New Beijing News (Reporter Liu Zhen) Produced by the New Youth Theatre Company and Intermediate Theater, directed by Li Jianjun, all participants are the theater work "A Brief History of Mankind" composed of "suspect" actors specially recruited for the Beijing show. It will premiere in the middle theater on November 30. From "A Beautiful Day", director Li Jianjun began to cooperate with amateur actors. "Popular Mechanics", which premiered at the Wuzhen Drama Festival last year, was a work he consciously used all amateur actors. This work landed at the Intermediate Theater at the end of last year and was also invited to participate in the Shao Binner Theater in Germany in April this year. FIND Theatre Festival.
Stills of "A Brief History of Humanity", photography/Yuanwei
premiered in "A Brief History of Humanity" at the 7th Wuzhen Theatre Festival, using the history of human technology as a clue to retrieve image materials under different classification themes from the Internet ( (Including still images and moving images), with a new "image karaoke" performance method, dozens of amateur actors compare the images on the stage to imitate the performance.
Stills of "A Brief History of Humanity", photography/Yuanwei
Regarding how to present "image karaoke" on stage, director Li Jianjun once said in an interview with the media, "The so-called "image karaoke" is actually "choreographing with images" '. Karaoke itself is a way of daily life and performance that our audience is very familiar with. Through a certain arrangement, "A Brief History of Humanity" will focus on the relationship between image history and life self. What we see is actually the'true self' The destruction of the “animated self” and the birth of the “animated self”. In the images, you seem to be controlled by these, you are portrayed into another image, and the different images are intertwined and look very interesting. In fact, it may It will become a perspective to explore human history." The new work "A Brief History of Mankind" by
New Youth Theatre Company in 2019 is hailed as a "human evolution theory" performed in theater, a human brief composed of the concept of "progress". history. Words, recording technology, image technology, these great inventions that confirm and promote the progress of mankind are also performers in this performance. It is reported that the theater work "A Brief History of Mankind" by the New Youth Theatre will be performed in the middle theater from November 30th to December 1st.
Beijing News reporter Liu Zhen
editor Wu Longzhen proofread Wei Zhuo
