China News Service, Beijing, September 6 (Reporter Gao Kai) The press conference of the 8th Wuzhen Theatre Festival was held in Beijing on the 6th. The press conference announced that the two-year-old town drama feast will be held on October 15, 2021. Returning again on October 24th, the theme of this year's Wuzhen Theatre Festival is "Mao"-rich rather than complicated, wild and clumped, Mao Shi means talent, and luxuriant year means prosperous year.

　　According to reports, the 8th Wuzhen Drama Festival will be presented in four units: specially invited plays, youth competitions, ancient town carnival, and small town dialogue.

The 8th Wuzhen Drama Festival in 2021 will start the organizer's picture

　　At the press conference, the promoters of Wuzhen Theatre Festival Chen Xianghong, Huang Lei, Lai Shengchuan, and Meng Jinghui jointly announced the list of highly anticipated specially invited plays. 66 performances from 24 plays across the country will be staged in 12 theaters in Wuzhen.

Meng Jinghui, the artistic director of this year's Wuzhen Theater Festival, will focus his attention on Chinese theater, hoping to show the overall appearance of Chinese theater's tolerance and diversity in all aspects.

　　This year’s Wuzhen Drama Festival’s specially invited repertoire is divided into seven sections, and many drama masters are invited to perform on the same stage with mesozoic and new generation dramatists. It includes many reinterpretations of Chinese and foreign classics, new classical renditions, and many new original scripts, with unassuming personality. .

　　Lai Shengchuan, a well-known Chinese dramatist, initiator and permanent chairman of the Wuzhen Theatre Festival, came to Wuzhen Theatre Festival with "It Was Once" after coming to Wuzhen in 2019.

After ten years of gestation, the play was performed by actor Hao Lei, singer Zhang Jie, and all the actors of the Shanghai Theatre Company. Inclusive life experience.

　　"Reflection", directed by China's cutting-edge director Ding Yiteng, and Liu Xiaoye, Zhao Xiaosu, Wu Bi, and Liu Tianqi, will return to the Water Theater at this year's Wuzhen Theater Festival.

The play is adapted from Wilde's novel "Portrait of Dorian Gray", which expresses the confrontation between good and evil in human nature in a very formal way.

The unique environmental atmosphere of the Water Theater is just rightly integrated with the themes of the drama, bringing an immersive and wonderful performance to the audience.

　　"The Story of the Chicken Farm", jointly created and performed by all the dramatists of "Drama New Life", has received widespread praise as the opening drama of "Drama New Life".

This time, Liu Xiaoye, Zhao Xiaosu, Liu Xiaoyi, Wu Bi, Ding Yiteng, and Liu Tianqi will once again stage "The Story of the Chicken Farm", telling the story of Xiaolan the little chicken bravely moving forward and not afraid of hardships to see the sea.

The play is adapted from "Carmela's Story", which expresses the persistence and pursuit of dreams.

　　Adapted by Meng Jinghui, the famous French writer Stendhal's classic masterpiece "Red and Black", starring Mei Ting and Zhang Yicheng, will premiere at this Wuzhen Drama Festival.

The extraordinary handsome and intelligent French young man, Julian, was born humble but ambitious. With the entanglement of two women, his unruly soul was tortured by clumsy, crazy and hypocritical love.

"Red and Black" uses the humorous, mocking, and romantic narrative method of "Meng's pleasure", and will show Lian's self-esteem and inferiority, ambition and temptation, ascent and fall, and interpret the intertwined and intertwined steps in love and human nature. Vivid red and black.

　　"Sunrise" is a masterpiece by Cao Yu, the most outstanding drama master in the history of modern Chinese literature. The drama version has been premiered in 1937 to today. After rehearsing in multiple versions, it has become an eternal classic on the drama stage.

The dance drama "Sunrise" that came to Wuzhen Theater Festival this time is the masterpiece of the famous Chinese modern dancer Venus returning to the stage. She is the director of the stage for the first time, and she plays two roles in the play.

The play deliberately weakens the primary and secondary relationship between the characters, and presents the major and secondary characters in the whole work in the form of group portraits. Through the rich physical expression of modern dance, the emotions of the characters are externalized and extended.

Taking the stage as a mirror, "Sunrise" will express the various aspects of social life in body language and aesthetics, reinterpreting this classic work by Cao Yu.

　　The cross-border dance and campus observation sections are equally splendid, constantly expanding the horizons and boundaries of the Wuzhen Drama Festival, showing the rich connotation and multiple dimensions of Chinese drama.

The Wuzhen Drama Festival, which has entered a harvest year, will welcome the lush return of the winners of the previous youth competitions in the eighth year. They will start again with a growth attitude. On the stage of the Wuzhen Drama Festival, they will continue to evolve without changing their original aspirations.

　　Liu Xiaoye, Zhao Xiaosu, Wu Bi, Ding Yiteng, Liu Xiaoyi, and Liu Tianqi from iQIYI's "New Life in Drama" program from Wuzhen Theater Festival will return to Wuzhen together to perform word-of-mouth plays.

In addition, two young female dramatists-Yang Zhefen, winner of the 2017 Youth Competition "Small Town Award" and He Qi, who was shortlisted for the Youth Competition in 2018, will also bring their new stage works.

　　In addition, a total of 11 female dramatists appeared in the specially invited drama unit, nearly half of the total number of specially invited plays. Female dramas continued to speak out, demonstrating the luxuriant and colorful reality of drama.

　　The newly opened Theater Around the Lake will screen many classic works from six major theater festivals in the world, including the Edinburgh Art Festival, the Berlin Theater Festival, and the Avignon Theater Festival.

　　With the theme of "Trees, Breads, and Past", this year's youth competition has received more than 500 entries, a record high.

After fierce competition, a total of 18 works finally came to the fore.

After the cultivation and accumulation of seven youth competitions, Wuzhen has become an excellent soil for the incubation and growth of the new generation of Chinese drama. The new drama has also grown into the inexhaustible original vitality of the Wuzhen Drama Festival.

　　It is reported that all the specially invited repertoires will open at 10:00 on September 16, 2021.

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