Edinburgh Festival Fringe Musicals and Opera

The Story of the Stone

The Northern Kunqu Opera Theatre with WanQuanZhunBei (China)
C ARTS | C venues | C alto 4, 5 Aug
theatre 14.00 1hr
August 2025
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A contemporary Kunqu opera adaptation of the Chinese classic Dream of the Red Chamber. Jia Baoyu, once a sentient stone, is reborn and guided by Buddhist and Daoist forces to realise the world is empty of permanent identity and intrinsic independence. Wang Pushi, a fourth-generation actor of the Northern Kunqu Opera Theatre, mirrors this awakening through his performance, discovering a generative and empowering transcendence of emptiness. A dynamic fusion of classic Kunqu with modern experimental theatre, immersive media and slow rock music. Performed in Mandarin and English, with English surtitles.

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