Các khuynh hướng kịch bản hát bội ở Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh (nhìn từ thực tiễn nhà hát nghệ thuật hát bội Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh)

Abstract

Hát bội (tuồng) is a dramatic form of Vietnamese traditional theatrics. It has a long development in history, a wide influence throughout three regions of our country. In the Southern, hát bội has its own characteristics in expression style and creation poetics. In 1977, the Hồ Chí Minh City’s Hát bội Art Troupe (the Hồ Chí Minh City’s Hát bội Art Theatre now) was established. It has been gathering a lot of hát bội artists, who have contributed to make an identity in hát bội art and represented hát bội art of Hồ Chí Minh City in particular and the one of Southern in general. Hát bội’s scripts of Hồ Chí Minh City have inherited the traditional hát bội art in Southern. They have also accepted modern factors in contemporary dramatic literature. This article outlines tendencies of hát bội script in Hồ Chí Minh City (View from Hồ Chí Minh City’s Hát bội Art Theatre) during 40 years of creation and development.