On October 29-30, 2022, the new drama "The Problem That Is Not a Problem" of Zhama Education will be officially performed at the Panhua Theater! This is the 13th original drama of the Zhuma Youth Theater. The drama is written by the famous British educational dramatist dramatist Chris Cooper and directed by Feng Xue, senior director of Zhuma.
// Repertory introduction //
This is an urban fable. The story takes place during the Spring Festival. Niu Niu and her parents stayed in the city where they worked for the first year for the New Year. Niu Niu, who did not return to her hometown for the New Year as usual, met an old man who often wandered in this city on the quiet street during the Spring Festival for the first time. She was covered with colorful plastic bags, which made her image even more "dazzling". Niu Niu has a strong interest in the behavior of collecting plastic bags by the old man who picks up scattered, and he hopes to know the secrets in these plastic bags. But what bothers her is that the existence of the old man who picks up scattered seems to be actively blocked and ignored by the people around her. "This problem that is not a problem" has brought new inspiration to Niu Niu herself and her family.
// Repertoire //
This is not a problem, until it becomes a problem
This story takes place in a modern city that we are all very familiar with. It is full of cold and hurry people. Only during the Spring Festival, this slightly empty city leaves little girl Niu Niu some space to discover the machinery and neglected by various sounds and noises.
City and hometown exist in very different forms. In the city, the tacit sense of distance between people, standard regulations, clear boundaries, and a work model of one carrot and one pit are organized by everyone living here. Returning home during the Spring Festival challenges all this. People can get infinitely close to each other's private life. All the rules are ambiguous and there is plenty of time to chat.
It breaks the new identity that people have finally established in the city, and has to face the "trauma" of childhood and have to deal with their primitive emotions. All the initial anxiety, pain, stress, loneliness, and frustration all came without any room for anything. All of this is very similar to the image of this trash-picking grandma. She came to her face. A beggar, a garbage picker should have existed silently, or was waiting quietly for death, but she was so bright that it attracted everyone's attention. But hiding and ignoring has become a common trick for adults, and they are used to avoiding everything that makes them embarrassed, contradictory, and painful. Because these feelings are useless. Just like the old lady who picked up scraps said in Niu Niu's dream: "Because you see it, this is a cruel problem. Most people don't see it, so it is not a problem for them."
For adults, children should do what you should do, forbid you shouldn't do, and avoid what you don't know how to do. So when the little girl was almost knocked down by a car, her mother only cared about her almost died; when the cold war in the family was not over, her father could only say that she would go out to eat a plate of dumplings; when she saw Niu Niu strolling at the school gate, Teacher Wu would only ask you why you didn’t go home, it was a violation of the regulations here. Not surprisingly, when the wolf-picking grandmother wanted to stay in the hospital for a while, the security guard immediately ruthlessly moved out the regulations: the hospital resources cannot be occupied here. Only by doing this can you avoid all "problems" and deal with life efficiently. All problems become no problem in an instant, but there are endless troubles.
Only Niu Niu can exist completely in every moment of her life, carefully pondering her inner emotions and feelings, and seeing those problems that are not a problem. But such reactions will always be cut off by an adult inadvertently, she is confined, “pulled” from trouble, asked to be quiet, etc. All feelings are in an unfinished state because they are not allowed to go through a process of identification, understanding and coping. Therefore, the emergence of dreams and imagination is very timely. Niu Niu is repairing these broken feelings and responding to her inner needs in a surreal way.
Until her feelings become stronger and stronger, until her feelings and responses are like the image of a grandmother, which makes people unable to escape, until she questions her father and tells her plans in full, her parents feel that they must respond to her inner curiosity, or deal with their inner avoidance of the surroundings.
There is no fierce conflict in the whole play, just like every moment in daily life. Through the perspective of the little girl Niu Niu, those moments that are not a problem are magnified; through the image of the old man who picks up scavengers, those hidden problems are focused. When the extremes in daily life are opened, whether it is a question will be decided by the audience.
// Director Introduction //
Director: Feng Xue | Senior Director and Lecturer of Zhuma Education
Feng Xue has been leading the Zhuma Youth Theater project since 2018. During this period, she adopted a rehearsal method that is closer to "living in the present" to help young actors be in an atmosphere of experience and improvisation in the performance. Director Feng Xue's works include "Exam", "Land", "The Problem Not a Problem", and the educational theater work "You and Me". The opening work "Examination" in the trilogy of "The Emperor's Children" performed at the Juyin Theater in Beijing at the end of 2018 has aroused strong response.
Feng Xue is currently the educational drama tutor of the Zhama Education Experience Center, and has gone to Trinity College in Ireland to study the major of educational drama in depth, and has obtained the China Certified Trainer of Education Drama of Trinity College in Ireland. He has more than twelve years of experience in educational drama course practice, course research and development, subject training, youth theater and educational theater director. Feng Xue focuses on the educational drama (DIE) courses for 3-8 years old and theatre projects for 7-12 years old. Through years of practice, she not only provides high-quality courses for her children, but also provides member families with targeted parental guidance manuals and family education programs, which are very popular among parents. Feng Xue has participated in the TIE project as a director and actor many times. He was invited to Beijing Normal University and Guangxi Normal University of Science and Technology to provide subject training for preschool education; provided special teaching guidance for China Children's Center, Xinglong Primary School and Hongying Primary School; he received training from international senior educational drama experts Li Yingning, Chris Cooper, and Konstantions Amoiropoulos and received high praise. From 2014 to 2016, Feng Xue participated in the international project of EU [Facing the Gap] as a Chinese representative, and went to Hungary , the UK and other places to carry out cross-training and educational drama workshops to exchange and share issues of youth education. In August 2015, he participated in the Chinese Education Society's key topic of "The Research and Practice of Educational Drama on the Cultivation of Innovative Thinking in Children and Adolescents", which made outstanding contributions to promoting the development of Chinese educational drama, and conducted in-depth research from the perspectives of family education consultation and emotional psychology .
// Actor information //
Wang Benxin (9 years old), Liu Yunuo (9 years old)
Liang Shuchen (10 years old), Peng Yiqin (10 years old)
Rao Han (10 years old), Zhang Ruoheng (11 years old)
Shao Mingmou (10 years old), Yang Shuhan (10 years old)
Li Xingzhou (11 years old), Wen Zhijie (10 years old)
Xuan Ruolin (11 years old), Liu Jingxi (11 years old)
Sheng Yuejia (12 years old), Gao Zuoyi (11 years old)
Fu Peiran (11 years old), Feng Yixuan (11 years old)
Zheng Guanyi (11 years old), Chen Dulan (11 years old)
Zhang Yutong (11 years old), Han Junhao (11 years old)
The thirteenth drama of the horse catching young man theater
"The problem that is not a problem"
October 29-30, 2022·Panhua Theater
Looking forward to seeing
// Performance information //
When performing
2022.10.29 (Saturday)｜14:30/19:30
2022.10.30 (Sunday)｜14:30/19:30
Suitable for age | Children over 5 years old and adults
performance Location
Basil Theater
No. 35, Dongmianhua Hutong, Dongcheng District, Beijing
Purchase Ticket Information
120 yuan/ticket
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Warm reminder
around the performance site. It is recommended that you take public transportation.
tickets are securities and are not ordinary commodities. The cultural services carried by them are timeliness and scarcity, and do not support ticket exchange.
Produced by | Zhama Education
Script | Chris Cooper
Collective creation | Zhama Youth Theater
Director | Feng Xue
Poster Design | Gao Zuoyi
Visual Concept | Xuan Ruolin
Stage Supervision | Xu Haixing, Huang Ziyun, Feng Yunfeng
Acknowledgement | Penghao Theater
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