The 13th National Dance Exhibition
Dance Drama "Lingnan Autumn Rain"
Venue: Guangdong Arts Theatre
Recommended reason: The dance drama "Lingnan Autumn Rain" is a key creative performance project in Guangdong Province, celebrating the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, through excavating the regional characteristic culture of Lingnan, focusing on the theme of the Red Revolution, activating the value of the heroic era, innovating stage art expression techniques, taking the first generation of Chinese communists Chen Fu martyrs and his father Chen Shuren as a senior official of the National Government and one of the founders of the Lingnan School as a prototype, using dance and drama to recreate the form of art, showing in the chaotic and turbulent situation. The heroism of the pioneers who went forward and followed the struggle for the rise of China and the struggle for national liberation.
Drama "Mortal Events"
Venue: Theatre 13, Guangzhou Dramatic Arts Center
Reason for recommendation: The drama "Mortal Events" is the annual original drama of The Thirteenth Theater in 2018, and the Guangzhou Arts Festival focuses on recommended plays. The so-called "mortals", all who are human, will inevitably have a moment of "imbalance" in their hearts. There is always some repressed "dissatisfaction" with past or present life, which may be hidden in peace by chai rice oil and salt and work trivialities. But the accumulation of undercurrents, like a flood on the verge of breaking a dike, threatens the extremely fragile psychology of modern people at all times. The three high school classmates who have been reunited for a long time have been driving towards their different life trajectories after many years. A university physical education teacher, living a small life comfortably; a big boss of an upstart, who has experienced ups and downs and can hardly laugh and lose; a disappeared "face melon" is already a respected quantum mechanics academician when he returns! Originally, it was supposed to be a reunion of wine and words, but it went farther and farther in terms of differences in identity, the discussion of others, and the differences in values...
Cantonese Opera "Good Luck in dongting"
Reason for recommendation: Jiang Wenduan, a national first-class actor and winner of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award, and Lin Jiabao, a national first-class actor, jointly performed a classic Cantonese opera repertoire. The story takes place in the Tang Dynasty, Xiucai Liu Yi entered Beijing to try, passing on the bank of the Jing River, and met the third lady of Dongting Longjun's daughter, who had a bad husband and was a shepherd in the snow all day. Liu Yi was upset when he heard the news, but the battle of Yi Chuan dong Ting, the uncle of the Third Niang, Qian Tangjun, was furious when he heard the news, and sent troops to jinghe to rescue the Three Niangs. Qiantang Jun wanted to recruit Liu Yi as his niece's son-in-law, but Liu Yi refused. Dong Ting said goodbye, and Liu Yi and San niang broke up. Empress Qiantang ordered the third lady to pretend to be the daughter of a fisherman, and entrusted someone to the Liu family to propose to her. The cave room flower candle night, the three women teased several times, Liu Yi began to understand the truth, and the lover eventually became a beautiful family.