Never experienced this show since I was in primary school. We always wonder how to improve and advertise this kind of traditional show. I feel a little bit sad for the puppet artist if there are not many people buying tickets. It really hurts my feeling. Hope it can reach young people in the near future

We visited this as part of our tour. It was definitely a unique and interesting experience, and one I'd recommend doing once. I reckon just under an hour is about right. There's about 11 different short acts, and a brief description of each is displayed on a screen at the beginning of each one, which was handy.

There well be other Water Puppet theatres available, but this was certainly a great experience. We really did not know what to expect, but it was quite easy to follow the sory line and the puppetry was so skilful. There live music is also good, and it is certainly a great place to visit in Hanoi

Didn’t have high expectations going in, but surprisingly enjoyed the show due to it’s uniqueness. Only Vietnam has water puppets. Kudos to the puppeteers who manipulated the puppets with such skilled and precisions. The puppets emerges from the water and choreograph story telling. The show also included singers and musical instruments accompaniments of traditional music and songs.

The show was about 30 minutes. It began with musicians playing traditional instruments and singers singing (in Vietnamese). There were 10 water puppet acts with a monitor in the front corner listing the names of the acts (it helps explain the scene). The puppeteers are very talented. The show was enjoyable for all ages.

This is a beautiful show that lasted around 50minutes. Towards the end the two young kids (7&10) were a bit bored but that was only about the final 5 mins they were over it. It’s a lovely art form, and some beautiful musicians adding to the spark of it all along the way. Over all it was not expensive (200k front rows, 150k middle rows, 100k back rows) but if you do not book tickets early, especially if there’s multiple people then you will either miss out on a good seat, if not completely.

Got our tickets the day before (around 2:30pm) for the 6:30pm show and scored front row seats in the Centre for 150K VND each person. The schedule for the week had at least one show at 5:15 everyday. Awesome performance. It’s really a must do in my opinion. Had a really informative display board in English on the right (and I think French on the left) describing each story/scene.

I enjoyed the show here, a good deal at 80,000 VND cash for a balcony seat. The impressive puppetry and music, and the special effects (those dragons!) were delightful. I couldn’t find the show calendar online, but when I was there in Oct 2023 the performances were generally at 17:15 most days. Tip for those who don’t speak Vietnamese: I was sitting on the right side of the theater (facing the stage) and wish I’d been sitting on the left side since I couldn’t fully see the English scene descriptions, only the French ones. There were seats on the left but, by the time I realized it was an issue, it seemed too late to move so I stayed for the 50 minute duration and still enjoyed myself.

This was so much fun! The puppetry was really great, and musicians provided live music. We only paid $11 each for our tickets for the 50 minute show. If you're traveling with kids I bet they'd love it.