We went this weekend to the Saigon Water Puppet theater show at the Cyclorama downtown, a huge dome like building on Tremont Street. The folk art has been practiced for over a thousand years and is unique to Viet Nam. The puppeteers stand in a pool of water and are concealed behind a backdrop - a fake grass curtain in this case, and they manipulate the puppets on long bamboo rods. The stories told thru the puppetry are of rural life - harvest in the rice fields, oxen plowing the fields, farmers chasing a fox away from a duck. I loved it. In some vignettes, "fabulous" animals - unicorn and dragon danced and submerged quietly into the deeps of the water upon making their stage exit. Something really magical about that. When the puppeteers came out behind the backdrop at the end of the performance to take their bows, they drifted out quietly, like the puppets coming out from behind the screen and on to the water stage.