Every performance at the Festival did not literally
address the theme of Peace, as that could have been boring.
You could find comedy, satire, fairy-tales, epics, modern stories
and musicals, on different themes done in a variety of styles,
something that you could only witness by traveling around the
globe. Isn't it terrific that you could experience all that
at one site in the heart of your city? And more than anything
else, it was through the coming together of artistes from all
over the world and audiences from diverse socio-economic backgrounds,
that the Festival promoted the ideals of peace.
The
5th International Puppet Festival Pakistan paid tribute to the
art of puppetry at the turn of the Millennium. From 11 to 22
November, it hosted some 250 foreign and 200 Pakistani puppeteers,
and put up 242 shows in eleven days. The RPTW had created a
magical city boasting 11 theatres with technical facilities
of international standard, and 22 performances planned for each
day of the Festival. Puppet groups from 20 countries and five
continents participated.