Best places: Performing arts theaters in Louangphrabang, Laos

👍👍 Extremely intimate theatre setting with seating for about 25 patrons. This is a two-person show with a storyteller and musician, who plays a traditional Lao woodwind instrument. Colourful Lao folktales told with great animated energy (though some words get lost due to the tellers' delivery style)....

👍 Comparisons with modern, Western, highly polished (and rewarded) performance art are inappropriate and, really, irrelevant. The performance seemed to be a celebration of traditional Laos culture, rather than an attempt to out-perform the Bolshoi ballet! I thoroughly enjoyed seeing what was, presum...