On March 2, with the drama "Fog Chongqing" staged at the Capital Theatre, the 2021 National Drama Exhibition Season once again sounded the "rallying call", and from March to April, eight wonderful dramas from all over the country will be staged in a concentrated manner.
"Foggy Chongqing"
With the theme of "Drama in the City, City in the Play", through national solicitation, local recommendation and expert review, a number of well-thoughted, well-produced and artistically exquisite theater plays were selected from 47 plays selected from 29 provinces and cities across the country to be displayed in Beijing. The eight major plays of "Fog Chongqing", "Lu Yao", "Teacher Gui Mei", "Looking for Her Fang Traces Zhang Ailing", "Hamlet", "Retrograde", "Outpost" and "Stars Tonight" were staged this time, respectively, from chongqing Municipal Drama Theatre, Xi'an Drama Theatre, Anhui Provincial Drama Theatre, Yunnan Provincial Drama Theatre, Zhejiang Provincial Drama Troupe, Shanghai Theater Academy, Tibet Autonomous Region Repertory Theatre, Wuhan People's Art Theatre, these theaters have strong strength, not only have produced representative plays in the history of drama, but also gathered their own elite forces in this performance.
"Stars Tonight"
These works continue to make breakthroughs in creation and stage form, pioneering and innovating, such as the Chinese-Tibetan bilingual version of the drama "Hamlet" presented in Mandarin and Tibetan, in Shakespeare's words and plays into the Tibetan folk dance, folk songs and other Tibetan cultural elements, adding more national colors in the world's masterpieces, so that classics and innovation complement each other; "Looking for Her Fang, Zhang Ailing" cleverly debuts Zhang Ailing and her classic novels "Half Life", "Red Roses and White Roses", "Little Reunion" in the various women on the same stage, And with the help of their stories, tell Zhang Ailing's legendary life full of love and hate entanglement; "Outpost" breaks through the mode of traditional drama performance, adopts the innovative "double-line nested" structure of the drama stage, carefully constructs the cross-time dialogue between young people of three different eras, adheres to the realistic stance, and has certain modernist characteristics; all the actors in the original anti-epidemic drama "Retrograde" are experiencers of the epidemic, they participated in the second creation in the performance, and integrated personal feelings and profound experiences. It can be called a superior work that is both documentary and lyrical.
Hamlet
The "Drama Run Axis" theme display activity will also be launched in March. The event integrates art into the central axis architecture, realizes the integration of excellent repertoire fragments with the central axis scenes, creates a new scene of immersive environmental performance, the collision of different theatrical forms of Chinese and Western, ancient and modern, and the integration of performance forms, and renews the new vitality of the central axis culture. At that time, the theme activity of "Bells, Drums, Qinser, East and West Blending" where the theater cultures of the East and the West collide will be launched in the Bell and Drum Tower, the theme activity of "Drama Zhengyang, Song and Dance Rising" where theater artists and style dancers meet will be launched at Qianmen, and the theme activity of "Wuding Qiankun, Yongding Antai" where drama and martial arts meet will be launched at Yongding Gate to activate the new momentum of the central axis of performing arts.