2024.3.31-2024.4.16, the Zijin Culture and Art Festival’s small theater unit (the third session) opened. Within 17 days, 20 small theater works with different themes and styles were staged in Nanjing in turn. Dramas, children's plays, tin plays, puppet plays, Liuqin plays...are performed in 9 small theaters in 5 districts across the city.
has five major themes: contemporary perspective, historical gaze, legendary stories, various aspects of the world, and innocent childhood, interpreting various aspects of life in various forms.
The annual small theater drama hits Nanjing, the capital of literature in the world. Once again, it is immersed in drama, and young dramatists send out good news of the new era.
Performance time: 4/9 19:30
Performance location: Zilu Yuhua Dream Theater
Ticket price: 60/80/100 yuan
"Waste Chai Music Group" tells the story of a stray cat and a small piece of wood passing through the cello, The story of violins and other musical instruments and their former owners tells us about the ordinary but meaningful life of my grandfather as an instrument builder. These musical instruments that had been repaired and reborn by my grandfather spontaneously formed a scrap music troupe, and together they performed a string quartet piece "The Dance of the Little Finger on the Four Strings" composed for my grandfather. Use your own growth and efforts to express your highest respect for those who do not forget their original aspirations and persist in the career they love.
Highlights of the play
01 This play will use a variety of interesting puppet performance forms such as traditional Chinese stick puppets, clay puppets, cloth puppets, paper puppets, and multimedia, combined with live string quartet performance, to achieve both concert performance and puppet performance. The harmony and unity of the performance of the play;
02 In the play, each instrument will tell the life story and music inheritance behind it in the first person way, combined with the elements of the string quartet, so that young people can understand the relationship between the instrument and people in the story. relationship, the relationship between musical instruments and nature, and the relationship between musical instruments and musical instruments;
03 This play carefully selects a variety of representative puppets, including Chinese intangible cultural heritage stick puppets, clay puppets, cloth puppets, paper puppets, etc., combined with multimedia interaction , joining the beautiful melody performed by violin, cello and other instruments in the performance.
screenwriter said
q: What was the opportunity to create this story?
Shi Qianli: I grew up in the Provincial Yang Opera Troupe, and my father worked in the Provincial Song and Dance Theater. I grew up watching Yang operas and operas, and later Kunqu opera, dramas, and various stage arts. Others only watched the plays performed by the actors on the stage, but I also saw the plays performed by the actors off the stage. Therefore, I have always wanted to write stories about art practitioners themselves into novels or plays. This time I chose a relatively unpopular industry among art practitioners. The story of the musical instrument builder is also a true story from life, and such stories are still happening in real life. I would like to take this opportunity to express my special thanks to master violin maker Guo Mingkui and Professor Liu Wenrong, doctoral supervisor of instrumental music at Nanjing University of the Arts for their strong support!
q: The performance of the play created this time combines drama, puppet show, symphony and multimedia. It is a very complex coordination. What is the biggest difficulty encountered in the creation and arrangement?
Shi Qianli: This drama is a form of cross-border integration. Each industry does its own part independently and then integrates it. Because it is an innovative form, there is no previous reference to draw from, so the main creative team completely relies on the brain's spatial logical thinking to transform into image thinking to build a fusion of so many cross-border elements. The challenge is huge and the uncertainty is also strong. But again, I believe there will be more surprises.
q: During the performance, there will be an interactive part with the small audience. This is one of the charms of small theaters, but it will also increase the difficulty of the actors' performance. How was it achieved in such a short creative time?
Shi Qianli: The interactive part will not be designed too much in the premiere of this drama. The natural and silky interaction must be a work that has been performed many times and is very mature, so that it can present the best interactive effect. We This work will be performed in a small theater and performed weekly, with new interactive content added every time to make the work more and more mature.
q: What are your expectations for this creation?
Shi Qianli: I look forward to this work becoming an outstanding Chinese children's drama that we independently develop without borrowing any elements from European and American children's drama styles. Become our own literary and artistic masterpieces as Chinese people. Moreover, in the future, we hope to turn this play into a children's play for teenagers to perform and perform themselves, as a demonstration play for our affiliated youth symphony orchestra.
Main creative staff
Script director: Gao Cheng
Doctor of "Theory and Practice of Drama, Film and Television Screenwriting" from the Central Academy of Drama. Associate professor at the Film School of Shanghai Theater Academy. Distinguished director of Jiangsu Province Script Incubation Center. His main screenwriting works include the dramas "Yuhuatai", "Carved Scripture" (also known as "Yang Renshan"), "Jiang Zhaohe", the musicals "Love", "Little Sisters of the Prairie Heroes", the movies "Crossing the Line", "Free Range Era", and the TV series " "King of Legends" and "Warm Man", live performance "Tianjiang" immersive drama "Battle of the Lone City·Emberless Star", etc.
's works have won the "Five One Project" Award from the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee, the National Quality Project Annual Funding Project, the National Art Fund Funding Project, and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism's "Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China Stage Art Quality Creation Project" key support works - 100 The "Hundred Years of One Hundred Works" traditional high-quality revival plan focuses on supporting works, the second National Outstanding Musical Show Repertoire, etc.
Screenwriter/Producer: Shi Qianli
Level 2 Art Supervisor. Director and producer of the administrative creative department of Jiangsu Provincial Performing Arts Group Symphony Orchestra. Member of the Chinese Musicians Association; member of the Jiangsu Music and Literature Society; member of the Jiangsu Art Critics Society. Researcher at Jiangsu Rural Revitalization Think Tank Research Institute.
Director: Dong Ming
National second-level director, deputy director of Jiangsu Provincial Performing Arts Group Theater, deputy secretary-general of the Jiangsu Provincial Youth Federation Committee for Culture and Sports, member of the Drama Director Committee of the Chinese Drama and Literature Society, and expert member of children's drama of the Chinese Children's Drama Research Association , a member of the Jiangsu Drama Literature Review Association.
Puppet performance director: Xu Hong
National first-class actor, member of the International Puppetry Federation, executive director of the China Puppet and Shadow Puppet Art Society, artistic director of the Puppet Theater of Jiangsu Provincial Performing Arts Group, expert enjoying special allowances from the State Council, and inheritor of national intangible cultural heritage , judge of the Wenhua Award of the Ministry of Culture, Puppet and Shadow Puppet and Folk Art Category and the National Arts Fund.
served as a director of the 5th Chinese Drama Association, a member of the 10th Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, and won the 8th Wenhua Performance Award, four Golden Lion Awards at the 2nd National Puppet and Shadow Puppet Finals, and the UNESCO Folk Art International Organization The "Best Cultural Inheritance Award", "The Organizing Committee's Highest Honor Award" and the "World Youth Conference Special Honor Award" have won domestic and foreign awards. It has been included in several dictionaries such as "Chinese Drama Dictionary" and "Chinese Talent Dictionary".
As the only founder of a self-financed state-owned enterprise cultural troupe in the country, she has overcome many difficulties and organized the "National Intangible Cultural Heritage - Cane Puppet Show Public Welfare Bilingual Summer Camp" at her own expense for eleven consecutive years since 2009, sending love and Cool and cool, benefiting nearly 400 children from disadvantaged groups.
Stage design: Sheng Xiaoying
is a national first-class stage designer and is currently the art director of Jiangsu Performing Arts Group. He has been engaged in stage design for 40 years and has produced more than 100 stage art design works. He has participated in many Chinese Art Festivals, Chinese Drama Festivals, Chinese Opera Festivals, Chinese Peking Opera Festivals, Chinese Yue Opera Festivals, Huangmei Opera Art Festivals, provincial drama festivals, and art festivals. Festival, etc., and won many outstanding stage design awards.
's recent major works include: the operas "Jianzhen's Journey to the East" and "Autumn Son"; Peking operas "Xiang Nong", "Panlong Ridge", "The Soul of the Mirror Sea", "Yin Yang Fate", etc.; the dramas "The Hero of the Island" and "Thirty Debates" Eight Days", "Mourning City", "Jinling Engraved Scripture", etc.; Xi operas "Dong Cunrui", "Purple Sand Dream", "Xu Xiake", etc.; Yue operas "Lilac", "Woyi Lane", etc.; Henan opera "Little Cart", etc.; Ou opera "Lan" "Little Grass"; Huangmei opera "The Woman at the foot of Duxiu Mountain", etc.; puppet show "Magic Treasure Box", etc.; Qin Opera "Wanglu Terrace", "Necklace", etc.
Producer: Jiangsu Performing Arts Group
Performing units: Jiangsu Performing Arts Group Symphony Orchestra, Jiangsu Performing Arts Group Theater, Jiangsu Performing Arts Group Puppet Theater
Producer: Zhou Dongliang
Artistic Director: Ke Jun
Director: Wang Li
Producer: Wang Zhiqiang and Chang Yi
Script director: Gao Cheng
Puppet performance director: Xu Hong
Screenwriter/producer: Shi Qianli
Director: Dong Ming
Executive director: Cai Yuer
Scenario designer: Sheng Xiaoying and Hu Zhibo
Composer: Wu Qingye Fuwen Wave
Music Director: Guo Suxi Cai Zili
Multimedia Design: Yang Yike Tongzhou
Visual Design: Liu Chang
Styling Design: Wu Yao
Prop Design: Kang Xinyue
Lighting Design: Liu Chengjin
Stage Director: Liu Ruifeng
