China News Service, Beijing, August 19th (Xu Jing) The 6th Lao She Theatre Festival in Beijing 2022 will be held from September 14th to mid-December, with more than 50 Chinese and foreign quality plays and more than 50 plays. Cultural activities will be launched in various theaters, new performance spaces, tourist attractions, guild halls, neighborhoods and communities centered on Beijing's central axis, allowing dramas to flow in every corner of the city.

Attracting more than 100,000 spectators into the theater in five years

　　The Lao She Theatre Festival was founded in 2017 and is co-hosted by Beiyan Company and Beijing Tianqiao Art Center.

Since its establishment, the festival has always taken "calling for the spirit of drama literature" as its mission, paying attention to people's emotions and telling Beijing stories well.

In the past five years, it has performed hundreds of repertoires, more than 150 wonderful performances, held more than 60 forums and activities, attracted more than 100,000 audiences into the theater, and spread the news to more than 5 million people.

　　Mr. Lao She's daughter Shu Ji wrote in a message to the Organizing Committee of the Festival: "This Lao She Theatre Festival still attaches great importance to the literary spirit of drama, adheres to this purpose, and strives to show the diversity of drama. See Lao She's drama. Each session of the festival has new content, which has expanded in depth and breadth; more domestic theater troupes have joined in; more ordinary audiences in Beijing have the opportunity to participate in theater activities; The combination of improving the level and popularizing the drama culture can add luster to Beijing's cultural undertakings."

The 6th Lao She Theatre Festival opened in Beijing on the 18th. The picture shows performance artist Chen Peisi inviting the audience through a video.

Photo by Yi Haifei of China News Agency

　　Chen Peisi, a well-known performing artist who was performing at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, invited the audience through a video: "It's fortunate that "Frightening Dream" can participate in the Lao She Drama Festival. The premiere of a great show will be at the Lao She Drama Festival. See you in the theater!"

With the central axis as the core layout, "the whole city has drama"

　　The reporter learned that this year's Lao She Drama Festival has been included in the key project of Beijing's "Big Opera to Watch Beijing".

As one of the important activities in the performing arts section of the 10th Beijing Huimin Cultural Consumption Season, the festival will focus on Beijing's central axis as the core layout of "there are plays in the city", and arrange plays and activities in Gulou West Theater, Poly Theater, Tianqiao Theaters and spaces such as the Art Center, Jixiang Grand Theater, Longfu Cultural Center, and October Literature College are located near the central axis, and explore and express the connotation and value of the central axis, and bring together fresh stories in the new era.

　　This year's Lao She Theatre Festival takes "blooming" as the theme: after six years of accumulation, the Lao She Theatre Festival has ushered in the historical opportunity of "seeing Beijing with great dramas" and blooms magnificently; Theaters, small theaters and new performing arts spaces, national, provincial and municipal academies, and private theater organizations gather in the capital to bloom colorfully; through the commission of works, joint venture capital, and joint operation, the transformation of achievements has been promoted, and the in-depth bloom; Build a platform for public participation, promote theater into communities, parks, and business circles, so that theater art can infiltrate every corner of the city and bloom throughout the city.

Blockbuster repertoire will appear at the festival

　　"Wonderful Man in the World", "The Red Sorghum Family", "A Dream", "Anna Karenina", "The Taoist Teacher of the Virtual Image"... At the meeting, the 6th Lao She Drama Festival's repertoire attracted audiences as soon as it was released. The audience praised.

　　According to reports, the repertoire of this year's drama festival is divided into five units: Literary Works, Liyuan Hundred Flowers, International Vision, Houlang Xinsheng and Campus Ripple.

The opening play is based on the original play by Mr. Feng Jicai, the winner of the Lu Xun Literature Prize. The drama "Frightening Dreams", the original work by Keigo Higashino and directed by Zhao Miao, "The Daoist of the Virtual Image", the classic drama "Beijing People" by Beijing Renyi, and the new drama adaptation of Mr. Lao She's original work in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the name of the drama. My Life" and other dramas followed.

　　The Chinese version of the musical "Anna Karenina", adapted from the original work of the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, will be presented to the audience as the closing drama of this Lao She Theatre Festival.

Theatrical cultural activities promote the construction of aesthetic education

　　This year's Lao She Drama Festival has arranged more than 50 drama and cultural activities, which will be fully carried out in various theaters, new performance spaces, guild halls and communities; three theme forums will also be held. The relationship between literary works and stage presentation.

　　Among them, the main creative sharing session will invite writers, screenwriters, industry experts, etc. to create and share according to the current performance, so as to attract more audiences to the theater and feel the charm of the theater in a way that the public likes to hear; the repertoire guide tour is mainly carried out around the high-definition screening of the repertoire. It will cooperate with the International Theatre Critics Association to interpret the background and highlights of the screening for the audience before the screening.

In addition, the main creators of the crew will also go deep into guild halls, communities, and alleys to popularize drama knowledge for the public, promote drama culture, and promote the construction of national aesthetic education.

　　The 6th Lao She Theatre Festival is guided by the Chinese Dramatists Association, Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, Beijing Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and Beijing State-owned Assets Management Co., Ltd. It is co-sponsored by City Performance Co., Ltd. and Beijing Tianqiao Art Center Management Co., Ltd.

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