PAPA's Time Machine is director Maleonn’s first dramatic work. The script is based on the common life experience of Maleonn and his father. Papa's Time Machine is a nonconventional puppet performance, leading audience into a world brimming with poetic fantasies. The ingenious combination of live performance and puppet show brings the charm of installation art, moving images and live music performance into full play, imbuing the once familiar puppet show with a contemporary touch.

Maleonn is one of the most influential visual artists working in China today. He has held solo exhibitions in over thirty countries around the world by now, such as in France, Britain, Italy and Germany. His work is reported frequently by important international medias such as The Guardian, Daily Mail and BBC.

After 2 years of production research, Maleonn led the team to combine the performance of  human actors and puppets, rendering a vivid lifelike depiction of a child's great childhood and family harmon. The team has invited artists from Hungary and Germany to coproduce, and has taken two years to manufacture more than ten large puppets which are in the same proportion of life and consist of more than 1200 parts.

PAPA's Time Machine is the Commissioned work of this year's China Shanghai International Arts Festival.The work was selected as recommend performance by the International Society for the Performing Arts in its 2016 annual meeting.In the past 10 years, Papa's Time Machine was the only selected Chinese drama works, which was scored the first by the judges and has attracted wide attention because of its outstanding performance.