Voices in the crowd

"This festival was initially organized by the Central Academy of Drama and the Chinese Research Association of Dramatic Arts. It was taken over by the government due to lack of funding. It would have been better and more professional if the government had let the original organizers take the helm even though it's not bad as it is."

Li Longyin, deputy general manager of Beijing Performance & Arts Group

"The whole performance is colored with expressionism, with the orderly beauty of simplicity and tidiness, yet full of mystery and a sense of sacred ritual. The director standing downstage, who communicates and sings with his actors, seems to serve as an oracle from ancient Greece and, therefore, turns into a medium between man and god."