Beijing News (reporter Liu Zhen) On December 17, 2021, the 2021 "China Xichang Third Daliangshan International Drama Festival" officially opened in Xichang City, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province. With the theme of "Return and Gaze", this year's Drama Festival has a total of 61 performances from 34 plays in 12 categories across the country, more than 140 drama carnivals, as well as a number of drama seminars and "dialogues" with masters, and related drama activities such as drama classes and script reading sessions have also been opened.
According to reports, this year's Liangshan International Drama Festival inherits the concept of "landscape is the stage", and performs 61 performances of 12 types and 34 works in 12 types and 34 works in the "Fire Space" Torch Square, the "Water Space" Qionghai Hotel and the "Wood Space" Tingtao Valley.
This year's repertoire has its own highlights, including the appearance of the National Drama Theatre of China's drama "Copenhagen", the two versions of the drama "Hamlet" pioneer duel, and the China Children's Art Theatre's parent-child musical "Where is the Mother of the Little Butterfly?" ", Liangshan Cultural Tourism Group produced the national opera "Yi Hong", "Hear Soma" and other blockbuster plays; there are experimental opera "Old People's Heart" and other domestic new sharp forces.
Stills from "Hear Soma". Courtesy of the organizer
In addition, this year's drama festival has greatly increased the frequency of Huimin performances, from 17:00 to 21:00 every day, more than 140 drama carnival programs are held in the "Fire Space" Torch Square Drama Tent and Xingmei 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 harmonica past concerts, the "Youth Without Limits" Extreme Sports Competition, the Hi Hi Life Rap Ceremony, the Drama Carnival Night, the Tibetan Yi Dong Naxi and other ethnic minority art performances.
Drama classroom scene of the previous Daliangshan International Drama Festival. Courtesy of the organizer
It is reported that on December 19, in the Lufeng Theater, Pu Cunxin, Li Ting, Wang Xiaoying, Li Bonan, Zhao Miao and other initiators of the Daliangshan International Theatre Festival will connect the network with Tobias Bjangkoni, Director General of the International Theatre Association ITI, Lee Mai, Director of Broadway Theater outside New York, Park Jong-kuan, Chairman of the Korean Culture and Arts Committee, Moira Finuken, Head of Melbourne Felican Theatre, Nixon Pitaka, General Manager of the Avignon OFF Theatre Foundation in France, and other international theater celebrities to "The Role of Theater in the City" Topics such as "Theatre and The City" and "Theatre and the Audience and the Future in Development" are held online. After this, the "Academic Seminar on the Formation and Development of the Chinese Drama Director School", "The Whispers of Daliangshan - Dancing in a New Era and Leaping to a New Peak", "The Development and Enlightenment of National Performing Arts" and other theme exchanges will also explore the infinite possibilities of future drama.
Beijing News reporter Liu Zhen
Edited by Xu Meilin Proofreader Zhao Lin