Fantasy play opens international puppetry show in capital

The 2024 Beijing International Puppet Festival opened at the Nanluo Theater in Beijing on Friday and will run through to Oct 6.

The festival is being hosted by Beijing Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and organized by Beijing Theatre Association and Xinianxing (Beijing) Cultural Communication Co Ltd.

Starfish, a Sino-French collaborative play by Hanfeizi Shadow Puppet Theater, kicked off the festival as the opening production. Its story is based on the eponymous fantasy novel by author Zhou Xiaofeng.