Bringing the Stories of Vietnam to the World

As of today, Cultura Fish has only started its first steps on this long journey ahead. Looking back on our two years of formation and progress, Cultura Fish has slowly grown through each of our projects.

As an effort to have a full picture about The Southern Gem, Cultura Fish had the opportunity to meet and interview with the director of The Hát Bội Theatre of Hồ Chí Minh city, mister Võ Hồ Hoàng Vũ, he was also the art director of the program.

During the years of 2017-2018, there were many activities, projects, and programs that focus on hát bội, where it aimed to revive the art of hát bội upon various mediums and perspectives, the resurgence came up like an exciting wave of vitality for this long forgotten art to be born again.

Theatre characters in hát bội have an important function for the technical elements.

“Nịnh” motif, “Tướng” (villain) and “Yêu đạo” motifs

In đào motif, only the character Chung Vô Diệm, Đào Tam Xuân, and Ngọc Kỳ Lân have their makeup as mask-like, the rest of them all have light makeup face.

“Lão" is a term to describe male characters (kép) that are elderly.

“Kép” is a term to describe male characters. Their appearances tend to be young or middle aged male, with a light makeup face (using beard to distinguish).

Categorizing Southern Vietnamese Music Performance based on daily activities as a reasonable approach to familiarize with the genres of ru, hò and lý.