Monodrama - The Old Man and the Sea10.21-22 19:15 New Space Theater, STA
The work is based on The Old Man and the Sea, one of the most famous novel of E. M. Hemingway. The suppositive way and the realistic style used by it shapes the collision and fusion between Chinese culture and the Western. Its stylization, virtuality, minimalism and form sense are the basic principles that have formed the work. What performs in the stage is a recreation of the work with the elements of traditional Chinese theatrical art. The combination of traditional impressionism and modern realism in the field of drama shortens the mental distance between stage and audience and also creates a special experience in both real life and art performance for the audience.
Ma Xiao
At the age of 9, MA Xiao started practicing Peking Opera and specialized in male martial arts roles. He has performed kabuki drama New Three Kingdom in Japan for 300 performances over the span of three years. At 19, he attended the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts majoring in Drama. After graduation, he became an instructor at the academy and directed an experimental Peking Opera version of "Romeo and Juliet" and devised performance of Russian poet Konstantin Simonov’s "Wait For Me". In the past 10 years, Ma has developed his own artistic style through acting, directing, script-writing, and continuously researching new ways to fuse traditional Chinese Opera with drama. At the same time, under the mentorship of Zhang Jiasheng, Ma studied audio language. He published several articles from his research and brought Chinese opera, drama and speech programs to local primary and secondary schools.
