Actors from the Viet Nam National Drama Theatre will enact a new play entitled The Mouse Daughter''s Marriage at Malaysia''s George Town Festival in August.
The Shakespeare classic Hamlet, will return to the stage in Viet Nam
early this June. It is the first play in a long line of world classics
to be performed by the Viet Nam National Drama Theatre.
Emeritus artist Nguyen Anh Dung, a leading actor on
the Vietnamese screen and former director of the Viet Nam National Drama
Theatre, died on Thursday after suffering a stroke two months ago. He
was 64.
Viet Nam National Drama Theatre will bring a new production entitled
Chuyen Chang Dung Si (A Valiant Man''s Story) to the second ASEAN – China
Stage Forum, scheduled for October 22-28 in Nanning, China.
A drama entitled Cai Lao Hoan Dong (Rejuvenation)
will be performed by Vietnamese artists at the International Performing
Arts Festival in Pohang City, South Korea.
A theatrical production will be staged by veteran director Doan Hoang
Giang and the Ha Noi Drama Theatre highlighting Ha Noi''s resistance
against the French colonists.
The family of the late Professor Hoang Chau Ky (1921-2008) has donated more than 200 of his research books to
Nguyen Hien Dinh Tuong (Traditional Drama Theatre) in central city of
Da Nang.
A short play by the Viet Nam Drama Theatre will be presented at the
first China-ASEAN Theatre Festival and Forum in the Guangxi Zhuang
Autonomous Region in China.
The culture ministry on Tuesday announced that it
would postpone the merging of two popular theatres in the north – the
Viet Nam Drama Theatre and Tuoi Tre (Youth) Theatre – to form a new
national drama theatre.
A new theatre will be formed through the merger of
the Youth Theatre and the Viet Nam Drama Theatre, the capital city''s two
largest theatres, according to a decision announced by the Ministry of
Culture, Sport and Tourism on Thursday.
