At the beginning of the Year of the Tiger, on the stage of Guangzhou drama, classic re-enactments and original new works will be launched alternately, full of "hard goods".

Just after the Spring Festival, the No. 13 Theater of the Guangzhou Drama Art Center unveiled for the audience two overweight original plays - "The Avenue" and "The King of Nanyue".

　　The Guangzhou Opera House's New Year's drama also chose a drama, "Diary of a Madman" directed by "European theater giant" Christian Lupa, which uses world theatrical vocabulary to interpret the classics of Chinese literature.

　　Guangzhou Daily All Media Reporter Zhang Suqin

　　Theater is a landscape of Guangzhou

　　Famous performances are frequent and concentrated

　　In the 2022 annual performance repertoire just announced by the Guangzhou Drama Art Center (Cantonese for short), from March to December, "hard goods" are full.

Many beloved classics that have not been seen for a long time will be presented again this year, such as "The King of Nanyue", "Resurrection", and "Macbeth"... After the news was released, a "iron fan" with wide-ranging words said, "In the past two years, there has never been such a frequent event. The concentrated performances of famous novels can be enough to be addicted to the drama."

　　It is worth mentioning that Cantonese is "a novel every year". This year, the audience will be meeting with the Chinese drama masterpiece, Mr. Cao Yu's classic "Sunrise".

It is reported that Cantonese will invite famous director Li Bonan to direct the play.

Last year, the adaptation of the famous writer Wang Meng's novel of the same name directed by him was called "The Ceiling of the Drama of the Year".

　　In addition to the classic re-enactments, there are also many new repertoires.

There are already 5 new plays such as "Sony Ericsson" and "The Kramers".

Among them, "Sony Ericsson" was adapted from the novel of the local writer Zhang Xin. The strong alliance between the local academy and the writer is worth looking forward to; the movie "Mrs. Kramer" is very classic. The words will bring the world premiere of the drama "Mr. and Mrs. Kramer".

　　At the beginning of the new year, "Wang Bang" appeared in Cantonese!

The reality-themed masterpiece "The Avenue", the large-scale historical and humanistic classic "The King of Nanyue", and the international contemporary masterpiece Tony Award winner "Reconnaissance" will all be billed.

　　Over the years, Cantonese stationed at the top of Shahe River, as a "pioneering cow" in the field of Guangzhou drama, has lit a lamp for the city.

When the lanterns first came on, people came here to escape from the hustle and bustle of reality, obtain a moment of tranquility, receive nourishment from art, and seek spiritual nobility.

"When every scene of our show is over, when the audience stays and talks, I feel full of happiness. We and the audience are like family," said Wang Xiaodi, chairman of Guanghua and national first-class director.

　　And in this city, in the Guangzhou Grand Theater, in the Friendship Theater, in the Guangdong Art Theater, in the Beilei Theater... In large and small theaters, there are always various plays being staged...

　　More and more people enter the theater, and the theater has become a landscape of the city, where people communicate on a spiritual level.

　　Guangzhou Grand Theater's New Year's Play "Diary of a Madman"

　　Interpret Chinese literary classics with world drama vocabulary

　　Guangzhou Grand Theater's new year drama "Diary of a Madman" will be staged in two performances on February 19th and 20th.

The play is directed by Christian Lupa, and is performed by a number of powerful actors such as Yan Nan and Mei Ting.

As the closing drama of the 5th Lao She Drama Festival and the opening drama of the Anaya Drama Festival, the play has been toured in Shanghai, Suzhou, Changsha, Shaoxing, Nanjing and other places, and has become a cultural event that has aroused heated discussions among domestic audiences and scholars.

　　On May 15, 1918, the fourth volume of "New Youth" published a novel signed "Lu Xun" - "Diary of a Madman".

"Diary of a Madman" is like a cry from Lu Xun.

This classic work with trans-epochal significance in the history of Chinese literature, through the image of the "madman" and the self-reporting description of the "madman", reveals the "cannibalistic" nature of feudal ethics, expresses Mr. Lu Xun's resistance, and expresses his sustenance. his expectations for the future of China.

　　The play "Diary of a Madman" is the second of a "trilogy" directed by "European theater giant" Christian Lupa after "Mr.

Lupa is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 13th "European Theatre Award" and one of the three most important directors of Polish theatre in the 20th century.

　　Lu Pa's "Diary of a Madman" is based on the interpretation of the original work, combined with Mr. Lu Xun's many works to expand and extend.

Using multimedia and reality blending techniques, across dimensions and time and space, it unfolds the secrets of the "madman" experience, and leads the audience into an unprecedented "Lu Xun universe".

　　The historical and humanistic classic "The King of Nanyue"

　　A person's story, a city's history

　　Guangzhou Drama Art Center's 10-year collection of fine plays, the 2007-2010 Golden Lion Award for Outstanding Plays, the 2006-2007 National Outstanding Stage Art Project Nominee, the 100th Anniversary of Chinese Drama and the 5th National Drama Award-winning Works... "The King of Nanyue" will be staged from April 7th to 18th.

　　In 204 BC, Zhao Tuo founded the Nanyue Kingdom, which is "more than ten thousand miles from east to west".

From the 30-year-old thirteen to the 106-year-old mackerel's back, Nanyue King Zhao Tuo wrote a microcosm of the entire history of South Vietnam with his unique life course of more than 70 years.

It shows the history of a city through a person's story, showing the beauty and splendor of the process of history and the complex blend of life under the background of a great era.

　　"The King of Nanyue" is a large-scale historical drama of Guangzhou's local culture, which interprets "the story of a person and the history of a city." Its artistic director and director Wang Xiaodian said that the drama is not a serious historical drama, but focuses on the performance of cultural integration and humanities Caring, "Artists are lucky to be able to let their thoughts and emotions traverse time and space as they wish; to experience and create unlimited lives with limited lives. This may be the elixir that Qin Shi Huang has been searching for but cannot find it! Similarly, the audience Also lucky!"

　　Reality masterpiece "Road"

　　group of people looking up at the starry sky

　　Before the Spring Festival, "The Avenue", as the opening drama of the No. 13 Theater in 2022, sold out three performances across the board.

After the festival, the excitement will continue, and it will be staged from March 18th to 27th.

　　Infiltrating the openness and inclusiveness of Lingnan culture, he rose to the forefront of the coastal areas of Guangdong; from the absurd life of being deceived into two million and separated his wife and children, to the thriving leader of leading Chinese telecommunications companies; Achievements, to leading independent and innovative high-tech companies... What You Daosheng and his "Guoxun" have experienced is the wisdom of the rapid development of China's communication technology for more than 30 years.

　　The brilliance of reason guides the protagonist to survive in desperation, just as in the drama we use the power of contemporary speculation to observe the real life.

This is a story in the "present tense", and out of the theater, the audience will feel that the real life is far richer and grander than what the theater presents.

　　International contemporary masterpiece "Reconnaissance"

　　A "cat and mouse game" with four characters

　　The classic masterpiece of suspense and reasoning drama master Anthony Schaeffer, the Tony Award for Best Screenplay, and the classic masterpiece that has been staged in a thousand shows on Broadway... "Reconnaissance" will be staged from April 26 to May 1.

　　A accomplished suspense novelist, he is best at concocting all kinds of twists and turns and bizarre tricks "routine" readers.

But he didn't expect that one day, he would put everything carefully planned in the book into practice.

The story that was originally thought to end successfully has turned into waves. The four characters of husband, lover, wife, and police detective are entangled in a "cat-and-mouse game", and the most unexpected things seem to begin...