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Physical Theatre - Right but left

Its a drama of "relationships". The creation comes from the lonely sentiment and confusion the creator still catches walking among the crowd. Such unspeakable feelings, go beyond words for expression and the stories are created more through the catch of intuition. To the left of the right, and to the right of the left. Endless stories weave into the distance of romantically bitter connotations and beautiful but cruel poems between people and people, and between human and the world. Zhao MiaoTheatre director. In 1996, he founded Theatre SanTuoQi in Beijing and has been its director ever since. He is also the Teacher of Directing Department of the Central Academy of Drama. "Sad Humor" and "Magnificent Imagination" are the unique features of Zhao Miaos plays, while manifesting a "physical poetry" is his pursuit and relentless exploration. Till 2023 he has created more than 40 stage works. Zhao Miao is a significant trailblazer in the field of physical drama creation, research and education in China.

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Drama - The Fade, The Blue

Winter it is. A desolate and barren community stands amongst the wuthering wind, like the end of the world. A man returns to his empty house, searching for a secret hidden within the two-bedroom house. He is about to tell a memory that is kept here, a love story that takes place during the time of quarantine. A man, and a woman. An upstair room and a downstair one. Everything unfolds at twelve oclock midnight in the first room, and everything ends at six oclock morning in the second room. Progress is constantly stagnated, communication blocked by languages, and bodies separated by the ceiling. The illusionist downstairs curls up in his room, measuring the distance between himself and life. The new tenant upstairs reverses day and night, weaving an ensemble of noises and whispers. The man, and the woman, conflicted by time and connected through sound, gradually walk into each others heart after fourteen sleep-aiding ASMR nights. The indistinct sound from upstairs still lingers around the mans ears. Love of young birds, intertwining with the history of the community, gives the faded buildings a new coat of color. He wanders through the gray courtyard like a ghost, trapped in the cycle of repetitive memories. How can he turn the fleeting love into eternity? Ma Xuan Ma Xuan graduated from the Dramatic Literature Department of the Central Academy of Drama. She directed the online theater production White Night and participated in the 15th Beijing Fringe Festival. Her original script "This Morning and Last Nights Dream" was selected for the Shanghai YOUNG Theater GOAT Special Youth Theater Exhibition Drama Reading Unit. As a playwright, she collaborated with the New Youth Group on three adaptation works: Metamorphosis, World on a Wire and The Master and Margarita. These works have been invited to participate in prestigious art festivals such as Wuzhen Theater Festival and Aranya Theater Festival for multiple times.

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Drama - Barren Land

Welcome to the future after tens of thousands of years. The earth is overexploited and the land, all barren. Most human beings have migrated to the outer planet while the last group of them are waiting to be picked up. Unable to grow crops, the last of human beings left on earth survive on airdropped nutrition packs, which are scientifically formulated by chemical nutritional reagents. Nutrition packs are decreasing, but the number of people, keeps growing. Everyone scrambles for the nutrition packs, except for one person, because every day when he wakes up, his locker is already filled with delicious food. Day in day out, he doesn`t know where all this food comes from and he carefully hides this secret until he discovers that he can use the food to control all peoples fate. Gradually, he becomes greedy and mad. His discontented desire is like a black hole, devouring others, like it is devouring himself. Falling, falling, completely falling into the unfathomable darkness and, suddenly the point of light shedding life in the very beginning, flashes across his mind... But this time, will hope fall from the above, again? Ivy ShaoLevel III scriptwriter, member of Shanghai Theatre Association. Ivy graduated from Film and Television Arts Department of Shang Film Academy, Shanghai University, and further pursued advanced study in Drama Literature Department of Shanghai Theatre Academy. She was supported by National Art Fund for young artistic talents and Shanghai Culture Development Foundation for young scriptwriters. She has also won Lao She Youth Theatre and Drama Literature Award, China Outstanding Original Script Award with Political and Legal Theme, Finalist Award of Theatre and Drama China, and Golden Thrushcross Excellent Childrens Script Award, etc. Ivy Shaos major scriptwriter works: Play Echo of the Niyang River, Musical Ancient God of Drought, Play Qingpu Police Story, Childrens Play Fantastic Garden, Musical Tale of Wuxia, Play Walking alone at Midnight, Childrens Play Amazing Friends, etc. Li HaiyuanMaster candidate of Directing Department of Shanghai Theatre Academy, young director, and choreographer. Li Haiyuans works include: Play Gone with the River, Play Death of the Law Officer, Dance Theatre White and Black Fish, Literary Drama Homecoming, etc. She has won the Best Director Award of Dream Chasing Drama Festival, Think Youth Drama and Dance Award, and has joined the First-class Graduate Education Leading Program of STA and made it into the final selection of the Beijing Nanluogu Lane Theatre Festival for two consecutive years. Meanwhile, Li Haiyuans works have been successively performed in the 11th Shanghai International Little-theatre Festival and Asia-Pacific Bond of Theatre Schools Conference Festival.

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Visual Yue Opera - Vision

The play is based on Lao Shes one and only romance novel Vision, which is based on the authors first love story, and can be considered as an autobiographical work. The figure of Lao Shes first love has also appeared many times in his other masterpieces. The play retains the narrative of the original work, through stream of consciousness. In the play, there is a leading role - I. Following the leading role through the multilayered space built up by reality, dream, memory, and fantasy, the audience will pursue the truth of this seemingly beautiful love tragedy. The memoir is a mixture of truth and falsehood, which is like a maze of consciousness. The haziness of first love encounter, the huge difference in identity, the missing out on their love, the wane of the family, the mans runaway and return, the womans falling into a prostitute and her death. In form, the play gives full play to the lyricism and performance characteristics of Yue opera combining virtuality and reality, blends images and videos into live stage performance, and fuses Yue opera music with electronic music. The stage designed as a "Memory Garden", the play features a new theatrical performance mode through use of various elements, exploring the interpretation of literature onto theatrical scenes and the conversion from literary rhetoric to theatrical rhetoric, bringing audience an immersive experience into the world of consciousness. Wang WannaWang Wanna is currently a young actress with Shanghai Yue Opera Troupe, and a representative of a new generation of disciples in "Xu (Yulan) Artistic Style". She graduated from Shanghai Theatre Academy, majoring in Xiao Sheng (Young Male Character), and studied under the guidance of Wang Xiuyue, a famous actress, and Qian Huili, a contemporary Yue Opera artist. Previous Works: Dream of the Red Chamber (Hong Lou Meng), Prince Liu Chen (Bei Di Wang), Chasing Fish (Zhui Yu), The Romance of West Bower (Xi Xiang Ji), Jade Hairpin (Yu Zan Ji), The Legend of Chunxiang (Chunxiang Zhuan), A Midsummer Nights Dream (Zhong Xia Ye Zhi Meng), Twelve Characters (Shi Er Jiao Se), Red Chamber: The Music Theatre of Yue Opera, and many others.Previous Awards: In 2013, Wang Wanna was selected as one of the top ten contestants in the student category at CCTV Yue Opera Competition, and won the runner-up prize. In 2017, she received the "Newcomer Award" (Large-scale Works) in Shanghai Stage Art Works Selection Exhibition. In 2018, she received the "Newcomer Leading Character Award" at the 28th Shanghai Magnolia Drama Performance Awards. In 2019, she was selected for the 7th Shanghai Literature and Art Award "Young Artists Development Program", and won the "Golden Art Award" in the "Yuemei Zhonghua" National Yue Opera Youth Actors/Actresses Grand Performance. In 2021, she received the "Silver Award" at the "Leixiang Zhonghua" National Youth Opera Invitational Tournament. In 2022, she received the Shanghai Youth May Fourth Medal (for Individual). Zhu Yanming Zhu Yanming received her Bachelors degree in Industrial Design from Tongji University and her Master degree of Fine Arts (MFA) in Stage Art Design from Shanghai Theatre Academy. In recent years, Zhu Yanming has been involved in the following productions as a scenic designer: Yue Opera The Dreamers Reverie (Yi Meng Ren) and Kun Opera Lady Yuefei (Yuefei Furen). She was the overall planner for the small theater production of Yue Opera Testing the Wife (Shi Qi) and the director and multimedia designer for the contemporary light and shadow show Poets Dreams of Flowers (Zuihuaing). She was the multimedia designer for the Yue Opera concert Boudoir (Gui) Show and the little theater Kun Opera production Peach Blossom and Beauty (Taohua Renmian). She was the director and the film art designer for Yue Opera microfilms Her (Ta)! and Song of The Fishermen (Yuguang Qu). Zhu Yanming has also published papers such as The Coexistence of Reality and Illusion - A Perspective on the Development of Stage Art in Yue Opera Reforms and The Breakthrough and Establishment of Traditional Opera Broadcasting in the Era of All-Media.

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