatre Day, the 12th day of the eighth
lunar month [which falls on Thursday this year].
L''Espace will stage a cheo (traditional opera) performance entitled To
Nu Dan Ca (literally means "the young ladies sing folk songs") from 8pm
this Saturday.
Eight theatres have registered to join the first Ha
Noi Theatre Festival, to be held between September 25 and October 5. The
event celebrates the 60th anniversary of Ha Noi''s liberation from the
French invaders (October 10, 1954).
As many as 60 students at three junior high schools in the northern
province of Ninh Binh have been taught how to perform four excerpts of cheo (traditional opera) and the five ancient melodies.
The Viet Nam Cheo (Traditional Opera) Theatre has just staged a play
that the theatre bought the copyright to from the first online play
market (www.chokich.vn).
A performance highlighting some of the best
Vietnamese traditional arts will be performed every Monday morning and
Saturday evening at the Viet Nam Women''s Museum.
