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<h3>[Shanghai].</h3>
<h3>Drama "Ice Peacock"</h3>
Performance period: October 14 - October 24
Venue: Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center
The story of Ice Peacock begins with a murder. The body of a female star is found, and seven parties from different professions and backgrounds appear: doctors who have worked too long overtime and are on the verge of mental breakdown; police officers who are the mainstay of the department but neglect to take care of their children at home; mothers who have lost their daughters and are in endless pain; journalists who have been following interviews for a long time but can no longer talk like friends; husbands who can only say goodbye to their dead wives in a reality show; little nurses who resign... What do they have to do with female celebrities, and how will the mystery of this murder be revealed?
The drama "Ice Peacock" is the first work successfully incubated by the "New Text Incubation" program of Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center. According to producer Yi Wei, this will be a "sudden" original innovative drama in the drama market in the second half of the year, and what the audience will see in "Ice Peacock" is that "real communication is interrupted by stylized narratives, virtual live broadcast pictures are reflected in real scenes, and the performance style of variety has become a certain expression vocabulary." Everything on stage is playing, but the basis of everything is reality. ”
<h3>Liu Cixin science fiction small theater "Mountain"</h3>
Performance period: October 14 - November 7
Venue: Light and Shadow Workshop, Jing Theater
Mountaineer Feng Fan organized a climb to Mount Everest during his college years, which accidentally led to the death of four members of the team. Feeling guilty, he decided to stay away from the land and never climb a mountain for the rest of his life. After becoming a marine geologist, he sailed in the Pacific Ocean on a geological research vessel, just when a spaceship from a distant planet descended on Earth, and the huge gravitational pull of the spacecraft set off a mountain higher than Mount Everest in the Pacific Ocean. In the face of this water mountain, Feng Fan made a crazy decision - he wanted to climb this mountain in the last moment of his life...
The stage play "Mountain" is adapted from Liu Cixin's short story of the same name. Some commentators believe that Liu Cixin is good at using contrast in stories, and usually sees the big in the small. In "Mountain", the story of Feng Fanshan and the story of aliens come together, which is also a contrast: the same is facing the choice of survival, the different choices of humans and aliens, what kind of human nature will be revealed?
<h3>The Broadway suspense thriller comedy Death Trap</h3>
Performance period: October 21 - October 25
Venue: Hongqiao Art Center
Broadway's famous suspense playwright Sidney has exhausted his talents. When he saw the suspense drama "Death Trap" created by his student Clifford, he immediately realized that it would become the best-grossing drama on Broadway, so he had an evil idea: to lure Clifford to his home in the name of helping to revise the script, kill him, and take the script for himself. Clifford gladly travels to Sidney's home and is horrified to learn of Sidney's evil plan, Hisra, but things turn out completely unexpectedly, the planned "death trap" fails immediately, and the larger conspiracy seems to be lurking, who will eventually step into the real death trap?
Death Trap is a 1978 play by renowned American thriller Ira Levin that holds the record for the longest-running thriller suspense drama on Broadway, and in 1982 it was adapted into a film of the same name, starring Christopher Reeve and Michael Caine. In 2011, the Chinese version of "Death Trap" was performed in Shanghai for 21 consecutive performances, and the venue was full. Ten years later, the show will come to Shanghai again.
<h3>Wan Qian and Song Yang starred in the drama "Love in the Fallen City"</h3>
Performance period: October 27 - October 31
Venue: Shanghai Grand Theatre
In a chaotic era, the white tassel who experienced a failed marriage met Fan Liuyuan, a clumsy boy who was dashing and golden, and the emotions that surged between the two of them were true and false, ambiguous, knowing that a sudden war made the two really enter the marriage, creating a "love in the city". "Allure of Love" is one of Zhang Ailing's most famous short stories. Zhang Ailing is good at describing the love entanglement of urban men and women, and the complex human nature in the fireworks of the world. In the view of Xu Zidong, a professor at the Department of Chinese at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, Zhang Ailing's way of describing love is different from many other writers of the same era, although her white tassel does not talk about enlightenment, spiritual love, poetry and big problems in life, it is all small details of life, and there are calculations to find "meal tickets" in love, but she does have a fairly accurate grasp of the details of life, and she has a rather sharp observation of women's instinctive attempts to compete for sovereignty in intimate relationships.
The drama "Love in the City" starring Wan Qian and Song Yang, this is the first time Ye Jintian directed the work, he will be presented through the "film" + "stage" way, the huge turntable device combined with the media image switching of the stream of consciousness lens, greatly extending the limited theater stage space. "Love in the Fallen City" does not make major changes in the text, but is highly faithful to the original work. And through multimedia video, stage performances, costume styling to create the latest "panoramic theater aesthetics".
<h3>[Beijing].</h3>
<h3>Stage play "Two Capitals and Fifteen Days"</h3>
Performance time: October 22nd - October 24th
Venue: Beijing Tianqiao Art Center - Grand Theatre
The stage play "Fifteen Days of Two Capitals" is based on real history and tells a thrilling story. In the first year of Hong Xi, Emperor Zhu Gaozi was critically ill, and at this time, the "dragon ship" of The Crown Prince Zhu Zhanji, who was about to arrive in Nanjing to inspect the earthquake disaster, also exploded. Fortunately, the prince was rescued by Wu Dingyuan, a small nanjing catcher, and with the assistance of the small sesame official Yu Qian and the female physician Su Jingxi, the four of them began a desperate journey along the Cao River.
The drama is in line with Ma Boyong's novel of the same name, which takes place along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal to show the audience the customs and humanities on both sides of the canal, and also outlines a vivid picture of the life of the city in the Ming Dynasty. It is worth mentioning that "Fifteen Days of Two Capitals" breaks through the production methods of traditional stage dramas and integrates various artistic elements such as martial arts, dance, and opera. Director Gao Zhisen uses the concept of "film sense", uses multimedia throughout the process, adopts film and television shooting and related techniques, makes the stage present three-sided images, and creates a sense of immersion in the repertoire, which is also more in line with the aesthetic tastes of contemporary young people.
<h3>Wang Xuexi and Zhou Minghan starred in the contemporary drama "Daddy's Bed"</h3>
Performance period: October 28 - October 31
Venue: National Centre for the Performing Arts - Drama Theatre
"Daddy's Bed" is a masterpiece by the famous Dutch contemporary playwright Magne van Den Borg, adapted locally by The Theater, and invited German directors and French stage designers, as well as Chinese actor Wang Xuexi and Shanghai Theater Academy acting teacher Zhou Minghan to jointly create. The story tells the story of a father and daughter who communicate only on the phone, the father is about to remarry after the death of his wife, and needs to dispose of the old furniture and old photos of the family, and the daughter is very dissatisfied. On stage, they never "meet," just talk, discuss, argue over the phone.
After many phone calls, the father and daughter finally came out of the closed "carton", broke the barrier and communicated head-on. How can they rebuild their sense of security in the face of new changes in their lives? How to deal with relationships with loved ones? The play uses twenty-four phone calls to artistically reflect the current state of today's aging society and also makes people reflect on the key role that parent-child relationship plays in it.
<h3>Li Zongsheng's musical "When Love Has Become a Thing of the Past"</h3>
Performance time: October 30 - October 31
Venue: Beijing Poly Theater
"When Love Is a Thing of the Past" was drafted and named by musician Lee Jong-sheng and directed by Broadway Tony Award for Best Director John Rando. The whole drama adopts the American Broadway classic "Jukebox Musical" mode, selects nearly thirty classic musical works of Li Zongsheng to connect the entire musical, and cleverly integrates music and plot organically, so that the audience can appreciate Li Zongsheng's music and enter the classics at the same time, experience a story of love and separation.
"When Love Is a Thing of the Past" debuted on stage in November 2019 and has been widely recognized by audiences in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen and other places. Starting in October this year, the show will embark on a new national tour, presenting an "all-star" version of the luxurious performance lineup for the audience. Actors Bai Baihe and Wang Kai, as well as singers Wang Zhengliang, Jin Chi and Wang Zheng, will lead the way in the Beijing performance in October.
<h3>Post-immersion drama "Painted Skin 2677"</h3>
Performance time: October 5 - October 31
Venue: Star Theatre Village
"Post-immersion drama" is a new theatrical concept created by director Ding Yiteng for "Painted Skin 2677", which takes drama as the core and integrates various art forms such as environmental drama, immersion, secret room, magic, contemporary visual art, and auditory art. "Painted Skin 2677" takes the famous "Painted Skin" from the traditional Chinese classic "Liaozhai Zhiyi" as the creative inspiration to tell a love story that will occur in the future world. The director hopes to break through the inherent "viewing relationship" in traditional drama and explore the "appearance" and "sincerity" of everything in the world with the audience.
In the play, the audience is no longer just the audience, but also the player in the play. In addition to the time setting of the story background taking place in the "future world", those who take the initiative to enter the play will get more information and a more realistic experience, and the story level will also emphasize the audience's sense of participation, such as setting up the audience to unlock the task interaction link, and the choice of the participants will have an important impact on the plot advancement and plot presentation.