Beijing News (Reporter Liu Zhen) With the reading of the incubation version of the children's drama "Insects: The Beetle" recently held at the Juyin Theater, the 2024 New Era Capital Script Incubation Project "New Year Exhibition Season" kicked off. This exhibition season is held from January 14th to March 31st. A series of incubation activities are carried out for more than 10 works of different types including dramas, children's plays, operas, musicals, dance dramas, etc.; through script readings, fragment rehearsals, immersive Various incubation methods such as interactive polishing and full-play rehearsal provide strong support for the script to move to the stage. Among them, four incubation works, the drama "How Good" and "The Moral Perfect Man", the children's drama "The Mysterious Journey of Wheat" and "Garbage Variations", will be introduced to the audience at Juyin Theater and Beijing Children's Art Theater before the end of January.
The children's drama "Insect Detective Dung Beetle" held an incubation version script reading. The
New Era Capital Script Incubation Project is sponsored by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism. Its purpose is to discover, cultivate and reserve outstanding young creators, and to build a communication bridge between literary and art troupes, production organizations and creators. The incubation in 2023 has been fruitful. 12 works covering dramas, children's dramas, operas and other artistic categories have been incubated. Among them, 8 works such as the dramas "The Eight Masters of Houhai" and "Looking at the Galaxy" have been signed with production organizations. This issue collected 408 works. After two rounds of review, 57 works entered the reserve incubation library. The script promotion meeting held in November 2023 promoted the outstanding scripts that have been reserved and incubated to more than a hundred literary and art troupes and production organizations across the country. Currently, more than 10 works have reached cooperation intentions with literary and art troupes and production organizations.
Some of the plays of the New Era Capital Script Incubation Project "New Year Exhibition Season".
According to reports, there are many highlights in this phase of incubation: First, the participation of literary and art academies is more enthusiastic. Literary and artistic groups such as Beijing Song and Dance Theatre, Beijing Children's Art Theater, Beijing Opera Troupe, and Beijing Lingkong Pingju Opera Troupe have reached cooperation intentions with intended works and screenwriters, and jointly incubated works will appear in the exhibition season. The National Center for the Performing Arts and the Beijing People's Art Theater are deeply involved in helping outstanding works go to the stage. Second, the categories and forms of incubation are more diverse. The dance drama "The Peony Pavilion" jointly incubated with the Beijing Song and Dance Theater uses young creative talents to explore a new model of dance drama incubation. The drama "The Central Axis of Elegance" organically integrates Beijing Qinshu, Plum Blossom and Dagu and other folk arts and shadow puppets, which is a useful attempt to incubate the genre of folk arts. Jointly incubate the children's drama "The Mysterious Journey of Maizi" with the Beijing Children's Art Theater, innovatively co-create with the audience in an immersive and interactive way to explore more possibilities for script presentation. Third, the scope of screenwriting is broader. There are senior industry veterans who have presented treasured works and exemplified the concept of "continuous writing"; there are also newcomers born in the 2000s who are making great efforts to show the new style of contemporary young creators.
editor, Tian Sini
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