From October 9th to 28th, the 17th China Drama Festival was held in Wuhan, and 31 plays from 23 provinces, municipalities directly under the central government and autonomous regions across the country appeared on stage, "telling Chinese stories and spreading Chinese voices" in a colorful form.
On October 17, the 17th Chinese Drama Festival entered its ninth day. At 19:30 that night, the original large-scale drama "Bu Kui Fengyun" of Qiqihar Repertory Theatre shone on the big stage of Hubei Theater in Wuhan, and the 2-hour and 45-minute drama brilliantly showed the unique style of the northern black earth drama, which won the applause of the Jingchu audience...
The Chinese Drama Festival brings together good dramas
Founded in 1988, the China Drama Festival is an important platform for the national theater industry to display outstanding theatrical creation achievements, and is held every two years, with a distinct mass and folk nature. As of 2019, the China Drama Festival has been successfully held for 16 sessions, with the characteristics of large scale and high specifications.
The first and second Chinese Drama Festivals were held in Beijing, and since the third edition, the Chinese Drama Festival has been held nationwide and together with the awarding event of the "Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award" that year.
During the drama festival, according to the performance process, the China Drama Association will organize well-known domestic experts and some audience representatives to hold a symposium on the repertoire of the performance. In addition to the repertoire discussion, the theater festival also plans to hold a summit forum to discuss the current situation and development of the art of theater directors and performing arts in the new era, and invite well-known theater experts and front-line creative personnel across the country to attend and provide suggestions and suggestions for the development of theater.
The City of Heroes celebrates the new era
This year, the 17th Chinese Drama Festival was spent in Wuhan, a heroic city in Hubei. Hubei is known as a "big opera province", and Wuhan is a well-known "opera dock" in history. In the autumn of October, 31 "best-looking" plays shined the most dazzling brilliance in Wuhan's "Drama Wharf".
The festival is co-sponsored by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the Chinese Dramatists Association, the Propaganda Department of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Wuhan Municipal People's Government, and the Propaganda Department of the Wuhan Municipal Party Committee and the Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism.
At this theatrical feast, 29 participating plays and 2 invited performances will be presented. The 31 operas come from 23 provinces, municipalities directly under the Central Government and autonomous regions, covering 14 opera dramas such as Peking Opera, Kun Opera, Commentary, Yu Opera, Yue Opera, Huangmei Opera, Sichuan Opera, Jin Opera, Wu Opera, Gaojia Opera, Flower Drum Opera, Shandong Wuzi Opera, Chu Opera, Zhuang Opera, as well as drama, opera and children's drama, involving a wide range of regions and a wide range of categories, reflecting the richness and diversity of drama art.
At the Wuhan Museum, the "Wuhan Opera "Big Pier" - Wuhan Opera History and Culture Special Exhibition" was crowded, and the organizers also held mobile exhibitions at the Qintai Grand Theater and the Wuhan Theater to let the audience understand the past and present lives of the "Opera Dock".
"The Chinese Drama Festival is in Wuhan for the first time, and it will also pay tribute to the heroic city with art!" Cui Wei, secretary general of the China Drama Association, said: "As a 'opera pier' with a long history, Wuhan has a very deep cultural tradition of opera, and the audience is very fond of the art of drama, and the level of appreciation is particularly high. With the most exquisite art and the most sincere dedication, the participating troupes will express their respect for Wuhan, a heroic city, and the great anti-epidemic spirit. ”
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For the troupe and the repertoire, it is undoubtedly an honor and affirmation to be selected for the stage of the Chinese Drama Festival! The 31 plays selected for this year's drama festival are recommended and submitted by various provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions and central units, and are selected through strict review and selection by the expert review team of the China Drama Association.
Among them, the repertoire of the three eastern provinces was selected for two plays, namely the Qiqihar Repertory Theatre drama "Bu Kui Fengyun" recommended by the Heilongjiang Dramatists Association and the drama "Going North" by the Liaoning Provincial People's Art Theatre, both of which are funded by the National Arts Fund.
Hecheng drama was selected for the first time on the stage of the Chinese Drama Festival, and the Qiqihar Repertory Theatre was jubilant, and the whole troupe worked hard to prepare for jingchu. On the morning of October 7, the car was loaded, and the large truck filled with performance props set off that night, and rushed to jingchu land thousands of miles away in advance; on the 13th, more than 30 members of the Qi dialect cast took a bus to Shenyang, and on the 14th, they transferred to a flight to Wuhan; on the evening of the 14th, the troupe staff unloaded the props until the early morning of the next day; on the 15th, the crew loaded the stage until more than 22:00 at night; on the 16th, the crew walked the stage and rehearsed all day. On the morning of the 17th, the 17th China Drama Festival "One Drama, One Promotion" - the media meeting of the drama "Bu Kui Fengyun" was held in the multi-functional conference room of Wuhan Theater.
Debuting on the stage of the China Drama Festival, the Northern Black Earth Drama attracted a lot of media attention, and reporters asked enthusiastic questions. At the meeting, Zhang Zhicheng, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Qiqihar Municipal CPC Committee, secretary of the party leading group and director of the Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism, Ai Ping, chairman of the Heilongjiang Dramatists Association, head of the Qiqihar Repertory Theatre Troupe, and a national first-class actor, Qin Hong, secretary general of the Heilongjiang Dramatists Association, and Zhang Mingyuan, screenwriter of the drama "Bu Kui Fengyun", attended the meeting, answering questions from reporters from China Drama Magazine, China Literature and Art Network, Yangtze River Daily, Wuhan Daily, and Wuhan Television Station, and briefly introducing the history, culture, and humanistic characteristics of Hecheng. The development of drama creation and black earth drama.
On the evening of the 17th, the Yellow Crane Tower standing on the bank of the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge was illuminated at the beginning, which was extremely beautiful. At 19:00, the Hubei Theater adjacent to the Yellow Crane Tower was brightly lit and crowded. In line with the principle of benefiting the people through literature and art, the maximum ticket price of this year's drama festival is 80 yuan, and the lowest ticket price is 20 yuan. The drama is about to start, the audience is endless, and the audience on the two floors of the Hubei Theater Coliseum is crowded.
At 19:30, the curtain opened, and the large-scale original drama "Bu Kui Fengyun" shined on the stage.
The gunshots of Shougong's martyrdom passed through a century of time. The shouts of Ma Zhanshan's arms on the river bridge also shocked the whole world... A "wine basket alley", a "crane restaurant", a group of foreign displaced people, together experienced the end of the Qing Dynasty, the rise of the Republic of China, warlords, Japanese and Russian invasions, and stubbornly survived in the disaster-prone city of Bukui.
As a prequel to "The Wind Blows BuKui", "Bu Kui Fengyun" takes the real history of Qiqihar's two foreign invasions and two uprisings as the background, showing the changes in Gengzi in 1900, the death of General Shoushan, the entry of the Russian army into the city, the "918 Incident", the Ma Zhanshan Jiangqiao War of Resistance, the Japanese invasion and other stories that happened in the old city of Bukui in the past 30 years, showing the changes and vicissitudes of the northern frontier...
The drama of more than 2 hours ended, and all the closing actors were greeted by the warm applause of the audience. Holding the brochure of the play "Bu Kui Fengyun", Zhang Tianshu, a third-year student at the Art College of Wuhan University, stepped onto the stage and took a group photo with the actors to sign a souvenir, "I was born in Hunan and have never been to the northeast. Today is the first time to enjoy the northern drama, "Bu Kui Fengyun" shown the frontier history, Kanto style and character stories, all fascinated me, too addictive to watch! ”
The crew of "Bu Kui Fengyun" took a group photo in front of the Hubei Theater.
Source of the manuscript| Crane City Evening News
The author of the manuscript | Mao Jie Haidong Feng Tao
Look at the editor| Chen Li