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Let the drama storm be more intense

——Speech at the media meeting of the "Yangtze River Monsoon" autumn and winter performance season

Yangtze River People's Art Theater Dean Xia Xiaohua

Dear leaders, media friends, entrepreneurs and artists:

Good afternoon!

Today, we are here to hold a media meeting for the "Yangtze River Monsoon" performance season. First of all, I represent the Yangtze River People's Art, on behalf of all the creative staff and all the cast and crew, and also on behalf of all those who love the Yangtze River People's Art drama. The audience would like to express their warmest welcome and heartfelt thanks to you all!

Churchill once said: "I would rather lose India than lose Shakespeare." A provincial leader said: Drama is the mother of film and television and the king of drama. He also said: People with good taste may not all like to watch dramas, but people who like to watch dramas must be people with good taste. It can be said that everyone who came to our event today, whether you are journalists, entrepreneurs, or artists, you are all outstanding elites, and you will definitely inspire us to produce more "exciting, exciting, and fun" dramas to make Jiangcheng Every day when night falls and the lights come on, people have a good place to relax and warm their lives.

This "Yangtze River Monsoon" autumn and winter performance season has been brewing, planning and preparing for a long time. Now let me briefly introduce to you the relevant situation.

1. What is the Yangtze River monsoon?

It is almost two years since the Yangtze River People’s Art Theater was restructured and renamed from the Provincial Theater. This "Yangtze River" performing arts enterprise, which carries the love and expectations of leaders at all levels including the Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government, the Provincial Party Committee Propaganda Department, and the Provincial Performing Arts Group, as well as all walks of life, strives for progress amidst the market tide while pursuing stability, pursuing excellence while pursuing speed, and breaking through the waves. Moving forward, after last year's drama "Faith" won the national "Five Ones" award and successfully hosted the National Drama Golden Lion Award, this year we concentrated our financial, human and material resources to create a series of small theater dramas and children's dramas, with more performances than last year. Growth of 40% over the same period. In order to better meet the needs of Wuhan audiences whose aesthetic level and income level are constantly increasing, we have launched the "Yangtze River Monsoon" autumn and winter performance season activities to bring elegant art to ordinary people, "popularize" "niche" art, and make "niche" art "popular" People under high pressure in work and life cried and laughed happily in the theater.

The brand concept of "Yangtze River Monsoon" is: In the autumn and winter of 2013, the provincial performing arts group Yangtze River People's Art Center performed the latest work of the "Yangtze River" series, creating a whirlwind of drama in the beautiful river city. Inject a dose of freshness and civilization into the busy night, and add a wind of strength and warmth to the Hubei chapter of the Chinese Dream. As a result, Yangtze River People's Art No. 64, Huazhong Village, Xiaodongmen has become the first choice for Wuhan people to watch dramas and have fun.

The theme of this performance season is "Warmth". Many people today, even if they have many friends and many activities, sometimes still feel lonely and lonely inside. Drama is a group activity. Watch a drama in the same theater, try the atmosphere of everyone in the same aura, and feel that everyone experiences the same emotion together within an hour and a half. This will make the hot summer day more enjoyable. You are no longer restless at night, and you are no longer cold on autumn and winter nights. When you walk out of the theater, you may feel lost, or you may think of some of your past, full of feelings. However, you will no longer feel lonely. At that moment, your heart is warm.

2. What is the main content?

The first season of the Yangtze River Monsoon, that is, the autumn and winter performance season, this year’s most concentrated performances are scheduled from September to November. Five popular and well-received plays will be presented to the audience, with more than 200 consecutive performances. , including three suspense dramas, two absurd comedies, and several mobile stage vehicle variety shows.

Section 1: A trilogy of suspense dramas:

The first part is adapted from the classic play of Agatha Christie in the United States. It is the first suspense genre in Hubei Province. small theater drama. This play was officially staged during the National Golden Lion Award Ceremony in December last year. It has been performed in Wuhan for more than 50 times so far, and the venues are full. Each performance can be described as "a laugh every three minutes, an applause every four minutes, and a scream every five minutes."

The second part, "The Door That Can't Be Opened". The play is an original work of our institute. It has a classic story, everything is close to life, and the lines are classic. Every sentence hits the key points and touches the heart of every audience. How will this drama interpret the bizarre story of two crazy men and a crazy woman in the third space? Worth the wait.

The third part, "I'll Be Back Before Midnight" is written by the famous Canadian playwright Mr. Peter Cowley. It is one of Canada's highest-grossing contemporary classic dramas. Some people say that the degree of civilization of the city can be reflected to a certain extent by the number of audiences entering the drama theater. I think the people of Wuhan, who are actively participating in the construction of a national central city, invite three or five of their best friends to the Yangtze River People's Art Theater after dinner, drink a cup of coffee, read a newspaper, eat a box of popcorn, and enjoy the After a play, I will definitely go home before midnight.

Second section: Two original hilarious absurd dramas:

The first one, "Death is Coming: Huangquan Travel Agency", tells the story of a liar who pretends to be Zhang Tianshi to summon souls to steal money. In the hell, the "Yellow Spring Travel Agency" is responsible for the black and white of the "one-day tour to hell". It turns out that there are inextricably linked relationships between the three people, and a supernatural and hilarious scene between humans and ghosts was staged between the three people. Adventure.

The second part, "The Itch of Fishy Life", tells the story of a 37-year-old Japanese restaurant owner who is tired of the ordinary and depressing life and hopes to experience a different life, and plans to implement " Extramarital affairs” dating. His dating partners are: a stripper actress in her early twenties who has no sense of right and wrong; and the wife of his best friend who is depressed. They all want something to happen between them, what exactly happened between them? The audience who watched it were all in awe.

In addition to these two original absurd comedy dramas, two new hilarious dramas will be staged in September. They are currently being rehearsed intensively. The specific titles of the dramas are kept confidential for the time being, so stay tuned.

The third section: "Yangtze River Performing Arts" mobile stage vehicle variety show "enters communities, scenic spots, schools, enterprises, military camps, and rural areas."

3. How to arrange the time and location?

The first section: "The Unopenable Door" has entered the final stage of elaboration. It will premiere on August 6 and will be performed in Beijing on August 23; from September 1 to November On the 17th, about 70 performances of three suspense dramas will be performed here at 7:30 every night except Mondays, that is, in the Yangtze River People's Art D8 space.

Second Section: Starting this week, two absurd comedy plays will be performed for about 30 times at the Pioneer Theater on the first floor of the Yangtze River People's Art Theater at 7:30 pm every Friday and Saturday.

The third section: "Yangtze River Performing Arts" mobile stage vehicle has performed more than 40 times. Starting from this week, it will continue to perform until the end of the year, mainly featuring sketches, cross talk, allegro, song and dance and other variety shows. It is planned to perform 130 performances throughout the year.

IV. Several characteristics that must be introduced:

1. In the history of Hubei, the same theater troupe performed the largest number of small theater dramas in the same theater, with the largest number of performances. The longest ever performance season. Starting from the first performance on August 6th to the last performance on November 17th, it lasted more than three months and performed about 100 small theater plays, which will create a strong and lasting drama whirlwind for the people of Jiangcheng.

2. All five dramas are independently created and branded by Hubei people. Among the creative and starring team, there is Mr. Li Daoguo, the vice president of our provincial performing arts group and a famous composer, Ms. Guo Caixue, a young and beautiful director who graduated from the Chinese Theater Directing Department and is a graduate of the Provincial Art Research Institute, and Yang Yue, a hot and beautiful screenwriter from the Provincial Art Research Institute. Ladies, there are the winner of the National Drama Golden Lion Award, the sexy beauty Liu Yu, the handsome guy Pang Lei, the handsome guy Luo Xi who serves as the producer of two shows at the same time, and the local stars Xiao Qiaoting and The Paper who have an audience of tens of thousands of fans. , Kang Liang, Yan Haidong, Qiburi Haas, etc., all the actors in "Yangtze River" are 100% handsome and beauties from Yangtze River People and Art, mainly born in the 80s, with an average age of only 26 years old, and the youngest actor is only 23 years old. They are highly sought after by the audience for their superb acting skills, youthfulness, beauty and vitality.

3. Wutai’s repertoire is all “down-to-earth” and has strong market appeal. "The Unopenable Door" has been selected by the Ministry of Culture to participate in the 2013 National Small Theater Drama Show at the National Center for the Performing Arts on August 23. This is the first time that the Hubei Provincial Theater Troupe has participated in the National Small Theater Show since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and it is also the provincial Since the establishment of the Performing Arts Group and Yangtze River People's Art Group, it is the first small theater drama to participate in a national performance. It is also the second time that Yangtze River People's Art has participated in a national drama performance within a year after the drama "Faith" participated in the national drama performance in Jinan, Shandong in May this year. After the three suspense dramas entered major ticket theaters in Wuhan in early July, more than 10,000 tickets have been sold without large-scale publicity and promotion. Some ticket sales outlets even had long queues to grab tickets, creating a Our hospital’s ticket sales have been extremely hot in history. The original hilarious dramas "Don't Be Afraid of Death" and "The Itch of Life" have been deeply loved by the audience since they were staged in June this year.

4. When buying stocks or lottery tickets, it is better to buy theater tickets from the Yangtze River People’s Art Theatre. In order to repay the audience's love for us, we have specially launched the "Watch the Drama, Win Big Prizes" activity. With the support of all merchants, about 20% of the audience at each performance will receive surprise prizes. Three TV stations At the last performance of each round of suspense drama, a cash prize of 10,000 yuan will be generated. In other words, three viewers of the three suspense dramas will receive cash prizes of 10,000 yuan on the spot. In order to ensure the fairness and authenticity of the 10,000-yuan grand prize, we specially invited comrades from the Notary Office to supervise the lottery throughout the entire process.

5. Changjiang People’s Art Group has changed its previous creative situation of focusing on main melody dramas, and formed a pattern of focusing on the production of main melody dramas with one hand and entertainment dramas with the other hand, so as to satisfy the diversification of different audience groups. cultural needs.

6. Fully embody the principles of humanistic care and cultural benefit to the people. To make it easier for citizens to purchase tickets, we have opened more than 30 ticket sales outlets in Wuhan, including Chutian Ticketing, Damai Ticketing, and Universal Studios. We adopt methods such as group buying, a combination of private ticketing and individual ticketing, and a combination of window ticketing and online shopping. At the same time, we have also set up low fares, specifically for the disabled, college students and the elderly over 60 years old, with a low fare of 60 yuan. , they can enjoy low fare discounts at all ticket windows with relevant documents.

In addition, "Monsoon", a classic song by singing queen Faye Wong, will become popular again, getting stronger and stronger! We will meet Jiangcheng fans and theater fans soon! Changjiang People's Art Edition "Monsoon Wind": The "Yangtze River Monsoon" blows particularly fiercely! It seems as if everything in the world has disappeared! The Yangtze River monsoon, resisting the plan is useless, and then you spend all your money and invite your best friends! Bumping in the warm wind, I stopped for a while in the theater and watched the scenes of love behind the curtain, which made my heart flutter!

"Yangtze River Monsoon"! "Heart" drama "heart" moves, "heart" life "heart" friends!

Finally, thank you again for your support to us. I wish all of your dreams are like the audience elevator in our D8 space, from the first floor to the eighth floor, in one step!

Thank you!

I hope this helps you. . .