The Paper's reporter Pan Yu
This year's April 23 is the 27th World Book Day, and the Shanghai Grand Theatre and its YOUNG Theater and Shanghai West Bund Grand Theatre will hold their first online linkage activities on the same day. The three theaters will invite more than a dozen Chinese and foreign artists to serve as the "joint leaders" of literary and artistic food, and from 10:00 a.m., they will bring twelve consecutive hours of live relay broadcasts of literature and art. Today, when the "head of the group" in Shanghai turned out to be born, the first online activity of the "Onishi YOUNG Gathering" has also become an "online literary and art group purchase".
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According to this, the content of the "group purchase list" was finally promoted by the three theaters to issue invitations to the artist's circle of friends, including different types of activities such as online performance broadcasting, behind-the-scenes visits, interactive readings, art lectures, and music connections. The troupe and guests participating in the live broadcast included the Royal Ballet "The Story of Winter", the Experimental Frenzy Theatre Company "Hamlet on the Street", "Hamlet: From The World to the World" and other programs, as well as artists such as Chen Liyi, Dominic Dromgoole, Xie Junhao, Ma Liang, Xiaohe, Zhu Hongxuan and other artists.
In 12 hours, the audience can watch good plays and classics, and the audience can watch free live broadcasts (such as Sina Weibo, WeChat video number, Douyin, Bilibili, Little Red Book and other platforms) through the social official accounts of the Shanghai Grand Theatre, YOUNG Theatre and Shanghai West Bund Theatre, and spend World Book Day together.
Shakespeare is an important theme of this live broadcast
April 23 is World Book Day and Shakespeare's Day of Remembrance. Shakespeare will be a major theme in the "Reading Place Is Not Lonely, There Is a Spring in the Drama" activity, at which time, the performance broadcast, art education, public interaction and other links will lead the audience to appreciate the eternal charm of Shakespeare beyond time and space and region.
Among them, Dominique deRomgour, the Chinese director of the stage play Frankenstein and the former artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, planned a two-year global tour of Hamlet in 197 countries on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth in 2014. The tour was fraught with difficulties, challenging wars, viruses, and cultural differences, and was later codified as "Hamlet Globe To Globe with Shakespeare Around the World." The "Onishi YOUNG Gathering" invited director Dominique DeRomgul to explore how this drama, written in the 16th century, touched the hearts of people in different countries and regions around the world, and how it affected and changed the world of theater.
Hamlet on the Street event poster
Bai Shangwu, a young director of "Xiao NianQing", and the Experimental Fanatical Theater Troupe were invited to bring a contemporary theatrical work adapted from the classic text, Hamlet on the Street. At that time, the actors will walk along Songjiazhuang Avenue in Beijing's Fengtai District, narrating the interpretation, and working with the Audience in Shanghai to complete this "synchronic walking drama" online and offline.
Director Chen Liyi will interpret Shakespeare on the live broadcast
In addition, the live broadcast will connect with director Chen Liyi to observe the real-time rehearsal process of the happy twist version of "The Merchant of Venice", and chat with Director Chen about shakespeare and his interpretation and understanding of shakespeare and his works.
The Art Class of the Shanghai Grand Theatre will bring gold-medal lecturer Han Bin's "Seeing Words as Faces: Verdi and Shakespeare", analyzing the musical life of composers and the Shakespeare elements in Verdi's opera works. Shakespeare's romantic work "The Winter's Tale", tailored for the Royal Ballet by internationally renowned new generation choreographer Christopher Wilden, will be re-aired as one of the time-limited returns of the Shanghai Grand Theatre's "Tour Zero Station", which is considered a masterpiece of modern narrative ballet.
Ballet "Winter's Tale"
Theater people bring a unique reading experience to the audience
Held on World Book Day, the "Onishi YOUNG Gathering" hopes to create a companion reading experience for the audience in a theatrical way.
Chinese Hong Kong drama and film and television actor Xie Junhao will share an excerpt from the novella "Opposite" by Liu Yihuan, the grandmaster of hong Kong's new literary generation, in Cantonese. The work is full of dramatic tension, showing the interlacing of memories and expectations through the parallel method of narrative two-line, which has become the source of inspiration for Wong Kar-wai's film "Fancy Years".
Dramatists take you to Read "Dissenting Moments: The Ginsburg Justice Who Made a Mess of Statements"
Zhu Hongxuan, founder of Peking University Nine, will read excerpts from the biography of female Justice Ruth Bud Ginsburg, "Moments of Dissent", and interact with the audience online. Referring to the reasons for choosing this book, Zhu Hongxuan said: "If we often feel discouraged in real life, then the difficulties she has faced will only be a hundred times greater; if we are worried about our lack of ability, then she has set us an example of continuous effort: Ginsburg, who cannot be taken away by the god of death, she fought until the age of 87." ”
Zhai Song, the actor of the Chinese version of the musical "Brothers Karamazov", will bring excerpts from the novel "Brothers Karamazov" by the literary giant Dostoevsky, and the reading will be carried out in the form of interactive microphones, and Zhai Song and the audience who successfully signed up will play the roles together.
Visual artist Ma Liang will also bring excerpts from the biographical collection "Undercover on Earth".
Ma Liang reads the autobiographical novel "Undercover on Earth"
In addition, music will also participate in the live broadcast in various ways. Folk musician Xiao he and independent animator and filmmaker Ma Weijia will launch a "Push the Window to See the Mountains and The Sea" twin-city connection chant in their homes in Beijing and Shanghai. The new generation of musical theater actor Shi Bowie will bring "from sound to body" voice decompression training, sharing the secret of musical theater actors' scientific vocalization. Zhang Qindan, a young musical theater actor, will bring a small home exercise class to experience the fun of home sports with a period of aerobic dance exercises that promote heart and lung vitality.
Onishi YOUNG concept poster
Onishi YOUNG Gathering
"Great West YOUNG Gathering" is a public cultural and artistic exchange gathering place initiated by Shanghai Grand Theatre, YOUNG Theatre and Shanghai West Bund Grand Theatre, focusing on the performing arts industry. The YOUNG Theater in Yangpu, which will open this year, and the Shanghai West Bund Theater, which will open in 2023 at Xuhui Binjiang, are both operated and managed by the Shanghai Grand Theatre.
"Gathering field", taking the "theater" homophone, is not limited to the traditional concept of venue, but is intended to create a convergence field that loves performing arts and stage scene. In the future, "Onishi YOUNG Gathering" will advocate spontaneous, innovative and integrated art communication life through the planning of online and offline art seasons, and create a diversified, inclusive, linkage and sharing performing arts ecosystem.
Appendix: Onishi YOUNG Gathering "Reading is not lonely, there is a play and a spring" literary and art group buys online program content
1 10:00-10:20 Musical theater actors take you to open your voice Spervey
2 10:30-11:00 "Hamlet: From the Globe to the World" Sharing Session Dominique de Romagul
3 11:15-11:55 Drama people read with you
Selected Readings of Liu Yihuan's "Opposite Upside Down" (in Cantonese) Xie Junhao
4 12:15-13:00 Shanghai Grand Theatre Art Class Special Event
"See literally: Verdi and Shakespeare" Han Bin
5 13:15-14:00 Drama people read with you
"Dissenting Moments" Fragment Selection & Online Interaction Zhu Hongxuan
6 14:00-15:00 Happy Twist Drama "The Merchant of Venice" Crew Immersive Rehearsal Chen Liyi
7 15:15-15:40 Dramatists read with you
Excerpts from Ma Liang's autobiographical collection "Undercover on Earth" are selected from Ma Liang
8 16:10-16:55 "Push the window to see the mountains and seas" Twin Cities Connection Bard Session Xiaohe, Ma Weijia
9 17:00-18:00 Musical theater actors take you to move Zhang Qindan
10 18:15-18:55 Drama people read with you
Dostoevsky by The Brothers Karamazov + Online Interactive Zhai Song
11 19:00-20:50 Tour Stop Zero : The Winter's Tale , The Royal Ballet
12 21:00-22:00 Experimental Frenzy Theater "Hamlet on the Street" Synchronic Walking Theater Bai Shangwu
*All program content, artists and other information are subject to live broadcasting
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