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What's going on this week?
The stage play "Anna Karenina", the musical "Human Disqualification", the dance drama "Wing Chun" ......
——Guangzhou——
The Chinese version of the musical "Lion Boy".
When: January 11-14
Venue: Opera Hall, Guangzhou Grand Theatre
Ordinary left-behind teenager Ajuan, frail and sick since childhood, bullied all day long, one day he met a girl with the same name as him, the girl's enthusiasm for lion dance, for Ajuan opened the door to dreams. Ajuan and two friends formed a lion team, worshiped under the door of the hidden lion dance master Xian Yuqiang, and the four masters and apprentices were indomitable, receiving arduous special training day and night, and marching towards the goal of the "National Lion Dance Competition". But when the day of the lion dance competition is approaching, Ajuan's family has encountered misfortune... Will he give up the dream he has been chasing, and live in the camp from now on, or will he jump up with the lion head desperately, stand side by side with his comrades, stand proudly on the high stake, and return home?
Happy twist classic hilarious drama "Earl of Oolong Mountain"
Time: January 12-January 13
Venue: Guangdong Friendship Theatre
Xie Crab, a young man with no job, no house, and no car, suddenly gets a huge inheritance, and is accidentally mistaken for a bank robber and is wanted by the police. The one in the know is either dead or his opponent. How can he redeem himself?
Drama "Love"
When: January 12-January 21
Venue: Theater No. 13, Guangzhou Dramatic Art Center
Chu Zhao divorced a single parent, and took his son Chu Yinghua to work hard for many years, and finally had a housekeeping company of his own, and the business was both big and good. The only thing that bothers her is her son Chu Yinghua, an excellent pediatrician, but he is afraid of intimacy, which is manifested in having a very compatible girlfriend, but he has a fear of marriage. When his son broke up with his girlfriend Xue Beining again, Chuzhao was deeply anxious. She thought that Chu Yinghua's biological father Chen Ni was too irresponsible, and the long-term lack of fatherly love led to an emotional black hole in the child's heart. For the sake of her son, Hatsusho decided to find her ex-husband, a painter who was pretentious and talented, but was dissolute and destitute, and talked to him about a "business". Chen Ni and his current wife Hua Fengxiu opened a homestay in Yangshuo, and they also have a daughter, Chen Kedu, and their lives are barely surviving. The arrival of the first light brought a windfall to this tight family. Chen Ni did not blame himself for his son's current situation, he accepted the suggestion of the "salary father", cooperated with the performance, and arranged for his daughter to work in Guangzhou by the way. In this way, the ex-wife, ex-husband, son, and daughter formed a seemingly harmonious but undercurrent of four...... Until an anonymous text message tore apart the illusion of happiness, as the secret was revealed, not only the unbearable past was peeled off layer by layer, but also the truth covered by the past! For a while, it was difficult to distinguish whether it was love or hate, whether it was grace or resentment, and only a rethinking life was left waiting for them to find an answer to "love".
Original English play "One Man's Shakespeare"
When: January 13
Venue: Guangzhou Grandview Grand Theatre
In the West and even all over the world, Shakespeare is the first choice of many people who love theater. To this day, his work continues to influence the minds of mankind. "One Man's Shakespeare" tells the story of a boy and Shakespeare. At the age of six, Joseph attended a boarding school for boys in England and met the brilliant but alcoholic Clive Brown. Shakespearean education for new students in the form of military training by President T. Revere. Confused, ashamed, and curious, Joseph Jr. gradually enters the world of Shakespeare, the principal of Revere. From incomprehension and resentment towards the principal, to understanding and gratitude, the little boy eventually fell in love with Shakespeare and the passionate world, and made it his life's work. In the whole play, Joseph plays multiple roles alone, supporting a big drama depicting life, from the innocence of children to the vicissitudes of old people, bringing the audience to that period: poetry, plays, love, regret, birth, old age, sickness and death, which have a profound impact on him. 80 minutes of continuous performance, rhythmic recitation-style rhythm, slow and orderly pace, props placement and pushing, as well as kneeling, knocking down, and rushing forward from time to time, this is a performance with great vitality!
Avant-garde drama "The Day of Hatching Eggs"
When: January 13
Venue: Guangzhou Cloud Curtain Theater
The drama is adapted from the works of Maupassant, the king of the French short story, with eggs as elements, magical reality, and absurd avant-garde forms, to explore the meaning of the existence of self and the world, and there is no lack of family and country feelings. The story tells the story of a young couple on the eve of divorce, an unprovoked quarrel broke out again, true and false, right and wrong, they gradually lost control in anger, and finally found themselves in the illusion and started a new life journey. At the same time, some current social phenomena are expressed in absurd forms, which makes people think. Professional actors who have studied at the French Drama Academy, the British Drama Academy and famous art schools in China have different feelings and understandings of drama. How do these young people, who are not on the same channel, merge together, and what different artistic effects can they create on the same stage?
"Argentine Treasure" King of Dancing - Tango Dance Drama "Burning Tango"
When: January 14
Venue: Guangdong Friendship Theatre
What can you do in three minutes? One turns, one look, one footstep, a lonely man and woman finally meet after going around and around, one is tentatively pulling in the advance, the other is trying to resist and welcome in the retreat, and the time available for the contest is only three minutes. How invested you are in these three minutes, you have to be detached in real life. As the famous Argentine poet Jorge Borges wrote in the last poem of his life: "Tango is the three-minute love of the lonely." ”
——Shenzhen——
Original Musical "Will Enter the Wine"
When: January 11-14
Venue: Shenzhen Esplanade Performing Arts Center - Opera Hall
People living today all know Li Bai's unshakable position in the poetry arena through the ages. It seems that there are traces to follow in terms of endowment, tempering, and chance...... What we see is Li Bai, who has already achieved fame, Li Bai who has left an eternal mark in the long river of history; what we don't know is the starting point of Li Bai's dazzling life, the various difficulties and unwillingness faced by Li Bai in his life, and the bumpy course of Li Bai's eternal life. Let's walk into "Will Enter the Wine" together, and explore the story of "Li Bai is like wine, the more you sharpen it, the more fragrant it is".
Multimedia Art Innovation Stage Play "Butterfly Love: Liang Zhu"
When: January 12
Venue: Huaxia Art Center
Zhu Yingtai, who was dressed as a man, and Liang Shanbo, a poor scholar, met due to a misunderstanding. After three years of being with the same classmates, the two gradually fell in love, and made an agreement at the time of parting - Liang Shanbo proposed to Zhu Yingtai's sister "Nine Sisters". Shanbo went as promised, but was told that Zhu Yingtai had been promised by his father to marry the horse house. The two said goodbye, and Yingtai, who had resumed women's clothing, appeared as the "ninth sister", with endless words and endless meanings, and the two broke up unhappily in a misunderstanding. After that, Liang Shanbo was concerned about his heart, fell ill with lovesickness, and finally vomited blood and died. On the day of Ma Zhu's wedding, Zhu Yingtai received a blood letter full of thoughts and was grief-stricken. In the end, Zhu Yingtai took off his red wedding dress, jumped down in front of Liangshanbo's grave, turned into butterflies, and finally became a family.
The Chinese version of the drama "The Shawshank Redemption".
When: January 12-January 14
Venue: Shenzhen Poly Theatre
The story takes place in the United States in the 40s of the last century. A prison called Shawshank, a prison disaster that fell from heaven for no reason, a road to redemption to regain freedom. Those who are imprisoned are not necessarily the real evildoers, but the prison guards may also be the devil. In this space of independence and opposition between the two sides, the competition for rights and interests, the yearning for freedom and hope are all staged in all corners of the prison...... After 20 years of painstaking management, can good and evil compete to produce results, and can faith in life be redeemed?
Dance Drama Wing Chun
When: January 12-January 14
Venue: Grand Theatre, Shenzhen Grand Theatre
"Wing Chun" is a heroic story that pays tribute to ordinary people. With a love for the film industry, Daharu, a retired gaffer, became the administrator of the Film Archive. A film archive that has been dusty for many years has plunged him into unforgettable memories of filming the movie "Wing Chun". That was the starting point of Da Chun's film career...... In the play, "Master Yip" went to another country and stepped into the martial arts street lined with heroes with the "Wing Chun Tong" plaque, just to open a door to Wing Chun; Wing Chun, Tai Chi, Bagua, Baji, Praying Mantis...... Wonderful martial arts moves, the pinnacle of master confrontation, the happy rivers and lakes of passionate passion, the filmmakers carve the figure of the hero with light and shadow, it turns out that the set of this side of "dreaming" is the place where the dream begins, and everyone who chases the light is rushing to their own martial arts.
Happy Twist Hilarious Stage Play "More than Bright Moonlight in Front of the Window"
When: January 12-January 14
Venue: Shenzhen Happy Twist Hongshan Theater
Congressman Willy was having a private meeting with his lover Jenny when a corpse appeared in the window. Willie didn't dare to call the police and told his private secretary George to deal with it, but he didn't think that there was a bigger conspiracy behind the corpse, and when you told a lie, you had to use a thousand lies to get around. Immediately after that, Mrs. Wiley, Jenny's husband, and George's fiancée took turns to appear. Seeing that the lie is about to be revealed, how can Willy, who is on the verge of collapse, hide from the world and clean up this farce?
Happy twist suspense comedy "Will Classmates"
Time: January 13-14
Venue: Vientiane World Theatre
At a remote spa inn, Anthony organizes a class reunion. 5 old friends who haven't seen each other for many years reunite, but everyone has a ghost in their hearts, and under the mediation of the waiter Megan, a series of ridiculous things have happened. The power of the hotel suddenly went out, and everyone unexpectedly found that the housekeeper who had disappeared for a long time had died in the room...... For a while, everyone with their own plans was even more panicked. The murderer is among them! Looking at everything at the scene of the crime, the students look at each other, all the lies and secrets make the case confusing, what is the truth? A real joyful "script killing" reasoning is about to begin......
Chinese original musical "Human Disqualification"
Time: January 13-14
Venue: Guangming Culture and Arts Center Performing Arts Center Grand Theater
With more than 10 million copies distributed in Asia, a Douban score of 9+, and many celebrities such as Li Xian strongly recommending it, it is known as "the inner confession of contemporary youth". Following the musical "White Night Walking", Dye Space has released another sincere work, and the most famous semi-autobiographical novel "Human Disqualification" by the representative writer Tai Koji of the rogue school has been put on the musical stage for the first time. The script of "Human Disqualification" cleverly constructs the parallel time and space between the original author Tai Koji and the protagonist of the novel, Ye Zang, and collides with soul sparks in the two life journeys of reality and virtuality. The play is committed to exploring the poverty of the inner world of contemporary people, and at the same time allowing contemporary youth in the steel jungle to find an outlet for self-reconciliation and a good way to get along with the world.
——Foshan——
Stage play "Anna Karenina"
When: January 14
Venue: Foshan Qionghua Grand Theater
On the premise of respecting the original work, the drama "Anna Karenina" has been condensed into a capacity of 2 hours. From Vronsky's point of view, the tragic story of Anna's pursuit of love and freedom of marriage is told in flashback. It opens with Vronsky leaving home on a train to fight after Anna's suicide, and he opens up his memories after meeting the conductor. The transformation of each scene of the drama is separated by lighting combined with fog or curtain, which is ingenious and natural. Classic scenes from the original novel are reproduced: Anna's first encounter, the Moscow ball, the reunion at the train station, Anna's confession, the Jockey Club, Anna's pregnancy, Kalenin's forgiveness, Vronsky's suicide, Seryosha's birthday, Frenskaya's dissatisfaction, the final quarrel, suicide by lying on the rails. Throughout the play, the contradictions and conflicts are concentrated and the rhythm is relaxed.
Written by: Nandu reporter Zhou Peiwen and Xi student Zhu Xiaoyu