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Ten-minute play festival with live performances of original scripts by local playwrights, staged in Beijing on November 7.
Middle Kingdom Creatives presents Beijing Blitz, a festival of ten-minute plays. The programme is built from original, unpublished scripts submitted by playwrights, and the listing describes the evening as an opportunity to see local theatrical talent on stage. The performances take place on 7 November 2026, starting at 18:00. No end time is given, and the listing does not say how many plays are in the programme or in what language they are performed.
This is the one part of the festival with a firm published date. Playwrights are invited to submit original, unpublished play scripts by 31 August 2026. The full festival rules are not reproduced in the listing; it directs prospective entrants to scan a QR code on the event page for the rules and further information. There is no published email address, submission portal, or entry fee, and the listing does not state whether submissions are open to writers outside China or whether scripts must be in English or Chinese.
If you are hoping to attend rather than submit, be aware that the organisers have published almost nothing about access. The listing gives no venue and no address. Ticket prices have not been published, nor has any indication of whether the performances are ticketed at all, free, or open to the general public. There is no stated booking method, no on-sale date, and no capacity figure.
For travellers who need to plan around the practicalities, the specific questions are all unanswered. The organisers have not said whether booking requires WeChat, a mainland Chinese mobile number, or real-name registration with a passport or ID number, and they have not said whether foreign visitors can buy tickets. The only route to further detail that the listing offers is the QR code on the event page, and the listing does not specify which app is needed to read it or where it leads. Anyone planning a trip around this event should treat attendance as unconfirmed until the organisers publish more.
The details above are taken from the event listing on theBeijinger, where Beijing Blitz is filed under Stage and marked as an Editor's Pick. Everything not stated here — venue, tickets, running time, programme, language — was absent from that listing at the time of writing rather than omitted for brevity.
This entry was compiled automatically from the organiser's own page and every date in it was checked back against that page before publishing. Nobody from our team has been to this one, and we have not called the organisers — where they have not published something, this page says so rather than filling the gap.
Status: Venue not stated in source. Start time given as '18:00 pm' with no end time; end date assumed same day as the single listed performance date. No Chinese name appears in the text. Access inferred from 'Scan the QR code for more information and festival rules' — no ticketing or registration details given. August 31, 2026 is the script submission deadline for playwrights, not an event date. Source: the organiser's own page, fetched and verified on 2026-09-13 (https://www.thebeijinger.com/events/2026/aug/beijing-blitz) · checked 2026-09-13