A natural wave of drama

The premiere performance of the festival will be The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, one of the most famous works of Nobel laureate and Austrian playwright Peter Handke. Directed by German director Robert Schuster, it has no dialogue and instead, surreal live sound effects replace language and become the narrative tool for the entire play.

Two-hundred sets of imaginative costumes and 200 bizarre props lead the audience on a journey through countless parallel universes. Meanwhile, 13 actors from around the world create cross-racial and cross-cultural collisions and interactions.

Meng himself will present his new play Twelve Love Poems to the festival. Adapted from the works of Moliere, the French "father of comedy", Chilean romantic poet Pablo Neruda and French contemporary literary existentialist writer Albert Camus, the play tells of the difficulties in finding love faced by two pairs of happy enemies and a musician pretending to be stubborn.