20 16 wuzhen drama festival

The main contents of 20 16 wuzhen drama festival are as follows:

The 4th Wuzhen Drama Festival will be held from June 6th to1October 3rd to 22nd, 2006. The theme of this drama festival is "Jump", which means to look forward to the future based on the classics. During the 10-day drama festival, 22 plays from Germany, France, Russia, Spain, Japan, Poland, Switzerland, Australia, Lithuania, Romania, Chile, the Netherlands and other countries and regions 13 had nearly 80 performances, which was the highest in the past years.

1. This Wuzhen Drama Festival invited Lin Zhaohua, a dramatist and director who started a new era of experimental drama in China, as honorary chairman. Meanwhile, Lin Zhaohua's new work "Doctor Godot or Six People Looking for the 18th Camel" will be premiered in the world during Wuzhen Drama Festival. The whole invited performance unit consists of four sections: contemporary new classic series, Shakespeare memorial series, space and body series and discovery series.

2. In order to provide more diverse theater performance space, Wuzhen has also created a brand-new comprehensive performance space "Net Theater" this year. In order to realize the artistic innovation of domestic and foreign troupes, this year Wuzhen will hold a special performance in the preface hall and pillow water sculpture hall of Wuzhen Grand Theatre. At the same time, it will continue the outdoor performance characteristics of the 20 15 Wuzhen Drama Festival, and open up a water theater, Shi Tian Square and Sun Moon Square. As in previous years, the drama festival will also hold drama activities such as youth competitions, carnival performances, town dialogues, drama workshops, and drama long street banquets.

(1) The opening play invited The Gambler, the masterpiece of the German contemporary drama master.

The eight plays in the contemporary classic series all interpret drama classics from a contemporary perspective. One of the most important works is the opening play of the representative work The Gambler brought by the German contemporary drama master Frank Castoff. Frank Casdorff has been the artistic director and general director of Berlin People's Theatre for 25 years since 1992. He spared no effort to support and cultivate the younger generation of drama with his profound knowledge of drama creation and innovative stage performance, which influenced the development of drama aesthetics in Europe in the last1/4th century. Many viewers still remember the opening play "Physicist" of Wuzhen Drama Festival last year. Its director Fritz was the royal starring director Casdorff. With the support of Casdorff, Fritz stepped onto the stage of Berlin People's Theatre as a director.

The play Gambler is adapted from the novel of the same name by Russian literary master Dostoevsky. The whole drama series combines multimedia visual images, literature, stage art and drama performance in one furnace. The 280-minute play gives Dostoevsky's legendary work a strong contemporary significance: "Everything is possible under complete out of control, evil, indulgence and agitation, or in other words, everything is meaningless."

(2) The drama Public Enemy

Jan Klata from the old theater in Krakow, Poland, is a popular avant-garde drama director in Poland today. His unique artistic personality, unique creative style and anti-serious thinking tradition of Polish drama are called "bad boys" in Polish drama circles. This Wuzhen Drama Festival will stage his drama "Public Enemy".

(3) Regula, the masterpiece of Camus, a French existentialist literature master.

VIDAS BAREIKIS, the new generation director of Lithuania, brought the masterpiece Kari Gula by Camus, the French existentialist literature master. The play will be staged in Wuzhen Water Sculpture Museum. This classic play will be interpreted in a new way, and China audience will be invited to participate in the performance.

(4) puppet show Don Quixote

Carles alfaro from Spain brought the puppet show Don Quixote. 20 16 is the 400th anniversary of the death of Cervantes, a great Spanish literary master. The play condensed the 820,000-word novel into 60 minutes, presenting Don Quixote and his entourage Sancho, a famous Spanish literary image that has influenced the world for 400 years, to the contemporary audience.

(5) The experimental drama "Cherry Garden"

Inspired by cherry orchard, the representative work of Russian playwright Chekhov, the cutting-edge Japanese director Yanahara Meibang created the experimental drama Cherry Garden, with an all-female cast, and moved the story frame to contemporary Tokyo to conduct drama experiments in the collision of body and language.

(6) In addition, Ghost 2.0, which was adapted from Ibsen 1885 by Chu Wang, a young drama director in China, and Big Chicken, an annual novel adapted from Romulus the Great by Chen Minghao, a young drama director in China, will appear in Wuzhen. Meng Jinghui, artistic director of this Wuzhen Drama Festival, will also bring the masterpiece "He has two revolvers and black and white eyes" by the famous Italian playwright Dario Buddha.

(7) The brand-new Hamlet performed by Danish * * * and the troupe.

20 16, the whole world is commemorating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, and Wuzhen Drama Festival also invited four Shakespeare-related works with different styles. The most innovative Danish theatrical troupe and internationally renowned British rock band Tiger Lillies will perform a brand-new Hamlet. Director Martin Dulianiez eliminated monologues, subplots, serial fights and satire in Shakespeare's original works, and promoted the development of the story with 2 1 new songs.

(8) The puppet show "The Tempest" brought by the Romanian Spichugon Troupe puts people and me on a double stage and explores pain, patience, hope and disappointment through exquisite puppet performances. Dou Hui, a young drama director in China, was born as a director. His "King Lear" will build King Lear's kingdom in the form of multiple stage vision and explore people's spiritual world in multiple spaces and times. Hamlet Machine is the masterpiece of Heiner Mill, a contemporary German playwright, and later adapted Shakespeare's Hamlet in a modern way.

(9) Mother's Poems

Nonverbal drama has always been an indispensable part of the drama festival. There are five works in this section this year. Sergey Zemlyansky, director of Pushkin Theatre in Moscow, Russia, created the pantomime Poems of Mom to express his mother's love and pain. Blind, a human puppet drama jointly produced by Australian Black Hole Troupe and Dutch Duda Pava Troupe, is based on the personal experience of Duda Pava, the leading actor and puppeteer. The theme of the human puppet drama "Those People" brought by the French Lily Label Troupe is vagrancy, nomadic life and foreign land.

(10) The blind, a human puppet show jointly produced by the Australian Black Hole Troupe and the Dutch Dudapawa Troupe.

(1 1) Li Ning, a young drama director in China, has a human drama "Dictionary of the Mind" which combines pioneering means such as installation, behavior and dance, while "Daddy's Time Machine" designed by Ma Liang, a famous visual artist and conceptual photographer in China, is an original stage expression in which actors and puppets perform in parallel.

Finally, Lin Zhaohua's masterpiece "Doctor Godot or Six People Looking for the 18th Camel" is also the highlight of Wuzhen Drama Festival, which is also the world premiere of the play. Adapted from Dietrich Schwanitz, the play tells the story of five patients with severe schizophrenia who think they are the most famous playwrights in Europe in the 20th century in the reading room. The five patients ridicule each other's drama forms, thoughts and achievements with the first-person tone and angle of the five playwrights. This drama imitates all the forms of drama represented by these playwrights: Bernard Shaw's discussion drama, Pirandello's descendants' drama, Brecht's educational drama, Younescu's absurd drama and Beckett's meta-drama.