"A woman in her fifties drowned one night. She had no financial resources, no husband, no family. Even the novels she wrote were just a pile of waste paper that no one cared about..." November 7 , the Shanghai Dramatic Art Center's "2024 New Text Incubation Drama Reading Festival

"A woman in her fifties drowned one night. She had no financial resources, no husband, no family. Even the novels she wrote were just a pile of waste paper that no one cared about..." November 7 On September 1, the Shanghai Dramatic Art Center's "2024 New Text Incubation Drama Reading Festival" was held in the D6 space of the Drama Building. Four young screenwriters and the directors and actors of the Shanghai Dramatic Art Center worked together to bring four script readings with different styles. show.

This play reading festival is an upgraded activity of the "New Text Incubation Plan" of the original script incubation platform of Shanghai Dramatic Art Center. It evaluates the four original scripts shortlisted for incubation, "The Flying Goose", "The Novelist and Me", "The Whole Point of Cane" and "Akon". Naton" was put on a concentrated display. These works are written by four young screenwriters with an average age of less than 29 years old, with different majors and different backgrounds. The themes cover popular topics such as self-awakening and existential crisis, and reflect the thinking of young people in contemporary society.

The Drama Reading Festival has a special post-performance talk session, where the main creators are invited to communicate face-to-face with the audience. Through the "New Text Incubation Program", young screenwriters can co-create with the directors and actors of Shanghai Dialogue, face the audience, and receive real feedback to further improve the script, and have the opportunity to become an official project of Shanghai Dialogue and stage it in the future. .

The "New Text Incubation Program" of the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center was launched in 2016 with the goal of "creating an active, open and stable creative platform to protect original works". So far, it has received more than a thousand script submissions and produced There are 20 incubation plays, 11 incubation-to-regular projects, and more than 120 performances of incubation plays, with a cumulative audience of nearly 10,000 people. In addition to script incubation, the "New Text Incubation Program" also regularly invites domestic and foreign tutors to conduct writing and directing workshops to provide young screenwriters, directors, and actors with suggestions on working methods from text to stage. This year’s new text incubation director workshop will be launched in December, and recruitment has started recently.