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Kōrero: Vietnamese

The boy and the bamboo flute

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The boy and the bamboo flute

Vietnamese actor Huong Nguyen and Cambodian actor Tevi Fanning act out a scene from the Vietnamese children’s play The boy and the bamboo flute in Wellington in 1999. Featuring mime, masks, a boy, a flute, a princess and an ogre, the play was written by an Australian Vietnamese artist. Many New Zealand Vietnamese migrants have moved to Sydney and Melbourne to take advantage of the links offered by the larger Vietnamese communities there.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1999/1926/31A

by John Nicholson

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Trung Tran, Vietnamese – Culture, language and work, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/999/the-boy-and-the-bamboo-flute (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Trung Tran, i tāngia i te 4 March 2009, updated 1 August 2024.