I was looking at a news source from Belgium called The Bulletin, an English language magazine that covers news from Belgium and Brussels, the capital of Belgium. One of the articles I clicked on was about an international marionette festival called the Jem Marionette Festival. The theater they performed at is called the Théâtre Royal du Peruchet, where other puppet shows have been staged since 1929. In 1938, it was turned into an international puppet museum. There are different shows throughout the performance dates with languages in English, Czech, French, Italian, Slovenian, and some are even performed without dialogue. The director of the festival explained that children would be able to follow the storytelling no matter what language it was being told in. He believes puppetry is not just string and puppets, it's a way to "discover another imaginary of objects."
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