Music, firecrackers and smoke bring these dramas to life on a shimmering stage of water. Once performed on a village pond they now travel the world.

Water provides the magic and hides the mechanism of the puppet. In Vietnam today schools teach this art, once jealously guarded and passed down only from father to son.

Teu, as master of ceremonies, sits on the buffalo. He introduces many colourful characters, each one will perform their own story - from the mythical and legendary to the ordinary and everyday.

- Vietnamese water puppets in Brighton Museum's collection
- Introducing Vietnamese water puppet performance
- The scenes in water puppet theatre
- Waterpuppets as a theme in Performance Gallery
- References