Socially Relevant Themes Get A Stage

The Wuzhen Festival took the theater world by storm when it was launched in 2013 with its passion and professionalism. It's charting a new course under Meng Jinghui, its artistic director. Raymond Zhou reports.

On the day the Fourth Wuzhen Theater Festival opened, on Oct 13, Dario Fo died.

News of the Italian playwright's death shocked Meng Jinghui, who is artistic director of this year's festival. He Had Two Pistols with White and Black Eyes, a piece written by Fo in 1960, was going to play at the open-air Water Theater the next day, directed by none other than Meng himself.