Hoàng Châu Ký (May 16, 1921 - January 31, 2008) from (Cẩm Kim [vi]; 1921 in Hội An, Quảng Nam, Đà Nẵng) was a cultural activist, revolutionary, writer, and researcher of Vietnamese folk theater. He was the first principal of the National Traditional Theatre School of Vietnam (now the Hanoi Academy of Theatre and Cinema), former General Secretary of the Vietnam Association of Theatre Artists, and former Director of the Institute of Theatre under the Ministry of Culture. He made significant contributions to the research, preservation, development, and promotion of the art of tuồng. His daughter is the poet Ý Nhi. He was an academic authority on tuồng drama,[1] in addition to setting new works such as a tuồng version of Pierre Corneille's Le Cid with Jean Claude Bourbault.[2]
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^Vietnamese theater - Page 15 Đình Quang - 1999 "Tuồng is a kind of drama of the national traditional theater. Born at the earliest time in Vietnam, it has ... According to Professor Hoàng Châu Ký (quoted above) Tuồng came into being under the Lê Dynasty. In his A Small Essay on ."
^Influence du théâtre franc̜aise sur l'art dramatique Vietnamien - Page 169 Nguyễn Hoàng, Viện sân khấu (Vietnam), Service culturel et de Coopération. Ambassade de France à Hà nội - 1999 "... en scène français, avec la pièce Le Cid, non pas comme pièce du théâtre parlé, mais cette fois-ci remanié en tuông par Hoàng Châu Ky, et porté sur la scène par Jean Claude Bourbault â Quâng Nam-Dà Nâng. L'année dernière, en 1986, "
