Interface News Reporter | Lin Ziren Yin Qinglu Interface News Editor | Jiang Yan [Shanghai] Immersive suspense theater "Secret No. 9" Performance time: July 11-July 31 Performance location: Shanghai Grand Theater This year, the high-scoring British drama " "Secret No. 9" ushered

interface news reporter | Lin Ziren Yin Qinglu

interface news editor | Jiang Yan

[Shanghai]

Immersive suspense theater "9html Secret No. 9"

Performance time: July 11-July 31

Performance location: Shanghai Grand Theater

This year, the high-scoring British drama "Secret Number 9" ushered in its final season. Although the series has ended, its fate with Chinese audiences will continue in the theater: the immersive suspense theater "Secret No. 9" is the world's first offline performance version authorized by BBC Studios in the United Kingdom. It is written and starred by the original drama screenwriter and starring Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton serve as script supervisors, and director Zhao Miao and "Santuo Banner Theater Company" are responsible for the production. The play continues the consistent imaginative and terrifying style of "Secret No. 9", and performs three unit stories from "Secret No. 9" in more than 100 minutes.

In order to provide the audience with an immersive viewing experience, the Shanghai Grand Theater has renovated the new box theater on the 5th floor, opened up the circulation of the theater, rehearsal hall, backstage and other spaces, and decorated the elevators and the 5th floor corridor in a British style. Three independent viewing areas - "Surprise Room No. 9", "Apartment No. 9" and "Platform No. 9" - constitute "Space No. 9". A fan of the series who has gone to see the show said, "Because the surrounding scenery and decorations are really British, I felt like I had walked into the filming set of an episode of "Secret No. 9"."

Happy Twist New Year's Eve The play "Out of Horse"

Performance time: July 12th - July 28

Performance location: Hongqiao Art Center

"Out of Horse" is inspired by the "Out of Horse" in the folk culture of Northeast China, and tells a story of "layers of reversal" The story of the Ming Dynasty: Mr. Qin, the richest man in Deqing County, died suddenly, and his will was smeared and changed. The huge amount of property attracted the covetousness of Mr. Qin's wife, concubines and son, and a battle for inheritance was about to begin. Li Dapu, a horseman from the Northeast, spoke for ghosts and made a lot of money in three houses. What he never expected was that he seemed to have really attracted a ghost, and also triggered the unspeakable secret of the old house... The creative team of

spent nearly two years in preparation, consulted many materials and classic works, and strived to make the characters in the play Various details can withstand scrutiny, including the historical background, customs of the Ming Dynasty, etc. The stage design and costumes of the play all refer to the style of the Ming Dynasty. The audience will see Ming Dynasty Huizhou architecture appearing on the stage. On the basis of the three-sided turntable, the stage also has some small turntables superimposed, switching back and forth like a Rubik's Cube to show different plots and atmospheres. Although the story of "Out of the Horse" is set in the Ming Dynasty, it is still a comedy that focuses on responding to the current situation in a humorous way - observing society from the perspective of a small person and presenting the situation and thinking of ordinary people.

Mo Yan's drama "Crocodile"

Performance time: July 19th - July 21st

Performance location: Shanghai Grand Theater

After completing its national premiere at the Suzhou Bay Grand Theater in May this year, the drama "Crocodile" toured in July To Shanghai. "Crocodile" is a magical drama that Mo Yan conceived and created for more than ten years. It was inspired by Mo Yan's early experiences and thoughts when he was a reporter at "Inspection Daily". The story revolves around Shan Wuzang, a corrupt corrupt official on the run, and a crocodile received as a birthday gift. The crocodile has a special habit. If it is always placed in a small space, it will not grow. But once its growth space is expanded, it will grow rapidly with the enlarged space. During the ten years abroad, various characters around Shan Wuzang appeared, and his official mentality also quietly changed. He kept replacing the crocodile with bigger fish tanks, allowing it to grow into a four-meter-long monster, and his desires continued to expand like the crocodile until it swallowed himself.

The play "Crocodile" is divided into four acts and nine scenes, with a total length of more than three hours. The series has assembled a strong creative lineup. Composer Umebayashi Shigeru has brought original drama music for the first time in his creative career to "Crocodile". The stage design, costumes, and lighting design of the play are all professionals active in major theaters in France. , starring Zhao Wenxuan, Zhang Kaili and Deng Cuiwen. Mo Yan himself commented on the play after the premiere of "Crocodile", "I think a good play is a mirror of life.It allows each of us viewers to see themselves in front of this mirror, see their own nobility, see their own purity, and also see their own weaknesses that are similar to some of the characters in the play. Such an observation, such an appreciation, is not only an appreciation of art, but also a reflection of one's own life. "

Jin Shijie and Tian Shui star in the drama "Father"

Performance time: July 27-August 11

Performance location: Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center

The drama "Father" is about a man suffering from Alzheimer's disease In the process of getting along with his daughter, the father who is trapped in time is constantly trapped in the vortex of memory and reality. The drama "Father" won the French heavyweight drama award "More" in 2014. Lière Drama Award for Best Screenplay, and was nominated for the Best Screenplay Award at the Tony, Laurence Olivier and other theater awards from 2015 to 2016. The film of the same name (also known as "The Father Trapped in Time") was directed by Anthony Howe Starring Pukins and Olivia Colman, Hopkins won the 93rd Academy Award for Best Actor for this film, becoming the oldest Best Actor in the history of the Oscar.

In the movie, Jin Shijie, who plays the "father", said that "father" Andre is almost the most difficult role he has ever played. Many lines are confusing and inconsistent; Tian Shui, who plays the "daughter", said that during the rehearsal of this play, During the process, she often thought of her own mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease and passed away last year. She said that she actually wanted to forget her mother when she was sick and only wanted to remember her when she was in good condition. The plot and dialogue in this drama constantly reminded her of the details of her mother's illness. "Actors are like this. They know they are being tortured but when it is helpful to create a character, they will dive in without hesitation." ”

[Beijing]

National Center for the Performing Arts’ production of Puccini’s opera "Women of the West"

Performance time: July 23, 25-27

Performance location: National Center for the Performing Arts Opera House

Giacomo Puccini is The greatest opera composer in the Italian opera world after Verdi, he has created well-known works such as "The Artist's Life", "Tosca", " Madama Butterfly" and " Turandot". , his three-act lyric opera "Girl of the West" is performed at the National Center for the Performing Arts. This is also the premiere of this opera in China. This year marks the 100th anniversary of Puccini's death, and the National Center for the Performing Arts will once again stage this classic.

The opera originated from a trip to the United States. In early 1907, the American Theater invited Puccini to visit the United States with his family. Puccini took advantage of this opportunity to experience American life. After watching Velasco's play "La Vie Di Western", Puccini He became extremely interested and immediately began working with American theaters to adapt it into a play. Just as "Turandot" incorporated Chinese folk music, "Girl of the West" used local American music, such as Native music such as black ragtime music, Indian music and California folk songs, without losing the Italian musical language

In this performance, the emerging international director Thaddeus Strassberger (thaddeus Strassberger). ) will return to direct, and together with the National Center for the Performing Arts opera singers, chorus, orchestra, and Chinese and foreign young singers, they will lead the audience into the "Golden West" full of male hormones, where bandits and beauties coexist.

The Second NTU. Drama Week "Hometown"

Performance time: July 13th and 14th

Performance location: Drum Tower West Theater

In order to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the publication of Lu Xun's "Hometown", the Master of Arts Theater Troupe of Nanjing University created the drama "Hometown" of the same name, composed by Directed by Lu Xiaoping, a professor at the School of Liberal Arts of Nanjing University, the play is set in Lu Xun's hometown a hundred years later, and depicts the spiritual anguish of farmers and young intellectuals who have left their hometown. The play has a similar spiritual core to the original work, which is also at Nanjing University. After its premiere in commemoration of the 110th anniversary of the Faculty of Liberal Arts, it became an invited play at the first Aranya Theater Festival, the 2021 Suzhou Bay Theater Festival and other theater festivals.

Although the stage of the story is still Lu Xun's hometown, a hundred years later, Phoenix brand bicycles and Shanghai brand watches have long been fashionable in the past, the water tower was demolished, and a six-lane highway was built. The Li family living here argue about funeral and marriage, family affection and moral values, and are deep in anxiety and confusion. In the original work, intellectuals are representatives of power, but in the drama, the screenwriter shows the aphasia of intellectuals: those who returned home and those who stayed behind had a heated debate, but all communication was ineffective. The script focuses on the collision between modern civilization and traditional civilization, and records the cultural transformation of the new countryside in the new era. This makes us think: 100 years later, material things have undergone earth-shaking changes, but do people’s spiritual ignorance and isolation still exist?

The Second NTU Drama Week "International Restaurant"

Performance time: July 19-21

Performance location: Drum Tower West Theater

The original black comedy "International Restaurant" tells the story of a "rogue construction team" and "local evil" Fighting incident of "power" - On September 10, 2009, a violent conflict broke out between the Nanxu County Highway Bureau and migrant workers due to construction conflicts. In this conflict, the canteen proprietress Feng Xianer was stepped on in the face by the director of the Highway Bureau. She could have used money to settle the dispute, but Feng Xianer insisted on seeking justice for herself. By a strange combination of circumstances, "The Internationale" became the strongest voice of this "accidental revolution".

Through this play, screenwriter Ju Yunpeng attempts to discuss the embarrassment of a county in the face of emergencies, the unwillingness and expectations of the parties involved, and the changes in the social mentality of the Chinese people. This incident, like countless comedies in this land, started out of nowhere and ended hastily. The response was full of Chinese absurdity and wisdom. Playwright Guo Shixing praised "International Restaurant" for restoring "his confidence in young Chinese screenwriters" and believed that the play found a small key to touch people's hearts from complex social contradictions. He commented that although Ju Yunpeng is young, But he has enough experience to pity not only the humbleness and misfortune of his characters, but also their impurity and unworthiness. As the slogan for the premiere of "International Restaurant" says: "This is a work that is a little far away from our small world. It is more like a cruel, real and vast wilderness."

French musical "The Spring of the Cowherd Class" 》Chinese version

Performance time: July 19th-28th

Performance location: Beijing Erqi Theater

The French film " The Spring of the Cowherd " has touched countless people. After being released in France in 2004, it received 850 hits It won the box office championship of the year with 10,000 viewers. The musical of the same name adapted from the film was produced by the original cast of the film, and amplified many details in the film in terms of stage, special effects and visual design, striving to restore the texture of the film and give the audience an immersive experience. The play was evaluated by "Le Parisien" as "more shocking than the movie", and Luxembourg Radio and Television said that "the young actors' superb acting skills are amazing, and the choreography and melody are perfect." The

musical completely replicates the plot of the movie. , tells the story of frustrated musician Clement Mathieu who came to a boys' boarding school to work as an assistant teacher in the French countryside in 1949. Most of the children here are children with difficult problems. The principal only cares about his own career and treats these children in an extremely cruel way. However, Matthew tried to change the status quo in his own way. He organized a choir and used music to open the closed hearts of the students.

After the Beijing station, the musical "Spring of the Cowherd Class" will be performed at the Shangyin Opera House in Shanghai, and will start touring more cities in the future.