China News Service, Huaian, May 31 (Xu Shanshan Yingni) "Students, don't forget, our slogan: life is education, society is school, work hard, dance hard, learn while teaching, don't laugh When we are young, we want to transform China, to transform!" Along with the tender and clear singing, the children's drama "Xin'an Tour Group" premiered in Huai'an, Jiangsu on the evening of May 30.
Xin'an Tour Group is a glorious revolutionary group born in the war of resistance against Japan.
In October 1935, 14 students from Xin'an Primary School, under the leadership of the principal Wang Dazhi, formed a "Xin'an Tour Group", starting from Huai'an, using literature and art as a weapon, and long-distance research for 17 years. , to publicize the party's propositions, and to devote themselves to the construction of new China, writing a magnificent chapter of children's patriotic progress.
The play is a realistic children's play jointly created by the China Children's Art Theatre and the Propaganda Department of the Huai'an Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China. With the current Xin'an Primary School as the background, it tells the story of the children's rehearsal in the campus drama club under the leadership of the counselor and teacher. The drama is called "Xin'an Tour Group".
From the perspective of retrospective history, contemporary teachers lead the children to explore the story of the Xin'an tour group and experience the growth process of the children in those years.
The time span in the play is from 1935 to 1945, with the social activities of the Xin'an tour group as the main line, through the way of play within the play, under the narrative structure of "traveling through time and space", let the modern and the past cross multiple times and spaces. , through rich dance styles, child-like imagination and stage means, presents a spiritual history of children who grew up in the beacon fire era.
In addition to professional actors, 25 Huaian Xin'an Primary School students also participated in the performance.
Photo by Tan Xin
In addition to professional actors, 25 Huaian Xin'an Primary School students also participated in the performance.
Under their sincere interpretation, the audience deeply felt the strong patriotism and profound national righteousness of the members of the Xin'an Tour Group. Whether it is on-screen or off-screen, the younger generation uses their own actions to continue the red blood and inherit the red blood. Gene.
"Xin'an, Xin'an, the youth of New China! Not afraid of hardship, not afraid of difficulty, not afraid of the ferocity of the enemy! We grew up in the War of Resistance, and everything is for the War of Resistance!" Accompanied by all the actors singing "The March of the New Brigade", the performance came to an end, There was thunderous applause and resounding for a long time.
Zhang Aijun, member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and Minister of the Propaganda Department, said that Jiangsu Province should take the premiere of the play as a new starting point, continuously improve the quality, actively carry out tour performances, and combine with the publicity and education activities of the mass theme of "Rejuvenation of a Powerful Country", and widely enter the campus, Go to the grassroots level and among the children, guide young people to inspire and strive to become "little heroes" of national rejuvenation, and let the revolutionary flame of "listening to the party's words and walking with the party" be passed on from generation to generation.
After the premiere, the play will also tour in Jiangsu Province, and re-take the road of Xin'an tour group to tour the country.
Photo by Tan Xin
The producer and chief screenwriter of the play, Feng Li, director of the China Children's Art Theatre, said that through a tailor-made children's play, a school's theatrical tradition and drama expertise will be formed - this method will also become a Chinese children's art practice. A new model of social responsibility.
It is reported that the children's drama "Xin'an Tour Group" has been included in the "New Era Realistic Theme Creation Project" repertoire of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and has been included in the 2022 Jiangsu Major Theme Literary and Art Creation Key Project and the Jiangsu Art Fund Council's key support project.
At the same time, as the first work of the China Children's Art Theater to explore the "Seeds of the New Era", "Xin'an Tour Group" has cooperated with the Central Government for the first time in its creation.
After the premiere, the play will also tour in Jiangsu Province, and re-take the road of Xin'an tour group to tour the country.
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