When the audience is looking forward to the day when they return to the theater, the creative staff behind the scenes are also preparing new works, looking forward to seeing the audience again.
Yesterday, the reporter learned from the various institutes under the Shanghai Wenguang Performing Arts Group that everyone's creation progress did not press the pause button because of the new crown pneumonia epidemic. The highlights of the stage works this year and next year are already visible.
theme works emerge
In order to welcome the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China next year, the theme works of various institutes have entered the creative period.
The drama "New Youth" created by the Shanghai Dramatic Art Center was specially invited to create by the famous screenwriter Meng Bing. The play revolved around the years when Chen Duxiu was one of the early founders of the Communist Party of China and founded the "New Youth" magazine. It is currently in the Spring Festival The revised draft was completed during the period.
actor Tian Shui reads "Believe in the Future"
Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra is about to launch two new works, one is "Bethune in Jinchaji" by the 90-year-old composer Lu Qiming, the other is a post-90s composer Gong Tianpeng's symphonic group poem "Ode to a Hundred Years" .
Gong Tianpeng
Gong Tianpeng introduced that the whole song of "Ode to a Hundred Years" is composed of ten pieces of music such as "Awakening", "Labor" and "Family Country". It is closely linked to the modern and contemporary history of the nation, and is highly romantic and heroic. Audition on May 10.
iteratively innovates
Do you still remember last year's popular puppet stage "The Last Elephant"?
"The Last Elephant"
"Made in China" after many iterations, stood on the stage with version 5.0, leaving the audience with a deep shock and touch.
Shanghai Puppet Theater Director He Xiaoqiong revealed that the 1:1 elephant puppets with countless fans will usher in a newly created family carnival stage play, temporarily titled "Ark" .
Puppet Theatre Company’s new work
is different from "War Elephant" which owns Shen Shixi's literary works. "Ark" is still looking for a literary script, or it may be an original innovation. The play also starts from the story of man and elephant, centering on the theme of ecological civilization and precise poverty alleviation, calling for the protection of the common home. According to the needs of the plot, the elephant puppets will undergo a new round of design optimization, and the audience will see more animal puppets.
puppet theater actor Xing Yi practiced at home
Following the multimedia shadow play "Mulan", the Shanghai Puppet Theater intends to create a trilogy of shadow puppets, and will once again cooperate with the director of the traditional "114" 114 deer and Hu Xuehua story.
"Mulan" uses the black and white of Chinese ink painting as the background color, and the characters are stained with color, while "Nine Color Deer" will incorporate Dunhuang tones. Compared with traditional folk shadow puppets, Shanghai style puppetry will bring a new kind of drama watching Experience.
The classic work "The Crow and the Sparrow" and "The Second Reincarnation" of the Shanghai Burlesque Troupe will usher in the youth version this year. The former is a heritage and the latter will be a new creation. The script of
recorded for Wuhan
"The New Second Incarnation" by the Shanghai Funny Theater Company has not yet been finalized, but the overall issue still revolves around the issue of "If you are given a second chance to incarnate, will you have a happier life". The story will be more relevant to the present, encouraging young people to "happiness is the result of struggling" and to realize their dreams down-to-earth.
hatching methodically
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The "New Text Incubation Program" created by the Shanghai Dramatic Art Center has reached its fifth year, and the accumulation of scripts is also quite large. At present, the collection of new scripts, the polishing of old scripts, and the formal performance plan after the incubation are all started.
Currently, "Dream of Red Mansions" and are modifying the script based on the workshop in January, "Book of Beacon" and are preparing to rehearse, and "The Writer in Hell" and are also being revised.
"The Writer in Hell"
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Shanghai Song and Dance Troupe completed one hundred performances of the dance drama "The Electric Waves That Never Die" at the end of last year. While performing this year, it will start to incubate the dance drama "The Reed Girl" . The main creative team of
plans to complete the first round of topic selection incubation desk finishing in the first half of the year. The works are expected to meet with the audience in 2021.
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Shanghai Light Music Ensemble "Red Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Blue and Purple-An Immersive Multimedia Concert for the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Party" is also being hatched online by the chief creators.
reporter's notes: the promise of spring
Statistics show that from January 24 to the end of February, troupes and theaters of the Performing Arts Group cancelled and postponed 233 performances.
Fortunately, although it is impossible to rehearse and perform face-to-face, artists can spend this time focusing on polishing the script.
In 1988, the Shanghai Hepatitis A outbreak caused the Shanghai Burlesque Troupe to create the classic burlesque "GPT Abnormal".
"GPT Abnormal"
This new crown pneumonia epidemic has provided so many creative materials, tear-jerking, inspiring, nonchalant, gritted teeth, everything.
In the past half month, we have seen a series of outstanding works created by various institutes and groups to encourage the fight against the epidemic.
We are also looking forward to seeing more good works in the new works.
has not been out of the house for a long time, and it is especially nostalgic for the days in the theater. Although you can watch dramas and listen to concerts online, stage works are, after all, live art. The best way to watch is still to walk into the theater, feel the resonance of the sound field, feel the actor's magnetic field, and feel every subtle touch of the soul.
When the spring blossoms and the epidemic dissipates,
let us walk into the theater together,
to see how many masterpieces will be left.
new Performing Arts Studio
Author: Zhao Yue
Editor: Wu Xuying
Photo: courtesy organizers, some from the network
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