Lộng Chương

Lộng Chương (b. Nguyễn Văn Hiền, Hải Dương province 2/5/1918 - 8/20/2003) was a Vietnamese playwright, writer, screenwriter and director in both film and theater. If one counts only Vietnamese artists growing up from times of French Indochina onwards, Lộng Chương's generation of playwrights (including Học Phi, Bưu Tiến, Nguyễn Văn Niêm,...) can be considered the first. During his ten years of participating in the resistance war against French colonialists, Lộng Chương composed 17 short plays. Among them are: Lý Thới (1948), Du kích thôn Đồi (1952), Đoàn quân tóc trắng (1953),... In the decade following Independence Day in 1945, during the struggle against forced migration, he produced a number of other plays: Nhỡ chuyến tàu bay, Ma hiện, Giữa đường, Mưu giặc… Later on in his career, he would write and revise nearly 100 plays, working with many genres of Vietnamese theater: oral, musical, puppetry... Apart from becoming stage productions, his plays are also printed into books and broadcast on Voice of Vietnam (VOV).