Theater Needs a Lifeline
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of modern
Chinese drama. For a century, after the efforts of generations of
artists, local drama has grown to become an art form with Chinese
characteristics and an important part of China's stage
performances.?????? More...
The Dramatic Story of
Drama?? By TANG YUANKAI
Once a tool for social reform, then a popular art form, now
China's modern theater is under threat from market forces
A group of students deadlocked over how to stage a play about
Chinese actors a hundred years ago, pondered the ideas of three
different directors, and ended up lost in the essence of drama.
That is the story told in Xunzhao Chunliushe, or Finding The Spring
Willow Drama Club, a play staged recently to mark the centennial
birthday of Chinese modern drama, which "originated from the West,
but has developed into something with vigorous Chinese
characteristics," according to Wang Weiguo, a researcher on the art
form. More...
Cultural Fusion on
Stage?? By TANG YUANKAI
The localization of foreign plays has proved popular with
Chinese audiences
"For a long time plays have been a window for Chinese people to
breathe into different cultural atmospheres," said Yu Qiuyu, a
famous writer and former head of the Shanghai Theater Academy.
Plays have played a remarkable role in China in the last 100 years
as the harbingers of cultural fusion between Chinese and Western
culture, according to Yu.???????
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Crazy for Plays
Sour-sweet feelings of famous directors and actors about
Chinese plays
ACTOR'S PARADISE: Capital Theater, affiliated to the Beijing
People's Art Theater group, has been operating since 1955 and
continues to attract audiences. It is also a venue where the
Theater's repertoire including Teahouse and Thunderstorm is
performed.???????? More...
Director Scoops Top Film
Award
Chinese film director Tian Zhuangzhuang walked away with the
best director award at the 10th Shanghai International Film
Festival that concluded on June 24.?? More...
