Source title: Return to the theater to regain the beauty Shanghai Drama Art Center will issue tickets for the first round of performances from July 5
With the orderly development of the Shanghai Theater’s re-enactment work, the Shanghai Drama Art Center will start from July, including “The Awakening Age”, “The Wilderness”, “The Guizhou Academy”, “Every Wonderful Little Thing” and “No One Survives”. Offline rehearsals and performances have been resumed one after another. The work of performance approval application and theater environment sterilization is also progressing in an orderly manner. It is expected that the first round of performances will be billed from July 5th. The new round of annual actor recruitment has also recently completed the first round of resume collection and selection.
“The Wilderness” kicks off the second half of the show
The “Going to the Beautiful Together” summer re-enactment season jointly created by Shanghai Media Group and its 7 academies and 9 theaters will start on July 8. A group of well-received and popular “Shanghai Originals” will be in the premiere. The assembly trumpet sounded every day, bringing the audience back to the long-lost beauty of the theater, and also helping and empowering the overall recovery of Shanghai performances. As one of the repertoires of Shanghai Wenguang Performing Arts Group’s “Together to the Beautiful” summer performance season, it is produced and produced by Shanghai Dramatic Art Center, directed by director He Nian and drama master Cao Yu’s classic masterpiece “The Wilderness” will open the second half of the Shanghai Dramatic Art Center The first repertoire of the performance curtain will be staged at the Art Theatre of Shanghai Dramatic Art Center from July 14 to July 24.
In “The Wilderness”, Cao Yu not only showed vivid and complex characters, but also borrowed the artistic methods of Western expressionism and combined it with realism. On the premise of not changing the core and lines of the original work, He Nian’s version of “The Wilderness” cuts in from the perspective of Qiu Hu, boldly adjusts the structure of the script, pays special attention to the expression of the characters’ psychology and inner emotions, and uses the “under the reading” training method to Stimulate the imagination of actors, and strengthen the use of expressionist methods such as suspense, limbs, and stream of consciousness to interpret and excavate human nature. Since its premiere in 2017, it has been five years since the performance and has received rave reviews along the way.
Rehearsal of the stage play “Age of Awakening” in progress
As one of the key projects of Shanghai Drama Art Center in 2022, the stage play “Age of Awakening”, adapted from the TV series of the same name, has completed the offline script workshop on February 20, 2022. During the epidemic, online cloud creation and arrangement were carried out. Work, many rounds of polishing and perusing the script. It has returned to the rehearsal hall in June to start an orderly offline rehearsal work, and plans to perform the first round of rehearsal performances in late August.
The stage play “Age of Awakening” is adapted from the TV series of the same name and produced by the Shanghai Dramatic Art Center. The original work was written by Long Pingping, the national first-class screenwriter Yu Rongjun of Shanghai Drama Art Center served as the screenwriter, and the national first-class director of Shanghai Drama Art Center was directed by He Nian. In the days when the theater was not open, the rehearsal of the stage play “Age of Awakening” was changed from offline to online, and nearly ten script reading sessions were organized. The stage play version is not a condensed TV series of the same name, but more of a re-creation on the basis of the original, excavating, selecting and using a more stage-like form to reflect in the theater.
Shanghai style drama footprints will be spread across 14 cities
From July 15th, the annual national tour of Shanghai Drama Art Center will also start one after another: “No Life”, “Dream of Red Mansions”, “Maze of Heart”, “Abyss”, “I Don’t Want to Be Friends with You”, “Accidental Visitor”, “12 People” Such repertoires have been performed all over the country, bringing quality, creativity and diversity to audiences in more than 10 cities including Nanjing, Ningbo, Changsha, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Wuxi, Tianjin, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Wuxi, Xi’an, Wuhan, Haikou and Henan. The repertoire produced by the Shanghai Dramatic Art Center.
In order to pay tribute to the volunteers in this round of epidemic prevention work, Shanghai Drama Art Center offers them discounted fares. From now until December 31, 2022, audiences who present their Shanghai New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Volunteer Service Certificate or “Volunteer Anti-epidemic Thank You” Volunteer Service Commemorative Certificate to purchase plays produced by Shanghai Drama Art Center can enjoy every A 15% discount on the purchase of up to four tickets for each show.
After more than three months of “suspended” offline performances, they are actively seeking changes
Since March 11, 2022, the offline performances suspended due to the epidemic have not stopped Shanghua from creating and presenting. The high-definition drama of “Yiqi Forward Cloud Theater”, which will be launched on March 12, will be broadcast free of charge. It continued to be broadcast live on 77 antennas, with a total of 12 broadcasting platforms, 53 plays, and 88 screenings, with over 25 million viewers. In addition, the “Drama Cloud Lectures” represented by “The Humanistic Spirit and the Presentness of Life Aesthetics” and “Xia Yanhe”; 14 events under the three major themes of “Drama Cloud Dialogue”, “Don’t Let Inspiration Slip away” and “Listen to How Creators “Wake Up” the Audience” are also regularly presented online for free to the audience in the form of live broadcasts. The number of participants reached 430,000.
In addition, during the epidemic, the Shanghai Drama Art Center was brave in innovation and actively seeking changes, and tried a variety of theatrical industrial explorations that broke the limitations of theater space: On April 6, 2022, the Shanghai Drama Art Center produced the drama “Dream of Red Mansions” as the theme. The first digital collection has issued a total of 88,000 copies, of which 6 hand-painted versions of the main characters in the play have been issued, with a total of 48,000 copies, and 4 models of performance classic scenes have been released, with a total of 40,000 copies. A favorite of art collectors, they are all sold out as soon as they go on sale. On June 13th, we joined hands with Damai.com and Youku Video to create “NEXTHEATRE”. The performance images of the five dramas “Uncle Vanya”, “Shang Yang”, “The Scholar and the Executioner”, “A Doll’s House” and “The Gadfly” were remade in high-definition. In the form of limited-time pay-on-demand, it brings audiences a gluttonous feast of drama that can be enjoyed anytime, anywhere.
Appendix: Shanghai Drama Art Center’s July-August Performance Preview
1. Drama “The Wilderness”
Performance time: July 14th – July 24th
Venue: Shanghai Drama Art Center • Art Theatre
2. The play “Noble School”
Performance time: July 29-August 14
Venue: Shanghai Drama Art Center • Art Theatre
3. The play “Every Wonderful Little Thing”
When: Mid-August
Venue: Shanghai Drama Art Center • Drama Salon
4. Agatha Christie’s masterpiece “No One Survives”
When: From July 15th
National tour: Nanjing, Ningbo, Changsha, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Wuxi, Hangzhou, etc.
Under the Roof of Shanghai>Dream of Red Mansions> (Wang Yongjuan)