China News Service, Beijing, June 28 (Reporter Gao Kai) The 9th Wuzhen Drama Festival officially announced on the 28th. This drama feast will be held from November 25 to December 4, 2022. ".
The Wuzhen Theatre Festival has four major units: specially invited plays, youth competitions, ancient town carnivals, and small town dialogues.
On the same day, the Organizing Committee of Wuzhen Theatre Festival released the proposition and rules of this year's Wuzhen Theatre Festival youth competition, and officially opened the registration channel for the youth competition and the ancient town carnival.
For the past eight years, the Bengwan Theater has been like a mussel bred with pearls, and the lights of this stage have gathered for young dramatists.
As the core unit of the Wuzhen Theatre Festival, the Youth Competition, with its vast influence and professional selection mechanism, carries the mission of exploring the future of Chinese theatre.
Groups of young people who have a passion for drama have become "Bengwan Youth". With their unremitting efforts and excellent creativity, they have shown the vitality of Chinese original dramas to the audience.
The 2022 9th Wuzhen Drama Festival Youth Competition will use "wine bottle, blank, remote control" as the three elements of the competition. Participants can use simple tables and chairs provided by the organizing committee, but they are not allowed to make or bring other props by themselves ; Competitors must creatively use these three elements in the creation of stage drama productions with a performance of no more than 30 minutes.
From now until September 10, 2022, participants can log in to the official website of Wuzhen Theatre Festival (www.wuzhenfestival.com) to register. The preliminary judges of Wuzhen Theatre Festival will conduct a preliminary selection based on the results of online registration, and will be held on October 10, 2022. The list of the 18 works that were successfully shortlisted was announced on the 19th.
After that, all shortlisted works will participate in two to three public performances during the Wuzhen Theatre Festival for the preliminary competition. After the preliminary competition, 6-8 plays will enter the finals, and the final judges will judge the winning works.
It is reported that this year's Wuzhen Theatre Festival still has one Best Drama Award (with a bonus of RMB 200,000), one Best Individual Performance Award (with a bonus of RMB 10,000) and several Special Attention Awards.
So far, more than 8,000 young people have signed up for the youth competition section of the Wuzhen Theatre Festival, and dozens of brilliant works have come to the fore. At the 8th Wuzhen Theatre Festival last year, the previous youth competition contestants served as the leading actors and directors of specially invited plays. , returning with the work.
The ancient town carnival unit takes the unique natural space of Jiangnan ancient town in Wuzhen Xizha as the stage to explore the infinite possibilities of drama.
Adhering to the concept of diversity, openness, exchange and integration, hundreds of ancient town carnival performance groups each year break the relationship with the audience and perform thousands of performances in scenes such as wooden houses, stone bridges, alleys, and swaying boats in Wuzhen. .
The 8th Wuzhen Theatre Festival has more than 2,000 ancient town carnivals in the streets and alleys, terraces and rivers. With the unique humanistic charm of Wuzhen, the contemporary avant-garde performing arts and diverse folk culture are integrated in the same space, filling every place outside the Wuzhen Theatre. Corners include improv comedy, opera, installation art, multimedia, traditional folk yangko, puppet drama, virtual performance, juggling magic, physical drama, experimental poetry, music and dance skits, etc.
This year's Wuzhen Theatre Festival will explore more and more exciting ancient town carnival performance possibilities, bringing the audience an unimaginable theatrical carnival feast.
The "Carnival in Ancient Town" unit welcomes all artistic forms with aesthetic shock and appeal, such as traditional performance skills, contemporary avant-garde drama, multimedia technology video, space installation art, music, dance, and cross-border creativity. Drama groups across the country, Artists, creators and performing arts enthusiasts can log in to the official website of the Wuzhen Theatre Festival (www.wuzhenfestival.com) to register for participation from now until September 30, 2022.
The Organizing Committee of Wuzhen Theatre Festival will provide opportunities for creation, performance, life and cooperation.
According to reports, in addition to the above-mentioned registration channels, the Wuzhen Theatre Festival also welcomes the public to recommend their favorite performances to the organizing committee. If you find outstanding traditional skills or unique modern performances around you, you can post them on Sina Weibo, Libili, Douyin and other platforms took #wuzhentheatrical festival# topic @wuzhentheatrical festival to release a short video to inform the official of the Wuzhen Theatre Festival.
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