A play based on real stories about Vietnamese volunteer soldiers in Laos during wartime took stage at the Lao national cultural centre in Vientiane on July 14.
A scene of the play "Sharing a trench" during its premier in Laos (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – A play based on real stories about Vietnamese volunteersoldiers in Laos during wartime took stage at the Lao national cultural centrein Vientiane on July 14.
Withits script written by renowned Lao artist Hongnakhon Thumphala, the play, named“Sharing a trench”, depicts the friendship and mutual support between Lao andVietnamese soldiers while protecting a strategic spot in the northern Laoprovince of Xiengkhuang in 1972. In their last battle together, the Vietnamesesoldier takes a fatal bullet for his Lao companion, who survives and continuesto fight till victory.
Theplay ran in 90 minutes with the participation of 80 actors and actresses,making it one of the biggest plays Laos has conducted this year.
Audiencesfilled the centre to watch the play, which was specially arranged by theperforming art department under the Lao Ministry of Information, Culture andTourism to praise the two countries’ solidarity and amity.
Theministry said “Sharing a trench” will be staged in other provinces andcities across Laos in the coming time.-VNA
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A scene of the play "Sharing a trench" during its premier in Laos (Photo: VNA) 
