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The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Date: July 15-20 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Inside-Out Theatre

Price: 100-380 yuan

The Very Hungry Caterpillar is coming to enjoy its summer vocation with children in China! Adopted from a classic best-selling picture book, this innovative black-light puppetry will present its first show in Beijing. This caterpillar who has a red head, a green body and walks with its back arches high is created by Eric Carle, an internationally acclaimed children's literature author, in his vivid classic picture book The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The book has made a great hit throughout the world for 45 years with a book circulation over 20 million, and the caterpillar has already flown from the picture book to stage. To date, over 3000 performances have been presented, capturing children's hearts in many countries. The puppetry will be performed by Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia with great passion and its Chinese version is dubbed by Dashan - "the most famous foreigner in China". The show is a moving fairy tale book presented on the stage, enabling children to grow with the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is surely an amazing experience with black-light puppetry. Black-light puppetry treats light and color with special techniques so as to create fantasy effects. With only the light in front of the stage on, the actors wearing black costumes or clothes seem almost invisible against a stage background of total black. During the performance, the stage will boast with a variety of fantastic and gorgeous images because of the fluorescence-coated properties in actors' hands or the colors painted on actors' bodies.

Contact: 137-1610-0397