Beijing Youth Opera Festival returns in September, the opening play is "A Beautiful Day 2020"
Beijing News (Reporter Liu Zhen) On the afternoon of September 9, the press conference of the 13th Beijing International Youth Theatre Festival was held in Beijing Beehive Theatre. Artistic director Meng Jinghui announced that the 2020 13th Beijing International Youth Theatre Festival will be held at 9 Held in Beijing from November 25th to November 25th.
The opening play was directed by Li Jianjun of the New Youth Theatre Company, focusing on the 20-year personal history from 2000 to 2020, "A Beautiful Day 2020".
This year's Beijing International Youth Theatre Festival has been upgraded again, with both online and offline operations.
In terms of content, the drama festival is composed of seven major units: "drama is on site", "drama online", "drama is reading", "drama is talking", "drama is listening", "drama is hi" and "drama is on record".
In the form of online and offline performances, the audience can not only sit in the theater and experience the feeling of breathing and resonate with the actors, but also feel the dramatic energy and enthusiasm that spans time and space online.
Damai & Youku, as the chief partner of this year's Youth Opera Festival, will upload the theater performance videos to Youku for free for audiences to enjoy. In addition, online performances will be performed live on the official account of "Beijing International Youth Theater Festival" at station B.
At the press conference, Director Shao Zehui first introduced the repertoire of this year's "Theatrical Presence" unit.
This unit includes 13 works by young directors, including 11 works performed in Beijing by Li Jianjun, Yang Ting, Gu Lei, Jia Xiaojie, Qin Feng, Chen Xindian, Li Zhida, Cheng Wenming, Cao Min, Xiao Jing, and Zu Jiyan , There is also a work performed by director Li Yao in Xi'an and a work performed by Qin Jingyue in Xiamen.
As a witness and participant of the Qingxi Festival along the way, Shao Zehui introduced this unit with emotion: "The 2020 Qingxi Festival has given me the greatest touch and pride. The number of entries this year has set a new high since the festival was held. There are as many as 157. It shows that young creators are still full of hope and vision for drama, art, and life, and still have enough courage and love for the future. This is also a huge platform that constantly urges us to continue to do a good job at the Qingxi Festival power."
This year’s Youth Opera Festival has set up a special “Drama Online” unit to showcase the 12 most exploratory online drama works at home and abroad. These works are all new creations by drama workers under Internet conditions since March 2020. Invited Including Li Jianjun's "Electrified Spark", Liao Shuyi, Huang Ruiming's "That Man", Yu Erge's "MOLI", Li Qianru, Tang Ke's "Sound Is Still Nothing" and many other outstanding domestic creators. The international part is specially invited from Japan The artist Kumagai directed the work "New World" by Qizi, and cooperated with the Goethe Institute of the German Cultural Center in Beijing to select three distinctive German online works, including those that were staged at the Berlin Theatre Festival in China in 2019 and presented to China The audience was impressed by the new generation of German director Christopher Lupin of the drama "Drums in the Middle of the Night", which premiered at the Zurich Theater in May this year.
The unit will be broadcast live on station B for four consecutive weeks starting in mid-October. At that time, dramatists and fans from home and abroad will have online communication.
In the other main units, the Youth Drama Festival featured live music performance "Drama Listening". Four musical works by Yan Jun, Shao Yanpeng, New Workers’ Orchestra, Pi Village Literature Group, and AEM Orchestra were also invited. The form of online live broadcast breaks the limitations of performance venues, and musicians have a broader creative space to explore the myriad possibilities of sound; the "Drama Reading" unit will cooperate with "New Script" magazine to launch 6 original and innovative script readings. In addition to acting as the director of the "Outsiders" play, Director Yang Ting will also serve as the director of the tribute to the master's script reading, leading the actors to read Camus's "Caligula", "Misunderstanding", "Martial Law" and "The Righteous". ; "Drama is Talking" unit will invite drama creators, scholars and experts from home and abroad to participate, and hold a number of drama exchanges and seminars; "Drama is Hi" unit is the first closed-door domestically created by Beijing International Youth Theatre Festival 48 The hourly skit contest attempt, the creative staff complete a proposition creation task in a limited space and time and display it in the theater. It is a comprehensive assessment of the comprehensive ability of the dramatist, and it is also a bold attempt by the Qingxi Festival Organizing Committee; "On the case" is aimed at creators from across the country and the world. An 8-minute creative performance video will be taken within the specified time. The performance can take place in any space. The video content can be novel fragments, script monologues, dances, street flashes or Any participant's customized "performance" and "drama on record" creation propositions will be announced at the opening ceremony of the 13th Beijing International Youth Theatre Festival.
Beijing News reporter Liu Zhen