Beijing News (Reporter Zhang Kunyu) At 17:30 on January 5, Huichang Drama Town and Huichang Drama Season 001 kicked off in Huichang, south of Jiangxi. Drama season founders Lai Shengchuan and Ding Naizhu, actors Huang Lei, Zhou Xun, and Tang Wei, founders and artistic directors of Youren Shengu Liu Ruoyu and Huang Zhiqun, Hong Kong Repertory Theater artistic director Pan Huisan, artist Du Kefeng, costume designer Huang Wei, director Yang Ting, scholar John Kowallis and others came to the scene.
The opening ceremony. Picture provided by the organizer
The opening day was the 100th performance of the exclusive version of "Treasure Island Village". In addition to the performance at the opening ceremony, Youren Shenggu also held a large-scale outdoor performance "King Kong Heart" at Laijia Old House Square; the French theater troupe quidams, which also performed outdoors, gave people a refreshing experience with its unique shape and dreamy performance; The Hong Kong Repertory Theater presented the work "Sisters" written and directed by the famous French theater and film creator Pascal Rambert.
This time Lai Shengchuan also created a new work "Through the Mirror" specially for Huichang Drama Town. The play will be performed in the outdoor and indoor spaces of the garden theater renovated from the ancestral hall. The one-man show "Looking for Penguins at Night" produced by Shanghai Haoxi will also appear in the drama season, leading the audience to touch the inner world of a young man. The tea-picking song and dance version of "Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land" brought by the Huichang County Tea-Picking Song and Dance Theater combines the famous local Hakka tea-picking opera, adding a new color to this 38-year-old work. Fashion designer Huang Wei created a unique runway show on the Sanjiang Pedestrian Bridge in the town, staging a fashion feast among the mountain shadows and the gurgling river water.
The closing photo of the 100th show of the exclusive version of "Treasure Island Village". Picture provided by the organizer
The Huichang Theater Season lasts from January 5 to January 14. "The theater is around you, but the good thing is that you are far away." The beauty of Huichang Theater Town lies in the fact that it has just the right "distance" and close distance. "Drama", in this old city in southern Gansu, people can "take a break" and return to themselves in drama and creativity, and let drama nourish the cultural soil of the old city, allowing a good cultural and creative ecology here Take root and sprout, and enrich the humanities.
editor, Wu Longzhen
proofreader, Liu Jun