Carnival Wild Duck Lake, an immersive play jointly produced by the China Puppet Art Theater and the Beijing Wild Duck Lake National Wetland Park, was launched on April 27. 

Sitting at the foot of the Badaling section of the Great Wall in the suburbs of Beijing, the park covers an area of 283.4 hectares. It lies in the buffer zone of the Wild Duck Lake Wetland, the largest wetland nature reserve in the capital. Every year, a swirl of migratory birds stops here to rest, breed or winter.

Killing two birds with one stone—entertainment and education, Carnival Wild Duck Lake draws on real events conveying the harmonious coexistence of animals and humans in the wetland and weaves these together into a science-based play. The first public performance took to the stage on May 1. The play will become a regular show at the park—not a bird of passage. 

(Text and photos by Wei Yao)

Copyedited by Elsbeth van Paridon

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