2020 Lao She Theatre Festival Premiere "My Ideal Life" | See the Six Tastes of Life

drama "My Ideal Life",

drama "My Ideal Life" is co-created by director Wutong and the young creative team. It conducts in-depth exploration and interpretation of Lao She's works from contemporary perspectives and contemporary theater concepts. integrates innovative drama performance and stage design, uses contemporary audio-visual vocabulary to express the original classic text in three-dimensional and multi-dimensional, and pays tribute to the sages.

The addition of Western music broke the audience's consistent impression of Lao She's works, and made people's eyes bright. will definitely bring a unique live performance experience. In the romantic and passionate melody of the violin master Paganini, let us travel to the six folded parallel worlds described by Mr. Lao She, witness the reincarnation of human destiny, reflect on the present, and draw the power to move forward from suffering.

six flavors in one, a variation of an ode to fate,

travels through the darkest moments to see ideal life. What is the ideal life of

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"My Ideal Life" is based on Mr. Lao She's six works-prose "My Ideal Family", the one-act play "The Prestige on the Train" and the novel "The Good Man", "Crescent Moon", "Camel Xiangzi" and "Old Age" "Romance of Love"-expounds multi-dimensional thinking on this proposition

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More than 90% of the lines in this play use Lao She’s original exquisite text, strives to extract contemporary audiovisual vocabulary to give a new interpretation that is appropriate and different from the past.

One of the nine young actors selected from a hundred miles to play multiple roles, interprets the sentient beings in Lao She's writings. The ideal plumpness, stubbornness, brokenness, and rebirth are hidden in everyone's ups and downs.

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Many Lao She works debut on the stage

A new interpretation directly reaches the core of Lao She's literary spirit. Most of the six works selected in the play "My Ideal Life" are not part of the most familiar part of Lao She's works. Among them, the one-act play "The Prestige on the Train" was used as a play script, but it has never been formally put on the stage; "Crescent Moon" was led by Siqin Gaowa in 2006, after leaving the theater for many years; excerpts from this play The last three chapters of "Camel Xiangzi" have almost been abridged in all previous adaptations; "The Good Man" and "The Romance of Old Age" are rarely mentioned.

With the successive interpretations of the six works, all kinds of "ideals" of all living beings emerge one by one, and we will also see how they coexist with the "ideals", and finally resonate with ourselves. Lao She belongs not only to Beijing, but also to China. The deep humanistic care in his words transcends time and space, and it is worth reviewing the past and learning the new in different times, and "My Ideal Life" is one of the attempts.

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Paganini violin caprice

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drama "My Ideal Life" selects the "Twenty-Four Caprices" by Italian violin master Paganini throughout the performance. The melody of Caprice is simple and clear, and the extremely rich rhythm changes will bring unexpected rhythm to the whole performance.

Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840), an Italian violin and guitar player and composer, belongs to the late European classical music school and early romantic music musician. He is one of the most famous violin masters in history and has made many innovations in violin playing techniques.

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youth lineup pays tribute to Lao She

giving youth vitality to the work

All the roles in this play are played by nine young actors, who will share nearly 40 characters. Personality, switch before different identities and different ages. This was a difficult attempt, but it also inspired everyone's creative enthusiasm.

pays tribute to literature in the name of drama

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pays tribute to the sages with youthful character

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"Lao She is not old".

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zz to our ideal life 2 vertical axis z3 The three contemporary youths under the rain and dew incarnate as Lao She in different identities, tell the original works, play the characters in the play, and combine the prose "My Ideal Family", the novella "Crescent Moon", the short story "Old Age Romance", and the short story "The Good Man" "," the novel "Camel Xiangzi" and the one-act play "The Prestige on the Train" and other six works are integrated in an ideal format with the appearance of the original editing. What is the ideal of the "Crescent Moon" mother and daughter? What is Liu Xingren's ideal? What is the ideal of "good people"? What are the ideals of Xiangzi and Ruan Ming? What are the ideals of Mr. Ma and Xiaochafang? "

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" The young people’s perspective examines and contemplates the above-mentioned questions and thinks together with everyone. In the old world where there is nowhere to put ideals, how everyone’s ideals were destroyed and self-mutilated, so cherishes today’s hard-won Live a happy life, be grateful for the new era, and embrace the new future . In short, we will devote ourselves to creating with our original intentions of art, paying tribute to literature in the name of drama, and paying tribute to the sages with youthful character.

, whose real name is Jiang Tonglin, is a drama critic, screenwriter, director, and executive vice president of the Chinese Theatre Literature Association. Main works: drama review monograph "Drama Archives"; Beijing opera "Xu Beihong", Beijing opera "Autumn Wind", experimental opera "Dream Chaser", drama "Realize Breakthrough", Beijing opera musical "Mrs. Jian", Hebei Bangzi " "Taicheng Liu", Pingju "Menghuiyang Bridge", one-man drama "Chu Yun" and experimental drama "Cicada-Three Winds of Clouds and Rain", etc.; there are also works and dramas such as the movie "Shansheng", the novel "Enjoy Hardship", etc. Hundreds of reviews on film, variety shows and sports.

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dance director 丨 Liu Boyan

China Oriental Song and Dance Troupe director, national first-level choreographer. He has been invited many times to be the executive director and dance director of dozens of large-scale events and evening shows in the Ministry of Culture, CCTV, and various provinces and cities. Representative works: Drama Fantasy City "Only Mount Emei", Shanghai Disney Residency Show "Golden Fairy Tale Ceremony", Music Theater "Our Love Story", etc.

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Deputy Director 丨 Wang Xiangyu

screenwriter, director, actor, main works "Ching Ming", "Lion Camel Ridge", "We" and so on.

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stage art design 丨 Ren Siyuan

graduated from the Chinese Academy of Opera, a young stage art designer, and a member of the Chinese Academy of Stage Art. Design works: The famous costume designer Guo Pei's 2018 Paris Fashion Week Haute Couture Fashion Show; Beijing Peking Opera Theater Guo Baochang's classic adaptation of Peking Opera "The Great Mansion Gate" 2018 National Quality Project; Beijing Peking Opera Opera "Jade Guanyin", "Spring Banquet", "Hero Han Wusong" "; Wang Chaoge Holland Flower Sea Drama Fantasy City Theater Space Chief Stage Design Design; Oscar original drama "Flying Over the Cuckoo's Asylum"; Shanghai Drama Arts Center Drama "No Dream on Pillow"; cross-border drama "Strange Dog TAOTAO", etc.

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lighting design 丨 He Yilin

member of Chinese Academy of Stage Art, member of Chinese Musical Theatre Association. The main design works include: Peking Opera "The Great Mansion Gate", "Wu Song", "Guan Yin of Grinding Jade", "Spring Banquet", "Shoot of Horseshoes", etc.; drama "Miss Harbin", "Flying over the Madhouse", "Guangling San", "Warm Alone", etc.; musicals "Lambo" Chinese version, "The Big Monster in the Forbidden City" series "Nine to Five" Chinese version, etc.

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costume design丨 Lei Jinwei

acted as the costume design work for many national large-scale events; stage works: song and dance show "Zhang Guo's Arms", "Lu Yu and Li Jilan", "Fantastic Travel", "Yelang", "Qihuangzhi", " "Dream of Jiuzhai", "Penglai Wonderland", "The Legend of Dayang Mountain", "The Year in a Hurry", "The Lion King", "Wild Zebra", "Swan Lake", "Youth and the Sea", "Red Star Yang", "Shanhai Jing", etc.; acrobatics "The Big Four" "Beauty", "Change the World"; Musical "Trash Baby", "Galao", "Temptation of the Forest", "Song of the Wandering", "Adventure of 12 Laughs", etc.; Drama "New Tea House", "Strange Dog TOTAO", "Ponzi Scam" "Do you still play the guitar" etc.

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makeup design 丨 Hu Mingming

graduated from the Central Academy of Drama. Main works: The make-up design, production and performance of the National Centre for the Performing Arts "Norma"; the make-up, production and performance of the National Centre for the Performing Arts "Tanghesai". The chief makeup artist of Meng Jinghui's studio is the overall makeup designer for works such as "Bug" and "Mermaid by the Dead Water".

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music editor 丨 Han Chiayi

has worked as a singer, micro film, enterprise and other arranger and recording work. Served as the arranger for the theme song of Air China "Let Love Be on the Journey".

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actor 丨 Chen Meilin

young actor, graduated from the Central Academy of Drama Musical. Participated in film and television works: "The Hunter in the Heart", "You From the Ocean", "The Surprise of Sparrow 2", "The Youth That Passed By", etc.

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actor 丨 Zhang Yingxue

young actor, graduated from the performance department of the Royal Scottish Academy of Dramatic Art. Participated in drama works: "Seagull", "Xin Bailin", "Suicide Analysis", "Enron", "Kilig", "The Tempest", "One Servant and Two Masters", etc.; film and television works: "The Offer".

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actor 丨 Yang Wanying

young actor, graduated from the acting department of the Central Academy of Drama. Participated in drama works: "Once upon a time there was a mountain", "Happy Events", "Anna Christie", "Old-fashioned Comedy", "Qi Tian Left Zou Eleven", "Mountain Residence", etc., cooperated with the Hong Kong Repertory Company to perform "Hong Kong Impression" in Hong Kong.

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actor 丨 Zhang Naiyu

young actor, graduated from the Acting Department of the Central Academy of Drama. Participated in stage plays: "The Soul of Red Rock", "Qu Yuan", "War Horse", "Prairie Soldiers", "Tang Yin and Qiuxiang", "Big Snow", etc.; film and television works: "OursSouthwest Associated University, "Come on, Qiao Mai" and so on.

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actor 丨 Xu Ao

young actor, graduated from the acting department of the Central Academy of Drama. Acting as the male number one in the tour of "Peach Blossom Fan", a graduate of the 2016 performance department of the Central Academy of Drama.

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actor 丨 Shao Yipe

young actor, graduated from the Department of Drama at Emory University in the United States. Participated in drama works: "Happy Everyone", "I Am the Moon", "Pillow Man", "8090", etc.; film and television works: "Animal Administration", "Commie Manifesto", "Promise To Go GO", "Lonely Beast", etc.

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actor 丨 Wang Muzhi

young actor, graduated from the acting department of Beijing Film Academy. Participated in the drama works: "Assassin", "February", "Birdman", "Thunderstorm", "Tea House", "White Deer Plain", "Ball Sword", "Death of a Salesman", "The Witch of Salem", "No Life", "Chaos" "Earl of Wulong Mountain" and so on.

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actor 丨 Ma Yuexiang

young actor, graduated from the Acting Department of the Central Academy of Drama. Participated in drama works: "Seagull", "Beijing", "The Wilderness", "Sunrise", "Tea House", "No Survival", "All My Sons", "Romulus the Great", etc.; film and television works: "Muscus Flower Xiyue" "Splendid", "Grow up overnight", "Shackled Heart" and so on.

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Actor/Violinist 丨 Yao Jiahan

is a young actor who is studying Kunqu Opera at the Chinese Opera Academy. Participated in opera works: "Three Stores", "Xialu City", "Peony Pavilion", "Broken Bridge", "Eternal Life Palace·Small Banquet", etc.; film and television works: "Love and Love Family", "The Last Three Kingdoms", "Far Away, Deathly Love", " "Two-dimensional Game", "Mom Don't Leave Me", "Tian Mi Guo Primary School", etc. The production unit of

Lao She Drama Festival was initiated by the Beijing Performance Company and co-hosted with Tianqiao Art Center. Since its establishment in 2017, the festival has been organized with the purpose of "calling the spirit of drama literature", with the theme of "people's emotions, humanistic care, national language, and international vision", carefully planning drama performances and experience activities, popularization and promotion Drama art creates a theater cultural space with theater throughout the city, enhances the cultural vitality and influence of Beijing as a national cultural center, and allows theater culture to infiltrate the lives of Beijing residents.

Lao She Drama Festival has been successfully held for three years and has become one of Beijing's influential cultural brand activities. This year, the 4th Lao She Theatre Festival once again met the audience in Beijing.

This drama festival is supported by the Beijing Culture and Art Fund. It is divided into two major sections: repertoire performances and "drama teahouse" cultural activities. It will bring audiences more than ten domestic and foreign drama works from October to December, as well as multiple shows Diverse and diverse drama theme activities.

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