October 17
The 11th Wuzhen Theatre Festival 2024 is about to kick off
Theater fans can feast their eyes on it again
Enjoy a variety of masterpieces
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Youth of this year's Wuzhen Theater Festival
The list of shortlisted works in the competition unit was announced
"The Last Day of Shouyang Mountain" is among them
"The Last Day of Shouyang Mountain" was selected and sent by Shenzhen Futian District Public Culture and Sports Development Center, directed by Li Yuchu, art specialist of Futian District Public Culture and Sports Development Center, directed and starred by Deng Chenchao, co-founder of Shenzhen New Species Experimental Theater, written by Lin Zheng, librarian of Shenzhen Cultural Center, supervised by Wu Xiaohong, director of Futian Cultural and Sports Center's · Drama Theme Museum, and Chen Yujun, founder of New Species Experimental Theater.
This year's Wuzhen Theatre Festival Youth Competition received a total of 560 entries from all over the world, and after the selection of the jury, a total of 18 plays were shortlisted and 3 were selected. Under such fierce competition, the original drama work "The Last Day of Shouyang Mountain" in Futian District is honored to be shortlisted, and will soon bloom brightly in Wuzhen Bengwan Theater, and the strength of the new drama force from Futian will be interpreted.
Source: Wuzhen Theatre Festival
Since 2013, the Wuzhen Theatre Festival has set up a theme every year for the core cultural products created by Chen Xianghong, Huang Lei, Lai Shengchuan and Meng Jinghui, and all repertoire performances revolve around the annual theme.
After more than 10 years of development, the Wuzhen Theater Festival has effectively prospered the domestic theater culture, successfully created an international centralized theater feast, and become one of the important windows for cultural exchanges and dialogues between China and the world.
Since the 10th edition, the Youth Competition has attracted more than 10,000 young people to sign up. Bengwan Theater has nurtured more than 600 outstanding young drama creators, created 161 original drama works, and emerged drama backbones such as Chen Minghao, Wu Bi, Ding Yiteng, as well as Liu Tianqi, Wang Zi, He Qi, Hu Xuanyi, Shan Dandan, Mi Li and other drama talents.
The Last Day of Shouyang Mountain
"The Last Day of Shouyang Mountain" was founded in 2023, the repertoire is adapted from Lu Xun's "New Story Edition" of "Cai Wei", which tells the story of Bo Yi and Shu Qi during the Shang and Zhou dynasties.
△ "The Last Day of Shouyang Mountain" rehearsal photo
All the time
Fukuda regards both drama as such
Nourishes the spirit of the city and
An important carrier to enhance the cultural taste of the city
The Futian District Party Committee and Government attach great importance to the development of theatrical culture and have adopted a series of practical and effective measures such as building high-quality venues. For example, the Futian Cultural and Sports Center · Drama Theme Pavilion with a construction area of about 7,997 square meters was built, and the other four theme cultural centers managed and operated by the Futian Cultural and Sports Center all have theaters of different sizes, providing soil and building greenhouses for the cultivation of Futian drama seeds with high-quality venue resources.
At the same time, relying on high-quality positions, it introduced famous theater culture masters, and signed a memorandum of cooperation with the famous experimental theater director Meng Jinghui to jointly create the "Pioneer Drama Biennale"; In 2018, the famous actor Pu Cunxin was hired as the cultural consultant of Futian District, and the "Futian Children's Drama Development Studio" was established to ignite the wisdom of drama and cultivate local drama talents with the professional strength of famous artists.
In addition, Fukuda has made nurturing the seeds of children's and youth drama a top priority. In 2023, Futian Cultural and Sports Center will be rated as the first batch of "China Children and Youth Drama Art Popularization and Promotion Center"; Introduce large, medium and small children's repertoire in large-scale cultural brand projects such as the "Bloom" Citizen Art Festival (Futian, ·, Shenzhen); Specially for the popularization and promotion of children's and youth drama, the "Futian Children's Drama Week" was created; In 2024, the Futian District Small "Drama" Talent Training Program will be launched; Activities such as "Multi-dimensional Drama Innovation Workshop", "Weekend Drama Gathering", "Children's Drama Performance Summer Camp", and drama theme research have been carried out on a regular basis, so that drama has become a breakthrough for developing children's and young people's aesthetic education thinking and stimulating creativity, and successfully cultivating batches of new drama forces.
No effort was spared in the construction of positions
Celebrities gather, teachers are abundant
Brand projects are colorful
The support program is pragmatic and effective
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The successful shortlisting of Futian's original drama for the Wuzhen Theater Festival is a vivid microcosm of Futian's achievements in cultivating drama culture and taking multiple measures to build a drama highland over the years, and it is bound to continue to stimulate new enthusiasm for the creation and development of Futian theater culture and art.
Never stop, using drama to reflect life and the times. What is expected is that the 11th Guangdong Provincial Drama Art Festival will bloom in Futian in October 2024, which is a wonderful footnote to the vigorous development of the Southern Drama Highland.
In the future, Futian District will continue to fully integrate and utilize all kinds of resources, expand and strengthen the original drama brand projects, continue to develop new ways of activities, and make every effort to do a good job in the popularization and promotion of children's and young people's drama, so as to provide fertile soil and a broad stage for the prosperity and development of drama culture, and show the richness and infinite possibilities of Futian drama to Shenzhen, China and even the world.
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Edit | Dong Yutong
Proofreading | Cai Shiyan, Liao Jingwen, Zhou Xiaoyuan, Huang Ruiyu
Proofreading | Dong Fangjun, Zeng Chuyuan
Executive Producer | Weekly
Source of information | Futian Cultural and Sports Center