Today, young theater’s 2024 spring and summer performance season was officially released. The performance season has the theme of "two things", with a total of more than 35 stages and nearly 100 stage performances of various types, showing the integration of national style and overseas, tradition and modernity, classics and new life in the theater space. The theater plays an important role in the "Social Aesthetic Education" plan. play a vital role.
Traditional culture is young
The theme of the performance season "Liang Yi" comes from the "Book of Changes" "Tai Chi produces two rites, and two rites produce four images." "Liang Yi" sounds the same as "Liang Yi" in Chinese classical philosophy, which means tolerating the world. Wanxiang uses the interaction between humans and nature as an analogy to the viewing and performance relationship in the theater, presenting the innovative coexistence of contemporary performing arts and the youthful energy of the new era with traditional culture.
As the highlight of the spring and summer performance season, the "National Style" series of performances kicked off with the musical "Yang Jian". "Yang Jian" reintegrates the story of Yang Jian and Chen Xiang who cut down the mountain to save their mother, and uses an innovative narrative to initiate a dialogue between mythology and modern times.
followed closely by "Kun Opera is Young! Classical New Joy of Flowers". Young Kun Opera actors from Jiangsu Kun Opera Theater presented the art of continuous iteration of Kun Opera, the "ancestor of all operas", in a way that is close to young people. vitality. After many years, "1699·Peach Blossom Fan" reunites with the audience. This work directed by Tian Qinxin went from being a newcomer's work to becoming a collection of plays in Kunming and Kunming. "Nankun·Young Room" presented in the small theater demonstrates the ability of young actors from the "Fourth Generation of Kunming" in Kunming to act independently. Actors from different professions combine "acting and speaking" in one-man shows, "Palace of Eternal Life·Small Banquet", "Peony Pavilion· The four performances of "Frightening Dream", "The Story of the Thatched Cottage·Huadang" and "Fifteen Guan·Interviews" are based on traditional excerpt performances, integrating images, music, exhibits, and interactive experiences, leading the audience to have a glimpse of "sheng, dan, dan, A "clean and ugly" world.
html In early April, the Shanghai Peking Opera Theater successively presented six major dramas, "Success and Failure Xiao He", "The Romance of the West Chamber", "Mountain of Hearts", "The Stealing Armor of Time", "The Chinese Cart" and "Red Mane Horse", among which the new historical Peking Opera "Success and Failure Xiao He" Starring Chen Shaoyun, a famous Qipai master. Later, during the 39th Shanghai Spring International Music Festival, the Chinese style orchestra Zide Qin Club will present an immersive concert "Jiangnan is Good", inviting the audience to become scholars from Jiangnan in the Ming Dynasty and experience the Ming Dynasty in the time and space transformed by music. The citizens of Jiangnan live a life adjacent to mountains and rivers, and accompanied by silk and bamboo.A hit return, bringing the theater festival to your doorstep
In November last year, the Berlin Theater Company founded by Brecht made its debut in Shanghai. The puppet show "Brecht's Ghost" performed by the troupe was sold out, and many audiences were I deeply regret that it is difficult to get a vote. This spring, "Brecht's Ghost" returns to the Young Theater, giving audiences who missed it last year a chance to "make up their tickets". Also returning are the drama series "Spring Dies" and "Symmetry Broken" by Nine Intellectuals of the People's Republic of China, as well as "The World Between Nights" and "The Master and Marguerite" directed by Li Jianjun.
young Theater continues the characteristics of previous seasons and has in-depth cooperation with the Wuzhen Theater Festival, allowing theater groups and works that sparked heated discussions during the theater festival to be reappeared in Shanghai theaters, allowing local audiences to see the return of the "Drama Festival" at their doorsteps - —
Brazil’s national treasure Warehouse Theater Company caused a sensation at last year’s Wuzhen Theater Festival. This time, the theater group will perform “Neva” by Chilean playwright and director Guillermo Calderon at the Young Theater. In addition, more new works emerging from the youth competition section of the Wuzhen Theater Festival will be presented in the small theater, including the final plays "Dog" and "Centennial Tavern" from the ninth and tenth editions, and the tenth special attention award single-act "" Liu Hongmei and I were at the Station" and the Best Drama Award for "Fifth Floor and Ninth Floor".
The public enters the theater, and art enters citizens' lives.
Young Theater is a new cultural landmark in Yangpu District. The theater also undertakes the mission of public education and community empowerment. In the planning of each season's plays, the three pursuits of artistic value, game fun and social responsibility of aesthetic education are integrated, in order to "bring the public into the theater and let art into citizens' lives."
For example, Switzerland's Joshua Munden Dance Company breaks through the public's conventional understanding of dance performances. The sports dance theater "Game Theory" deeply explores how "games" participate in art, and the immersive interactive game theater "Juliet, Please!" ” retells the story of Romeo and Juliet in the form of dance. In these two special dance theater works, the audience is an essential part of the performance.
Among the parent-child works, the French art enlightenment magic drama "Amazing Night at the Art Museum - Starry Night" combines art and creative education, taking children on a refreshing and magical journey to the art museum in a joyful and interactive way. Hong Jindiao, an inheritor of intangible cultural heritage and a young puppet artist, performs "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles" and "Children of Huaguo Mountain Practice". From the perspective of family fun, he integrates the craftsmanship of intangible cultural heritage and the well-known IP in traditional culture. These "regardless of things" diversified style works all practice the trinity of "game, aesthetics and education".
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