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The 2024 Peiyuan Art Festival, gathering theater lovers, was held in Beijing from Sept 20 to 22.

Since 2019, Peiyuan has been focused on supporting market-oriented productions with the help of

So far, 147 have been conceived and 64 of those works have been staged in theaters in the country.

During the festival, a Chinese play, Fan Shan Hai, or Alley-Oop, by scriptwriter and director Zhu Hongxuan, was staged as the opening production. It tells the story of a female basketball team set against the historical backdrop of the Minguo period (1912-49).

By working with the Beijing Quju Opera Troupe, the platform also produced a Quju opera work, The Life of Mine, based on renowned Chinese writer Lao She's novel of the same name, telling the sad story of a lowly ranked policeman in Beijing during the early 20th century. In 1952, Lao She wrote a play, The Willow Well, in an art form that he invented, based on Beijing's Quyi art, and named it Quju Opera.

The festival saw 20 new theatrical works being premiered , some still being worked on, that covered a wide range of art forms, including musical, Yueju Opera and dance.