Large-scale scene song and dance "Song of Strugglers" to praise the "strugglers" of the era

　　China News Service, Beijing, November 9th (Reporter Ying Ni) From November 27th to 29th, the large-scale epic "Song of Strugglers" created by the Art Troupe of the ACFTU will be staged at the Poly Theater. The repertoire will be in the form of situational song and dance. Praise to the model workers who are struggling to build the front line and thousands of workers.

　　At a press conference on the 9th, Sun Wenbin, secretary of the Party Committee and head of the ACFTU’s Cultural and Industrial Corps, said that the working class was the leading class in the long and arduous revolutionary struggles in the past. Now in the process of creating a better life in the new era, the working class is also struggling. The main force of the artist, the "struggler" deserves to be the protagonist of this artwork.

Image courtesy of ACFTU

　　According to Chen Sisi, the executive deputy director and artistic director of the Arts and Crafts Troupe of the ACFTU, the artistic director and chief planner of the play, Chen Sisi, "Song of the Struggler" is divided into the prologue "Labor Imagination Song" and three acts "Rising Up" and "Struggling". Chapter", "Endeavour Chapter", and the epilogue "Struggle March", show the demeanor of workers in different periods, vigorously promote the spirit of model workers, the spirit of labor, and the spirit of craftsman, tell the stories of China, model workers and craftsmen, stories of Chinese workers and Chinese labor unions, and sing praises Work is the most glorious, work is the most noble, work is the greatest, and work is the most beautiful.

　　The prologue "Working Imagination" presents vivid images of laborers one by one with a sense of sculpture and ritual in the sound of labor chants, opening a magnificent chapter of hard work, tenacious struggle, and continuous striving for generations of laborers.

In the multimedia video, the audience will see the glorious group of model workers after the founding of New China, which is well-known and admired.

The three acts of "Fengqi Pian", "Struggle Pian" and "Fenjin Pian" span more than half a century from the founding of New China, the reform and opening up to the new era of Endeavour, and vividly show the demeanor of advanced laborers of different eras in a time-space corridor. Praises the contribution of the Chinese working class in the period of socialist construction.

Photo courtesy of the ACFTU at the press conference

　　Among them, the three sets of singing and dancing performances in "The Red Age", "Towards Happiness" and "Our New Era" cover "We Workers Have Power", "I Give Petroleum to the Motherland", "We Are Walking on the Road", "Jin Shuo" "With Silver Shuttle", "Meet with Young Friends" and other classic songs eulogizing laborers in different periods.

In the scene performance "Model Labor", the artists will affectionately interpret the moving deeds of Wang Jinxi, Deng Jiaxian, Meng Tai and Wang Chonglun, showing the spirit of selfless dedication and serving the motherland of the model workers.

The scene performance "The Surging Spring Tide" used humorous language to describe the passion of entrepreneurs who seized opportunities and worked hard to promote socialist modernization under the wave of reform and opening up.

With the development of the times, many new occupations such as courier and driving agent have emerged in the labor force. "Song of the Struggler" also aimed at them, especially the scene in the third act "Endeavour" Songs and dances, skits, dances, songs and other forms strive to shape laborers in the new era and praise model workers and craftsmen.

At the end of the work, a song "March of Struggle" expresses the heroic feelings of the laborers for forging ahead into the new era and creating new glory.

　　It is reported that after the premiere, "Song of Strugglers" will start touring in multiple cities across the country.

Chen Sisi introduced that in "Song of the Struggler", there are a large number of real scenes from the frontline of production. By then, the backbone of the front lines from all over the country can become participants on the stage, allowing them to perform on the same stage with professional actors, and let "Song of the Songs" became a stage show jointly completed by artists and front-line workers.

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