's Sino-British original musical "Lady Macbeth" has attracted much attention and premiered at Shanghai 1862 Fashion Art Center on May 9, marking the beginning of the 1862 "Yuan·Vision" performance season.
This year marks the sixth anniversary of the operation of 1862, a new performing arts space. On the opening day of the performance season, 1862 also announced the contents of the "Yuan·Vision" performance season. As the only market-operated performing arts space renovated from a century-old industrial relic in Shanghai and even in the country, the opening and closing performances of this year’s performance season set the tone of “element” aesthetics, and digital bionics dance with multiple “element”, hoping to explore a new horizon for the future of performing arts.
The opening and closing drama
The opening drama of this season, "Lady Macbeth", was created by a team from China, Britain and the Netherlands. It is sung entirely in English and is sung-through. It is the first musical in the history of China to be incubated and produced by a domestic team. Shanghai completes world premiere of original English musical. The whole play is derived from Shakespeare's literary masterpiece. The triple mirrored open stage will integrate reality and dreams. It will reshape and outline Lady Macbeth's soul monologue with a multi-dimensional flashback narrative with overlapping perspectives.
British young creators James Beaney and Gina Georgia serve as screenwriters and composers. The Chinese creative team includes director Xu Jun, music director Jin Peida, stage designer Xu Xiaohuan, lighting and light and shadow media chief designer Xiao Lihe and other Chinese stage art creation giants. . Dutch actress Maya Hackford, known as the "Queen of German-Austrian musicals," will play Lady Macbeth. The play will be performed for nearly a month in its first run in 1862 and is also a quarterly resident performance.
The closing show of the season is the surreal visual new show "Alice". This play is known as "an explosive digital hybrid of drama + dance + circus + installation". It will be presented by Russia's krasnoyarsk theater youth, with bizarre dramatic expressions Seasoned with digital music, the cross-century literary fairy tale written by Lewis Carroll is reinterpreted. This blockbuster drama, which has swept Russia's highest drama award "Golden Mask Award" and many other international awards, will be launched in May next year.
Sensory New Show
In the "Sensory New Show" section, the St. Petersburg State Theater Academy will bring the Russian variety show "The Magician's White Gloves" to Shanghai at the end of the year. The play was a special guest performance at the opening ceremony of the Cannes International Film Festival. Winner of many international awards including the Edinburgh Festival, the ten pairs of "white gloves" are like an "encyclopedia" constructed from the body of a "magician".
Two "game theater" works will be unveiled one after another next year.
is a high-scoring immersive installation game theater "food" from the Edinburgh International Arts Festival. The artist Geoff Sobelle combines absurdist humor and poetic style to tell the story about "soil". The theater will be transformed into a "cooking paradise" in a "dinner party" with delicious colors, aromas and tastes, leading the audience to relive their connection with the world in a dappled sensory meditation.
Another game carnival work - the Belgian surreal game arena "Iron Bucket Man" is a dream experience about "revelation" and "restriction". The performance unfolds a ridiculous interactive interpretation of the game in a weird and dark atmosphere, guiding the audience to become the only guide leading the "Iron Bucket Man" to the game field, re-examining and saving life before everything collapses.
New Vision of the Future
The "New Vision of the Future" section focuses on five pioneering works with a sense of technology, creativity, and visuals, with diverse cross-border and digital imagination as the core of creation
Spanish documentary-style puppet light and shadow story show "Space Puppy" "Laika" is set in Moscow in the 1950s, presenting an innocent and warm yet magnificent and profound epic blockbuster. The play mixes documentary style with humorous design, and combines various artistic techniques such as photo opera, puppet show, physical theater, installation objects, montage, etc. The audience is invited to follow the world-famous dog to peek behind the scenes of historical news, and gain a unique experience of laughter and tears.
The modern Swiss light comedy "pss pss" was inspired by silent films. It has been performed in more than 700 performances in more than 50 countries and has won 14 international awards. The work combines contemporary clown and circus elements, interprets mime aesthetics with minimalist stage visual effects, and recreates the glorious fragments of the modern era through physical expression.
Dance Physical Theater "Shoot the Cameraman" is jointly created by choreographers, photographers and dancers, and presented by the team of Awa (Luxembourg) Dance Company. It is a multi-dimensional fusion of avant-garde topicality and dance images. Between the physical performance that is loyal to instinct and the "seventh art" that follows the digital order, this work will customize a dual-perspective viewing experience with multiple interpretations for the audience.
There are also two multimedia carnival shows that will be performed in midsummer. The Swedish punk electronic music game theater performed by
sirqus alfon has appeared on the "Talent Show" high-reputation works list in China and the United States and won many awards. It will create a fusion of artificial intelligence, digital special effects, iPad magic, music, dance and circus stunts. A feast for the senses, this crazy and humorous performance takes the audience into a modern and colorful fantasy drama, awakening themselves and jumping to release their emotions.
aza's "City Roaming" solo concert is a virtual bionic stage show of aza, a Chinese original male virtual artist and one of the top 100 up owners of Bilibili. It is a cross-border digital carnival wave and a hyper-realistic immersive interaction that breaks through time domains. The audience A "future trend" urban party will be shared in the exclusive customized playlist of virtual idol aza.
National Rhythm New Wonderland
The "National Rhythm New Wonderland" section includes four works rich in oriental aesthetics. Among them, the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra will perform three new Shanghai-style folk music works this year.
The original immersive Shanghai-style folk music "Above the Clouds - Let the Hearing Start from the East" will return to the 1862 T-shaped "show" venue in the second half of the year. 20 young Chinese music performers and singers will perform immersive performances with more than 100 musical instruments. Sing the oriental sounds of nature. "Zero One | Chinese Color" Chinese Music and AI Concert is the first Chinese music concert composed by AI in the country. It is jointly organized by 1862, Shanghai Chinese Orchestra and Tencent Music Entertainment Group Tianqin Laboratory for the first time. It is a " The innovative integration experiment of "computer" and "human brain", technology and art, broadens the boundaries of Shanghai-style traditional music with a new picture of artificial intelligence music creation. The "Encounter" Suona × Bagpipe × Electroacoustic crossover music scene will create a "dialogue" arena between the leading Eastern and Western Huadan musical instruments.
In addition, the Shanghai Kun Opera Troupe’s neoclassical Kun Opera "Pipa Xing" revives ancient tunes. The original version of this work pioneered the immersive performance on an ancient stage.
“1b62 Planet” kicks off artistic co-creation
In the new year, the theater will also use the label “1b62 Planet” to kick off artistic co-creation through joint production/production, commissioning, incubation, self-production and other forms of cooperation. trip.
includes two off-site performances, the full-sensory immersive suspense theater "Forensic Qin Ming-The Corpse Whisperer" and the immersive food theater "The Lonely Gourmet's Key to Love". The hyperspace 6D urban dance "silent disco" introduced by the original British IP will be presented at 1862 starting from June. In addition, 1862's specially customized environmental reasoning theater "A Guide to Small Town Life in Blood and Traces" will be presented at the main venue. The theater creates a 360-degree performance space + a double-sided theater viewing experience.
"Planet 1b62"'s first commissioned work "Summer Sounds: Seagulls" will be staged again in March this year, with an all-female cast, trying to reconstruct the world written by Chekhov. Another feminist work is "Ah, If only I could swim naked once" from the "Youth Competition" section of the Wuzhen Theater Festival. In addition, the special edition of "Ah, It would be nice if I could swim naked once" will star Zhao Xiaosu and pose a multiple-choice question that has nothing to do with gender.
