Da Trach Love Story is adapted from the legend about the unusual encounters between beautiful Princess Tien Dung and a poor young fisherman without a loincloth Chu Dong Tu.
Once going sightseeing on the river, seeing beautiful poetic scenery, the Princess and the maidens went ashore singing and dancing. Chu Dong Tu, who was fishing, saw lots of people thus hided himself in the sand.
The Princess took a bath amidst the nature. The water went down on the sand making the robust body of Chu Dong Tu appear. Knowing the poor circumstances of Mr. Chu and his dutifulness to his parents who had given his last loincloth to his father when the latter passed away, Princess Tien Dung’s heart was stirred. The predestined affinity makes them become husband and wife, and together they helped villagers in farming to lead a plentiful life.
Being so angry with this non-homogamy relation, the King summoned the Princess to the Palace.
Not disobeying her father, the King, Tien Dung and Chu Dong Tu were determined to be together forever and thus suicide together and were turned into a pair of cranes flying to the Heaven.
Their great romance breaks all barriers of the feudal regime, speaks out the aspiration for love of young people, creating a legendary and immortal LOVE in the human world.
The Da Trach Love Story is an art work, honouring the legendary love of Saint Chu Dong Tu, one of the four Immortals of the Vietnamese religious culture.
Script writer: Hong Ha, Artist of Merit
Poem: Phan Huyen Thu
Director: Hong Ha, Artist of Merit
Puppet plastic art: Duy Bang
Shadow puppet: Ha Bac, People’s Artist
Stage fine art: Duy Bang
Art Director: Vuong Duy Bien, Artist of Merit
Source: Word and Photo: Arts Department
