Cover news reporter Xun Chao
On December 17, 2021, the 3rd Daliangshan International Drama Festival in Xichang, China was officially opened. With the theme of "Return and Gaze", this year's drama festival has a total of 61 performances from 12 categories and 34 plays from all over the country, more than 140 drama carnivals meet the streets, many drama seminars and masters "dialogue", as well as drama classes, script reading sessions, etc.
61 offline performances are coming
As the only drama festival in western China and the world's winter theater festival, the Daliangshan International Theater Festival has now become an independent intellectual property and cultural tourism IP with international influence.
Based on the seven major content fulcrums of drama exhibition, drama forum, drama incubation, drama education, drama cultural creation, drama life, and theater tourism, the third theater festival advocates the socialization of drama creation and the popularization of theater appreciation, while focusing on the elements of traditional Chinese opera, red classics and ethnic diversity, showing the charm of the national tide, and leading the high-quality development of the performing arts, film and television, and art education industries.
At the same time, this year's Daliangshan International Drama Festival also inherits the concept of "landscape is the stage", and performs 61 performances of 34 works of 12 types and 34 works in the "Fire Space" Torch Square, the "Water Space" Qionghai Hotel and the "Wood Space" Tingtao Valley, with the Golden Eagle Theater, the Ajayan Theater, the Shanhai Theater, the Tingtao Small Theater, the Lufeng Theater, the Valley Theater and other performance venues.
This year's repertoire includes the appearance of the Drama "Copenhagen" by the National Drama Theatre of China, the pioneer duel of the two versions of the drama "Hamlet", and the parent-child musical "Where is the Mother of the Little Butterfly" of the China Children's Art Theatre? and the national opera "Yi Hong" and "Hearing Soma" produced by Liangshan Cultural Tourism Group, as well as domestic cutting-edge forces such as the experimental opera "Old People's Heart", fully demonstrating the rich connotation and multiple dimensions of Chinese drama.
The quality of online drama festivals continues
In addition to offline physical performances, the "Online Drama Festival" - "Li Bai" by Beijing Renyi, "Bitter and Sweet" by Macao Youth, "Double Maple" by Peking University Nine-Person Drama Society, and "Wife's Drawer" by South Korea's ONE Theatre Company will also provide a rich audio-visual feast for the majority of theater lovers.
In addition, this year's drama festival has also greatly increased the frequency of Huimin performances, every day from 17:00 to 21:00, more than 140 drama carnival programs will be held in the "Fire Space" Torch Square drama tent and Star Beauty Square. Among them, there is the dance "Hua'er", which won the "Ma Lanhua" Award of the Fourth Hui Dance Competition, the innovative interpretation of Chinese classical instruments by The Frenchman Zhang Si'an, who loves ancient Chinese poetry, as well as opera fragments such as the Kunqu opera "Peony Pavilion" and the Yu opera "Mulan", as well as artistic performances such as harmonica past concerts, "Youth Without Limits" Extreme Sports Competition, Hi Hi Life Rap Ceremony, and Drama Carnival Night.
What is more worth mentioning is that on December 19, Pu Cunxin, Li Ting, Wang Xiaoying, Li Bonan, Zhao Miao and other initiators of the Daliangshan International Drama Festival will connect many international theater celebrities and conduct online dialogues with themes such as "the role of theater in the city", "drama and the city", "theater and the audience and the future in development", etc., to find the resonance point between drama and the times. Theme exchanges such as "Academic Seminar on the Formation and Development of the Chinese Drama Director School", "Whispers of Daliangshan - Dancing in a New Era and Leaping to a New Peak", "The Development and Enlightenment of National Drama Art" and other theme exchanges will also explore the infinite possibilities of future drama.