Nandu News Reporter Huang Lu The opening ceremony of the 18th "Sino-French Cultural Spring" Art Festival was held in Beijing a few days ago. The stage play "My Little Prince" produced by the Shenzhen Chinese Education Drama Brand Life Drama Workshop was officially included in this "Special Presentation of the 60th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between China and France" art festival. It is understood that this is the only small theater stage play in China that has been selected.
The play is directed by the well-known French-Chinese director Shao Sifan, adapted from Saint-Exupéry's "The Little Prince" and created by a collective. The special promotional issue of "2024 Sino-French Cultural Spring" shows that "My Little Prince" adopts the form of Greek drama. Each member of the Life Drama will present "The Little Prince" from his own perspective, reproducing this important figure in the history of French literature on the stage through language, music, body and painting. Behind everyone's memory, we discover the little prince in their hearts, and perhaps also the little prince in our hearts.
"The French 'Little Prince' is so close to us, yet so far away!" Cao Leilei, founder of Shenzhen Life Drama and producer of "My Little Prince", introduced the production of the play to Nandu reporters and believed that to truly understand " "The Little Prince" is a systematic project, and it is particularly difficult to break people's inherent reading settings for "The Little Prince". It has been 81 years since the publication of "The Little Prince". He has become a renewable and tamable spiritual resource. His fairy tale life is much more powerful than we imagined. Especially when director Shao Sifan led the actors to peel off the cocoons of the original work, we were even more surprised to realize the spiritual power of "feeling with the heart".
The adaptation and collective creation of "The Little Prince" is a brand-new fairy tale co-creation model. Cao Leilei said that in addition to presenting "The Little Prince" in multiple forms such as intensive text reading, video production, and stage performances, director Shao Sifan also set up a touching link: each actor took turns sitting on the ground and staring at the huge portrait of his childhood. , talking to their childhood like the "Little Prince"... Several actors sincerely sighed: Wow, we have enjoyed the benefits of meeting ourselves, falling in love with ourselves, and translating ourselves again.
"'The Little Prince' can create closer cultural connections for Shenzhen people!" Cao Leilei seemed very confident, "At the 'Questioning Theater' art exhibition that ended at the Guan Shanyue Art Museum in Shenzhen at the end of March, we participated in the 'Little Prince' The "Little Prince" theater installation is the most popular among the audience, and the "Little Prince" message board has been filled with posts for a long time. We have inspired Shenzhen people to have endless imagination and expression possibilities for "The Little Prince""
The stage play "My Little Prince". It will be staged at the Huaxia Art Center in June. Cao Leilei believes that the life drama will create a spiritual journey about "The Little Prince" in Shenzhen, allowing more people to "slow down and stay under the star for a moment..."
"I sent a copy of "The Little Prince" to everyone in the drama of life. I want to dedicate this book and the work we are about to create together to the children they used to be." Director Shao Sifan just like this, from The search for the "little prince" began in October 2023. Continuing the previous improvisation and instant writing, “But what we want to restore is not just the event itself, we have to find different and most appropriate ways of expression to restore the most direct feelings brought about by each experience: through language, music, Body parts, paintings... We started by collecting the childhood photos we could still find: talking to our childhood selves, and using our childhood selves to find traces of the little prince. Only in this way may we have the opportunity to tell the last story in the book. One sentence: He is back."
Director Shao Sifan said frankly that the creators of life drama will re-create "The Little Prince" with their own understanding and perception, and strive to explore new forms of Chinese interpretation of French classics.
It is reported that the current "Sino-French Cultural Spring" art festival, with Michelle Yeoh and Jean Tod serving as publicity ambassadors, will last from April to December and will span more than 30 cities and hold more than 400 exciting activities. , covering the fields of visual arts, craft design, stage arts, music, film, digital technology, books and speculation, including: exhibitions at the French National Furniture Institute, the Asian Art Museum in Paris, and the Reims Museum; the Comédie Française, the National Bordeaux Opera Ballet, Aldwin Theater Tour.
"Sino-French Cultural Spring" was founded in 2006. It is the first foreign art festival in China. It aims to promote exchanges and dialogues between Chinese and French art institutions and artists, showcase the innovation and vitality of Chinese and French culture and art, and enhance The understanding and friendship between the people of the two countries towards each other's culture. After 18 years of development, the festival has become an important platform for cultural exchanges between China and France.
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