Outside the theater on September 16, the neon lights outlined the glory of the old Hankou Theater in the night, and the post-00s opera rookies appeared. In the theater, Yu Weigang, the new winner of the "Plum Blossom Award", staged the award-winning drama "Wanli Tea Ceremony".
On the evening of the 15th, the 9th Wuhan "Drama Dock" Chinese Opera Art Festival kicked off at the Wuhan Theater, and the three-week opera feast was officially opened. After 9 years of accumulation, famous troupes and high-quality masterpieces on the "Drama Pier" have emerged in an endless stream, and the new generation and new ways of playing have become more and more eye-catching.
This year's Wuhan "Drama Dock" Chinese Opera Art Festival is hosted by the Wuhan Municipal People's Government, organized by the Propaganda Department of the Wuhan Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, and implemented by Wuhan Performance Co., Ltd. and Wuhan Theater Co., Ltd.
In three weeks, 13 winners of the "Plum Blossom Award" of Chinese drama, such as Wang Yushu and Cheng Cheng, will perform the masterpieces of Peking Opera, Huangmei Opera, Commentary, Qin Cavity, Hui Opera, Fujian Opera, Changsha Flower Drum Opera, Han Opera, Chu Opera and other dramas online and offline. Four major units, such as theater performance, new star competition, online stage broadcast, and tourism performance, will go from offline to online, from theater to city, with a total of 20 various activities. The performance still follows the principle of benefiting the people, the ticket price is composed of 30 yuan, 50 yuan, 80 yuan three files, and will continue to carry out cultural activities to benefit the people, arrange some free public welfare tickets to invite the public to watch the performance.
Since the ninth session, the Wuhan "Opera Pier" Chinese Opera Art Festival has been a feast for opera fans, and has helped and witnessed the development of Wuhan opera art power. "The show really felt like home." Before the opening performance, Yu Weigang sat in the renovated dressing room of the Wuhan Theater and recalled that in December 2015, the premiere of "Wanli Tea Ceremony" was held in the Wuhan Theater. After more than 5 years, Wuhan Chu Theater has continuously polished this work. This time, the version of him in the competition for the Chinese drama "Plum Blossom Award" was staged, "Our 'Shenmei version' was performed in Wuhan for the first time, still in the Wuhan Theater. Yu Weigang said, "Just like the wanderer who has traveled far away and returned home, I will definitely come up with more full and more sincere feelings to give back to the fathers and fellow villagers in Jiangcheng." ”
In front of the "Neon Theater" outside the Wuhan Theater, the rookies of Chinese opera are traveling into history. The neon lights outline the appearance of the old Hankou Meicheng Theater, "When we were young and watched the drama in the people's paradise, it was the Meicheng Theater." White-haired theater fans have recalled their childhood, and what appears in front of them is clearly a group of post-00 actors of Wuhan Han Theater. The youthful face and the ancient theater travel through time and space and collide together in an innovative way, which is a new presentation of the "drama dock" in Wuhan.
(Yangtze River Daily reporter Wan Xuming correspondent Shui Lingyun Photo: reporter Xu Weiwei)
【Editor: Ding Fei】