My Vlog: 'Playing' with puppets and puppeteers at the Wuzhen Theatre Festival
Updated 14:12, 08-Nov-2019
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Zigmund Follies is a French finger puppet play originally written in 1983 and revamped in 2000, incorporating more stage tools such as lighting, music, and full-body acting scenes as opposed to only hand puppets. The mix of all of these elements has helped introduce this seemingly timeless play to modern-day audiences.

Follow CGTN reporter Oscar Margain as he gets an exclusive look behind the scenes of Zigmund Follies, a unique French puppet show that takes audiences inside the complexities of the human psyche and learns how puppeteers manage to stay relevant in today's art world.