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Shanghai Daily Tuesday 24 April 2018 Jing鈥檃n C3
Drama festival to offer gamut of statecraft
Li Qian and Japan. Fourteen of the plays Modern Drama Valley and the in five streets with nearly 100 Tips:
will be Shanghai debuts, and six Edinburgh International Fes- theaters,鈥?he said. 鈥淧erformanc-
Modern Drama Val- will be staged on the Chinese tival. Further details are not es, often in different languages, Tickets are now
ley, Sha ngha i鈥檚 mainland for the first time. available. are staged every day. If people available on damai.
annual theatrical ex- go to Broadway, they know there cn. They range in
travaganza, is going 鈥淢odern Drama Valley should Lu Ang, director of the per- will be some drama to watch.鈥? price from 80 yuan
international this year, with a embrace global arts,鈥?said per- forming arts department of Bao Jingying, deputy district di- (US$12.80) to 580
particular focus on Lithuanian forming artist Jiao Huang, a the Shanghai Theatrr Academy, rector of Jing鈥檃n, said Modern yuan.
and Russian drama. member of the Art Committee said Modern Drama Valley is an Drama Valley will be Shanghai鈥檚
of Modern Drama Valley. excellent place to start build- 鈥渃ultural brand.鈥? The event, to be held May 5-23, ing a world-class theater hub in
will present 17 productions from Jing鈥檃n and the Scottish city Jing鈥檃n. Here are some of the top-flight
China, Russia, Lithuania, Po- of Edinburgh are in talks to performances on tap.
land, Australia, France, Britain build a relationship between 鈥淣ew York鈥檚 Broadway takes
Lithuanian Drama Festival
From May 17 to 23, Lithu- Bergman, who was married drama by Mikhail Lermontov.
ania鈥檚 State Small Theatre of five times and kept countless Chekhov鈥檚 鈥淭hree Sisters鈥?is
Vilnius will stage 鈥淎 Spiritual mistresses during his life, is another well-recognized ad-
Matter,鈥?鈥淭he Masquerade鈥? described as an astute ob- aptation by Tuminas.
and 鈥淭he Three Sisters鈥?at server of female behavior.
the Daning Theater. This play portrays a mad 鈥淓ston ia Youth Da i ly鈥? middle-aged woman seeking described Tuminas as the
鈥淎 Spiritual Matter鈥?is an self-redemption. director who knows how
adaptation of an Ingmar to express black humor to
Bergman script. It was chosen 鈥淭he Masquerade鈥?by Rimas perfection.
as one of the works this year Tuminas, a leading Lithua-
to commemorate the 100th nian director, is bringing one 鈥淭heater leads people to
anniversary of the legendary of the most successful inter- explore their true selves,鈥? Swedish director鈥檚 birth. pretations of this romantic Tuminas has said.
Oldest Russian theater
Russia鈥檚 oldest theater, the by Brecht.
262-year-old Alexandrinsky, 鈥淲hat really matters is to
will bring two masterpieces
to the stage in Shanghai. deliver his spirit instead of
focusing on the script,鈥?he
One is the Bertolt Brecht said.
classic 鈥淢other Courage and
Her Children,鈥?marking the The other play is a new
120th birthday of the Ger- adaption of 鈥淗amlet.鈥?Direc-
man theater icon. It was tor Vadim Levanov has set
adapted and produced by the scene in contemporary
Theodoros Terzopoulos, a society to present the con-
leading figure in European flicts of Shakespeare鈥檚 drama
theater. in a modern context.
Terzopoulos studied for 鈥淗is play looks like cover-
five years in the Berliner age of a news event,鈥?said
Ensemble, a theater founded Elena Gorfunkel, writing in
鈥淭he Drama Empire.鈥?
Japanese, French directors interpret classics
Top Japanese theater direc- 鈥淚 can think of nothing more by renowned Chinese writer
tor Tadashi Suzuki will stage dramatic than being forced to Lu Xun in 1921 in a novel of
鈥淭rojan Women,鈥?inspired by imagine a wretched, unpredict- the same name. Ah Q lived in
the tragedy of the same name able and inescapable fate,鈥?he the underclass, long oppressed
by Euripides. It will be first said. 鈥淚 think many Japanese who and deeply humiliated, but he
time the production has been survived the country鈥檚 defeat in deluded himself into believing
staged in the city. World War II feel the same.鈥? that he was spiritually superior
to everyone.
Using parts of the original French director Michel
text, Suzuki has created a Didym, known for staging the For Didym, Ah Q is a tragic
new play centered on an old Moli猫re classic 鈥淭he Imaginary character in a comedy setting.
Japanese woman remember- Invalid,鈥?will stage his version He represents humanity.
ing wartime plight. He said he of the Chinese classic 鈥淭he
wants to reveal how mankind True Story of Ah Q.鈥? 鈥淚ts value is beyond time and
suffers from war. place and can trigger echoes,鈥? Ah Q is a character created he said of the play.
Original China productions explore human mind
Several original productions Remembrance鈥?will be directed Cixi, Guangxu took a train to
will also be staged at the drama by Tian Qinxin. From a woman鈥檚 Northeast China, cradle of the
festival. perspective, the musical tells the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), to
story of a man trying to help his perform ancestral worship. En
鈥淟aoshe Short Stories鈥?is com- Alzheimer-afflicted girlfriend route, a Briton named John wins
posed of six humorous stories by look for her memories. favor with the emperor and the
Chinese novelist and dramatist Western-educated 鈥減rincess鈥?Der
Lao She. The drama 鈥淴iao Hong鈥? The drama 鈥淭he Imperial Ex- Ling.
is about renowned female writer press鈥?tells a story set in 1903,
Xiao Hong, who was gifted yet during the reign of Emperor Topics related to the fallen em-
ill-fated. Guangxu (1875-1908). Against pire and East-West cultural shock
the wishes of Empress Dowager are explored in a comedic style.
The musical 鈥淎 Moment of
