Cai Luong is a musical theater form originating from the South, inheriting, synthesizing and developing from many types of Southern folk performances, and influenced by Western theater. Until about the 20s of the twentieth century, Cai Luong gradually became a popular form of entertainment for Cochinchina audiences. This genre flourished in the 50s and 60s, with the explosion of many famous actors, composers and talented actors. Most of the memories of Cai Luong's glory days are recorded during this period.

YUME Stories Telling Cai Luong Stories is part of the project Together with the Community Telling Cai Luong Stories organized by YUME Art Project in 2021. Recognizing the need to share and open up a dialogue space about Cai Luong art Luong, YUME Art Project has approached researchers, directors, doctors, community activists to invite people to remind them of the current flow of memories about Cai Luong art.

Built in the form of a conversation, the content of YUME Telling Cai Luong brings multi-dimensional personal perspectives around the study, monitoring and practice of Cai Luong art in the process of social development. Cai Luong, in the framework of the project Together with the Community Telling Stories Cai Luong is not only an art form that exists on the stage but also becomes an agent of forming the flow of community memories, defining individual and common identities. of the people who interact with it.

YUME tells the story of Cai Luong consists of seven podcast episodes, each episode is themed by a question, the host, who is a young audience, dialogues with the artist, director, researcher on the memory of Cai Luong. through professional experience, lifetime roles, motivation to pursue the art of Cai Luong… For this program, all podcast episodes are posted on Spotify - a popular and public-friendly digital platform, especially young audiences.

Episode 1: Cai Luong Chi Bao - People's Artist Bach Tuyet shares 60 years of Cai Luong activities from the age of 17, the reason why Cai Luong goes along with the nation's history and national voice.  

Episode 2: Dr. Le Hong tells the story of the process of researching Cai Luong when seeing the birth and development of Cai Luong during the French colonial period, while sharing singing and performing with Cai Luong artists. in Vietnam in France during the study abroad days. 

Volume 3: Artist - Writer Nguyen Thi Minh Ngoc tells the story of her predestined relationship with Cai Luong artists, about the days when she learned to sing Cai Luong, used the Cai Luong gesture and came to practice Cai Luong as an artist. actor, screenwriter and director. 

Episode 4: Phan Khac Huy shares his predestined relationship with Cai Luong from the perspective of a young educator and researcher, the author of the book Luc Province Cam Ca and Coi Viet project. 

Episode 5: Director Leon Quang Le shares another perspective on Cai Luong through cinema, with a harmonious combination of stage and frame and his endless passion for Cai Luong. 

Episode 6: Director Nguyen Hong Dung shares about the freshness of Cai Luong compared to other traditional theater forms, about the concept of "real" and "beautiful" of Cai Luong proposed by artist Nam Chau. 

Episode 7: Artist Vo Minh Lam - artist Minh Lam tells a story about his chance to come to Cai Luong from his childhood days, about the family's Cai Luong tradition, luck in the profession and especially the spirit of learning. constantly to improve myself for the Cai Luong stage, to spread Cai Luong to young people.

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