BEIJING, July 25 (Xinhua) -- A children's play titled "Adventures of Alfa Planet", staged Wednesday in Beijing, brought environmental protection awareness to Chinese youths through the use of puppets.
As a part of the 9th China Children's Theater Festival, the 75-minute play unfurls with an intense and exciting plot. The protagonist finds a beautiful and abundant parallel universe, Alfa Planet, deemed to have been only a legend, however later discovered it had been heavily polluted.
The performance is intertwined with puppetry, a traditional Chinese art performance, to teach young children the importance of protecting the environment, as well as encourage them to not fear failure.
Puppet masks, wooden-rod puppets and sock puppets are used in the play to display the figures' transformation of size.
Led by the China National Theater for Children, the 37-day children's theater festival opened on July 6 and will feature 191 performances of 57 different children's plays.
