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Performance period: October 28 - November 14
Venue: Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center
The four-act drama "Room" is divided into four age stages of two generations of women, and the actors Li Chentao and Liu Weichen of shanghai Dramatic Arts Center interpret the story of an ordinary mother and daughter growing up together by portraying the roles of two independent women with their own desires and desires. The play captures fragments of their lives over the past twenty years, vividly portraying the bondage, influence and mutual support between women.
"Room" debuted on stage in 2018. Screenwriter and director Chen Tiantian focused more on private emotions at the beginning of the creation of the script, and in the past three years, the entire social environment has changed subtly, and understanding the differences, contradictions and commonalities between women of different generations has become an opportunity to explore gender issues in depth. Chen Tiantian said that he hopes that "Room" can promote mutual understanding between contemporary women and mothers, "I can't use maternal love to bind and ask any woman to give up herself, but please don't deny the spontaneity and greatness of maternal love." ”
Performance time: November 6 to November 14
Venue: Shanghai Grand Theatre, Buick Middle Theater
On the seventh day of the first month of July, a prince was born in Jinling City. He was the sixth in line, with a heavy eye, and it is said that people born with heavy pupils have the sacred mission of sanctifying kings. Paradoxically, Li Congjia, who should become a "saint", is a romantic and amorous poet who has no intention of sitting on the dragon chair, achieving hegemony, and is obsessed with literature and art, how can he shoulder the burden of the Southern Tang Dynasty monarch, turn the tide in the chaotic world, and protect Jiangnan from being ravaged by Song Kuangyin's iron horse? The musical "Southern Tang Hou Lord" took this as inspiration to create the two roles of Li Congjia and Li Yu, they were the ab faces of the Southern Tang Hou Lord, one gentle and kind, one mature and gloomy, after a series of changes such as the blood murder case around him, the bizarre death of the eldest brother, the manipulated marriage, etc., Li Congjia had no choice but to ascend to the throne and become Li Yu, but he could only watch the ideal of the "Taiping People" shatter a little bit...
In 2019, the first "Chinese Original Musical Theater Incubation Program" was held, and "Southern Tang Hou Lord" stood out from 77 works, and the two contradictory character identities of the last king of the Southern Tang Dynasty and the ancient poet suddenly captured everyone's curiosity. After three years of incubation, we finally met the audience in November this year. The music of the play blends classical charm and contemporary pop music styles, whether it is the singing section "The Seventh of The First Month of July" with distinct national tonal colors, the singing segment "Proverbs: Mo Qing Jiangnan Affair", or the National Style Trap Singing Section "Dragon Chair Is There" with guzheng and pipa as the mainstay, or the "Yulou Spring - Evening Dress At the Beginning of Ming Muscle Snow" with the addition of future bass and fairy spirits, all of which are impressive.
Performance time: November 27-28
Venue: 1862 Fashion Arts Center
Twenty-four years of the Republic of China, late spring and early summer. Ding Xilin, director of the Institute of Physics of the Academia Sinica, was buried in the ledger of scientific research funds and the script of the one-act play, and Gu Jingwei, the only female researcher in the institute, ushered in Qu Jianxiong, an assistant with a difficult temper. At a time when scientific research is in a precarious and chaotic world, the old has been broken, but the new has not yet been completed. This pair of young physicists worked hand in hand to resist the ups and downs, and also influenced each other's lives in just one year of common time...
The three protagonists in "Spring Death" all have historical archetypes, the most famous of which is Wu Jianxiong, a famous physicist and known as the "Lady curie of the East". The year 1935 in which the story takes place is a slightly lonely year in Wu Jianxiong's life. The year before, she graduated from the Physics Department of Chuo University and was hired as a teaching assistant at Zhejiang University; the following year, she went to the United States, marking an important turning point in her academic career. So who did she meet in the seemingly uneventful year of 1935? What happened? What decisions were made? How did these bits and pieces of daily life affect her later life? "Spring Death" starts from these questions and tries to restore and answer the answers scattered in the past.
Performance period: November 26 - December 5
Venue: SAIC Shanghai Culture Square
The musical Romeo and Juliet premiered in Paris in 2001 and became the most popular French musical in the world. It may also be the first French-language musical that many Chinese audiences have come into contact with. In 2012, Romeo and Juliet first appeared in the field of vision of Chinese audiences. After that, the show toured China in 2016, 2018 and 2019. In November, Romeo and Juliet will renew the frontier with the Shanghai Cultural Square in a special way: the 11th language version of the play, the Chinese version, will meet the audience. The Chinese version of "Luo Zhu" brings together the first-class teams of China and France, directed and choreographed by the famous French choreographer Carl Portal, Liu Zhuo as the music director and arranger, Liang Mang as the lyrics director and translator, and the musical theater actors Ayunga and Zhang Huifang as the lead actors.
The Chinese version of "Luo Zhu" is Liu Zhuo's first participation in the production of musicals, and he expressed the hope that he can make arrangements that are more in line with the era and the aesthetics of Chinese audiences without destroying the overall sense of atmosphere. Liang Mang believes that "Luo Zhu" is not a fairy tale that only exists in the theatrical world, it has the power to transcend culture and times, "This story has a lot of practical significance and universal emotions, even if it is put into modern society, it is completely universal and empathetic." The power and status, despair and hope, and love told in the play are not only the love of men and women, but also a kind of love that applies to all mankind, although these contents are not from your living environment, but its core is the same, regardless of cultural differences and backgrounds, I believe that people who know it will be moved by it. ”
Performance period: November 24 - November 28
Venue: Beijing Tianqiao Art Center - Grand Theatre
After nearly two years of preparation, writer Liu Zhenyun's novel "I Am Not Pan Jinlian" will be put on the drama stage for the first time by the Gulouxi drama, which is also the second time that the main creative team has cooperated with Liu Zhenyun after the drama "One Sentence Top 10,000 Sentences".
In the original work, Liu Zhenyun describes a tragedy about a woman: Li Xuelian, a rural woman who has been wronged by Pan Jinlian, has experienced a ridiculous divorce case. She wanted to prove that the previous divorce was fake, and she also had to prove that she was not Pan Jinlian, so she embarked on the road of filing a complaint for 20 years. The drama version of "I Am Not Pan Jinlian" has been richly adapted while retaining the profound absurdity and precious female perspective of the original work, so that the traditional opera image and the contemporary drama image collide in the play, and also allows the audience to see the many female aspects of Chinese history and culture from the role of Li Xuelian.
Performance period: November 17 - November 28
Venue: Poly Theatre
In 1903, Yu Geng left as a Western envoy and returned to the capital, and Deling and Rong Ling returned to China with their father. Soon, Empress Dowager Cixi summoned her second daughter as a "female official of the Imperial Front", and Princess Deling, who was also an interpreter for Empress Dowager Cixi, accompanied by Lafayette day and night. The intelligent and cheerful Deling brought light and vitality to the Forbidden City, where the palace gates were locked, and also brought a little relief to the puppet-like Guangxu. She used her wisdom to interpret the intermingling of Eastern and Western cultures, and the relationship between her and Cixi, one old, one young, one dignified and one humble, also triggered a series of ridiculous and sad stories.
Created by playwright Ho Ji Ping, the play "Deling and Cixi" premiered in Hong Kong in 1998 and debuted in Chinese mainland in 2008, winning five awards at the Hong Kong Stage Drama Awards for "Best Overall Performance", "Best Screenplay", "Best Director", "Best Costume Design" and "Top Ten Most Popular Productions". The upcoming drama to be released in November will be starring Jiang Shan, Zheng Yunlong and Lang Ling.
Performance time: November 11 - November 14
Venue: National Centre for the Performing Arts - Drama Theatre
"Jani Skiki" is a masterpiece by the Italian opera master Puccini, and together with his other two works, The Coat and Sister Angelica, are often performed as triptychs. The will forger GianniSkiki, described in the 30th line of Dante's Divine Comedy in Hell, was the inspiration for Puccini's creation of this work. In the story, the famous florentine giant Giadoñati Buoso died of illness, and the greedy relatives and friends rushed to his home to divide up the inheritance, but Buoso unexpectedly made a will to donate all the huge property to the church, and the crowd was disappointed, and the conflict, pain and loss of control for the property began.
Jani Skiki is regarded as Puccini's "most Italian" work, not only because the story takes place in Italy, but also because its music is full of Mediterranean vibrancy and vitality, injecting a personal style of humor into Italian burlesque opera. Among them, the aria "My Dear Daddy" is the highlight of the whole play, and it is also one of the must-sing songs for the lyrical soprano. More than a dozen characters are almost never played, and all the plot ups and downs are realized in the music.
Performance period: November 27 - November 28
Venue: Beijing Tianqiao Art Center - Little Theater
It's a story about "getting old". Director Wang Tingting starts from the confusion of young people about the elderly and presents the lives of the elderly in a very simple way to the audience. To be precise, this is a drama with almost no climax and no story, it only tells the original face of life after people grow old, but it is also the stage of life that everyone will eventually experience. In the story, Lao Gu and Lao Wu lived a pinpoint life against Mai Mang, and with the weakening of their bodies and the aggravation of their illness, they encountered more and more troubles, and even the forty-fifth year of marriage became the first year of divorce.
It is worth mentioning that the play has a strong documentary from the beginning of its creation. In the three years of creation, the main creative team spent a year and a half interviewing nearly 100 elderly people, walking into their real lives and listening to their stories. The old Gu in the play is not only a character on the stage, but also a grandmother, grandmother or mother in everyone's life. The show is asking all young audiences: How do we learn to grow old, and what does it mean to get old?