Shanghai has now become the city with the largest number of cafes in the world. The capital of coffee culture is becoming the symbol and fashion of this city, and it is known as no coffee, no Shanghai.
In 2021, the Coffee Culture Week will become one of the highlights of Shanghai’s urban culture. For this reason, Shangsheng Xinsuo, which is at the forefront of cultural creativity and fashion, with its unique cultural atmosphere and many unique coffee shops, will launch Shanghai's first-ever Café Theater Festival, to be held from April 30th to May 5th, 2021.
The First Coffee Theater Festival
The first Coffee Theater Festival consists of three major contents: one is to perform 25 performances of 5 coffee dramas in cafes and navy clubs with different styles in the park; Premium products, coffee utensils, coffee fashion and designer brands are integrated; the third is to launch the Coffee Culture Awards·Guided Tour of Champion Barista Masters·Coffee Lovers Salon, forming another creative art business circle Citizen cultural activities with performing arts features. The first Coffee Theater Festival is directed by Changning Bureau of Culture and Tourism, hosted by Shangsheng·Xin Institute, performed and produced by Shanghai Modern Drama Club, and co-organized by Shanghai Xiangji Coffee Academy.
The original coffee drama "Love for Irish Coffee"
originated from the coffee drama in Paris, the fashion capital. With its pioneering spirit of art and the innovative ideas of young theater artists, many masterpieces are performed in cafes with different styles. Popular in Europe. Nowadays, coffee theater performances are active in famous urban theater performance places such as Broadway, West End, Edinburgh, Avignon, Tokyo Shibuya, Seoul National University Road, etc. Shanghai Modern Drama Club is also the first group in China to launch coffee drama performances. As early as 2001, it has launched a series of coffee dramas and coffee environment theaters, which have been well received.
2021 Shangsheng·Xinsuo's first Coffee Theater Festival is another drama brand event after Shangsheng·Xinsuo's "Suspense Drama Week" and "Shengdan Xinsheng Drama Festival". Coffee theater is characterized by its unique urban fashion pioneer spirit , Especially the performances integrated into the atmosphere of the cafe are loved by the audience, especially the young audience, and will also become a trendy fashion in the coffee culture.
The original coffee drama "Loving Irish Coffee"
During the week-long May Day holiday, the coffee lounge on the second floor of the Tsutaya Bookstore in Shangsheng Xinsuo, Yangufang, SEESAW Cafe, etc. and the Navy Club, from the afternoon And the evening will be able to enjoy five coffee plays.
Greek Famous drama "The Road to Thebes"
The famous British drama "Shirley Valentine", the famous French drama "Trio in E-flat major", the famous Greek drama "The Road to Thebes" , original coffee dramas "Love Irish Coffee" and "Encounter".
What is interesting is that the audience seats, coffee tables, and bar counters of this coffee drama are all environmentally friendly products specially made from coffee grounds by Cafa Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., bringing a new concept to coffee culture.
This performance has gathered a group of young excellent drama directors. Zhao Jie, who graduated from Shanghai Theater Academy with a master’s degree in acting, has starred in more than 20 stage plays in Modern Drama Club. She directed and acted in this coffee drama festival The famous one-man play "Shirley Valentine" from England vividly portrays the mental state of a married woman who longs to get rid of the increasingly silent life and regain the vitality of life.
The famous Greek drama "The Road to Thebes" is the masterpiece of Cabaneris, who is known as the father of contemporary Greek drama . Song Guanting, a postgraduate director student at the Shanghai Theater Academy, reflected on war and life through poetic symbolism. The performance in the form of coffee drama for the first time made the presentation of the work more creative.
The famous French drama Trio in E-flat major is the only drama created by Rohmer, the representative of the famous French New Wave film. Mozart’s trio in E-flat major was dramatically assumed to be the third party that did not appear. France, as the origin of coffee drama, believes that this work will give the audience the unique charm of French comedy.
The original coffee dramas "Encounter" and "Irish Coffee Love" both describe the urban young men and women facing the modern city.The reflection of honor and loneliness, young directors Yang Dan and Su Bojing are both born in the 90s. With the development of the Internet, there is almost no geographical barrier, but the characters in their works are more and more separated from each other. The confusion and anxiety of a generation, and the coffee shop has become a hut for the heart.
Shangsheng Xinsuo is a new type of urban business district integrating office, entertainment, life and cultural functions and a 7x24 all-weather vibrant community. An industrial park with cultural and creative as its core will also become a gathering place for culture and art. In the park, which is quiet amidst the hustle and bustle and has a greening rate as high as 28%, the old and new buildings echo each other, the past and the present are shuttled and transformed, and humanity and fashion are blooming together.
Shangsheng Xinsuo is composed of 3 historical buildings and 11 industrial transformation buildings throughout the growth history of New China. Sun Ke Villa, Navy Club, Shanghai's only English-style swimming pool, Columbia Country Club (now TSUTAYA Bookstore), etc. are now well-known online celebrity check-in places in Shanghai.
2021 Shangsheng Xinsuo’s first coffee drama festival program introduction
British famous drama "Shirley Valentine"
Screenwriter: (English) Willy Russell
Translation: Yang Minyan, Meng Zhenyu
Director and starring: Zhao Jie
This is a special drama, which allows us to see the self of yesterday that we almost forgot under the pressure of life. She, called Shirley Valentine when she was young, yearned for travel and freedom very much. Now that she is a wife, she works as a "cooking woman" at home. She has two adult children and lives a life of no passion with her husband day after day. And prepare the same single dinner for her husband. On such a day when the day after day was silent, suddenly her best friend arranged an invitation for her to fly to Greece for vacation, whether to go or not, whether to return to the young Shirley, or stick to the family, whether she can break through the wall and let go, maybe In just one thought, Shirley Valentine finally made a decision.
In fact, each of us has a wall of confinement that is difficult to break. I believe that audiences of different ages will have a shadow of Shirley Valentine in their hearts. If this drama can make Shirley reflect you The most secret truth in the heart can be understood and listened to, that is the unexpected surprise brought by coffee drama therapy.
French famous drama Trio in E flat major
Screenwriter: (France) Eric Rohmer
Director: Zhao Jie Starring: Chen Xiaoqiong, Pang Cong
Eric Rohmer (1920—2010) , is a representative figure of the famous French New Wave film. He was awarded the Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Award by the Venice Film Festival Organizing Committee. "Trio in E-flat major" is the only drama work created by him, which was directed and performed by himself in 1987.
The play describes the delicate relationship between a couple who broke up for a year. The plot of the characters seems to be trivial in daily life, but under the hood, it is just like a modern version of a fable that advances layer by layer and has no meaning. Mozart's "E flat The Trio in a Major Key is dramatically assumed to be the third party that did not appear, and it becomes the key to the change of the relationship between the man and the woman. In the emotional state of stalemate, the male protagonist pins his hope on a CD, hoping that music can be the key to love. Unexpectedly, the token fell into an emotional predicament because of this, adding unreasonable barriers with his girlfriend, and full of wishful thinking towards the imaginary rival who never appeared. The sense of humor and the unique charm of French theater in the drama works of the New Wave film masters.
France is the birthplace of coffee theater. This time, as the repertoire of the first coffee theater festival, I believe it will bring a different viewing experience to the audience.
Famous Greek drama "The Road to Thebes"
Screenwriter: Cabaneris
Translation: Luo TongDirector: Song Guanting
Starring: Wang Yu, Wang Yuxin, Tang Li, Zhang Keyuan, Sai Kaiyuan
Cabaneris (1921- 2011) is a well-known contemporary Greek playwright and prose writer, known as "the father of contemporary Greek drama". He often uses the story templates of ancient myths to deeply expose the political, social, and anthropological issues in real life from the perspective of modern people, and uses poetic symbols and satirical techniques to discuss war, hatred, life and death The motif has undergone profound re-reflection.
in "The Road to Thebes", Cabaneris once again re-wrote the story of Thebes with his own unique deconstruction. Focusing on the disasters and sufferings brought by social and political turmoil to ordinary people. The guard's family lived far away on the hills outside the city of Thebes, and they wanted nothing to do with the riots that broke out in the city with the family of Oedipus. As an ordinary person, they only care about whether they can find a job to survive tomorrow. However, it is sad that it is precisely here that the fate of ordinary people often cannot be separated from politics, and they will all be controlled by that invisible hand. At the end of the play, as the younger generation, the sons and daughters of the guards were all involved in the riots in Thebes, and they voluntarily walked the road to Thebes, which became the destiny of this generation,
For the first time, the performance in the form of coffee drama made the presentation of the work more free and pioneering.
Original coffee drama "Loving Irish Coffee"
Screenwriter: Zhao Jie, Su Bojing
Starring: Wang Yu, Xu Shuying
A cup of Irish coffee, one city, two people, 1275 days.
We spend our whole lives looking for the same kind, looking for resonance, looking for the comfort of having a sense of fit and identity with our small self in this bustling city that is running at high speed. Falling in love may be the easiest thing we can do, or it may be the hardest thing we dare not touch. A man and a woman, who have similar life pursuits but have experienced different life experiences, their meeting and getting to know each other in this big city with a high cost of living may be the truth of countless young men and women who are struggling on the road to their dreams. As portrayed, we all have similar dilemmas and struggles, with a little bit of brilliance, and some wrong things, but we are still tirelessly seeking love.
Alcohol makes people intoxicated, but coffee makes people sober. Irish coffee, as a cocktail containing coffee, became an opportunity for them to start a conversation...
Coffee drama is another way of interpretation that is different from traditional drama, maybe it is also A way of life that brings people modernist thinking. Time has not let us go, and we can't live up to it......
original coffee drama "Encounter"
Original: Sebastian Adaptation, Director: Yang Dan
Starring: Zhou Shu, Yang Zihan
Opposite the station A coffee shop, an unemployed actor Julian, is this a cafe in Shanghai, New York, Paris, or any city? In short, Julian met a woman who loves coffee, It doesn't matter whether this delicate professional woman is called An, Xi, Lao, or Si, whether she is a potential new film and television star discovered by Zhu Lian's insight, or whether she has had an emotional intersection, or is a stranger, because Julian always feels a lonely and soulless man, unable to rediscover who he once was. This seemingly absurd coffee drama that travels through urban cafes in different spaces truly reflects that our souls are becoming more and more lonely in a society where technology is new and fashion brands are dizzy.
Maybe, in the process of enjoying the coffee theater performance, you let the characters walk into you to soothe your heart. You may not have the opportunity to see the truth in your heart during the rush on weekdays, but during the one-hour coffee drama performance, it is the most authentic moment to face yourself.
Source: Thoughtful
