What is the current situation of the Wuzhen Theatre Festival and what will be its future development

The future of Chinese theatre belongs to the future of young people, to the young people who have the courage to submit to the youth competition unit every year, and to the future of those who perform or fail in the Youth Competition.

This year's Wuzhen Theatre Festival will add a new unit of "Experimental Experiments", and invite a number of enlighteners and inheritors of experimental theater of the world's living fossil level to join the performance. In the "Small Town Dialogue" section, we will also invite Li Brewer, Tadashi Suzuki, Meng Jinghui, Lai Shengchuan, Jin Shijie and other pioneers of experimental theater to join us**. Lanling Theatre Workshop landed at the Wuzhen Theatre Festival for the first time with the work "Actor's Experimental Classroom".

According to Lai Shengchuan, Lanling Opera Workshop was founded in 1978, formerly known as Gengxin Experimental Theater, which is the first experimental theater in Taiwan, China. The birth of Lanling directly or indirectly gave birth to many theater troupes, including performance workshops, screen performance classes, excellent drums, etc., and also cultivated a large number of theater actors, Lai Shengchuan and his wife Ding Naizhu both performed there.

In this theater festival, we have seen too many "youthful heroism" become "old-fashioned", and "natural expression" has become "sorrowful for new words". More and more young creators are in a safe corner, and they are reluctant to test outward in the safe zone of creation.

The six-year-old Wuzhen Theater Festival is still ninety-four years away from becoming a centennial theater festival. In other words, as the old saying goes: "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step", and the grand cause of the Centennial Theatre Festival is to start with "Rong" - this year's Wuzhen Theatre Festival has changed its artistic director, and Meng Jinghui, whose artistic concepts and creative views are more "cutting-edge" and "radical", has replaced the relatively stable Tian Qinxin and re-become the helmsman in charge of the direction of the festival.

In addition, in the selection of the invited repertoire, this year's drama festival also reveals the development ambition that is in line with the theme of "tolerance".

Showing a rich range of artistic expressions, the "Theatrical Metamorphosis" unit mainly focuses on showing richer artistic expressions. Among them, "Theory of Magic" presented by the French Castel Theater Company combines dance, complex images and sound installations to create a unique magical feast; The Argentinian production "Imagination" will have a cast of "floating in the air", and the dancers will also dance on the walls and floors, creating a kaleidoscopic and dynamic image; The Japanese drama "Zoo" uses VR technology to the performance, and the theme is also very interesting, when humans become the strangest "animals" in the zoo, what new things will happen? Contemporary dance theatre artist Zhao Liang presents the work "Phantom Tea Riddle", which will bring the three sacred relics of Famen Temple together on the stage for the first time in history, combining traditional Chinese culture and Western modern art techniques, bringing the audience a Zen-style dream journey.

As one of the earliest initiators of the Wuzhen Theatre Festival, Huang Lei recalls a creator he met here: "He told me that he had lost confidence and planned not to do it, but because he came here, he felt full of hope for this industry. It's really touching to see so many people lining up in such a long line every year to watch a show.

The 6th Wuzhen Theatre Festival will be held from October 18th to 28th. It is reported that this year's festival has a total of 29 plays in 6 units, with a total of 120 performances, a record high. The wide geographical coverage, the large number of creative contents, and the richness of expressions all echo the theme of this year, the word "Rong".

Talking about the biggest highlight of this year's theater festival, Meng Jinghui revealed that this year's theater festival will continue to invite world-famous troupes to perform, and will invite four top famous troupes with a long history to participate in the grand event, including the Moscow Art Theater in Russia, the Thalia Theater in Germany, the SCOT Theater in Japan, and the New Theater in Warsaw, Poland.

This year's Wuzhen Theatre Festival features a number of works that pay homage to and recreate world classics. Among them, the 2018 Sino-German cooperative drama "Teahouse" directed by Meng Jinghui and starring young actors such as Wenwen, Chen Minghao, Liu Chang, Ding Yiteng and other young actors will have its world premiere in Wuzhen, and will be staged at the Wuzhen Grand Theater as the opening drama of the Wuzhen Theater Festival. Meng Jinghui introduced that "Teahouse" carries a heavy era and historical significance, and has a special status, and this time "Teahouse" is "a grand aesthetic tribute to the literary giant Lao She".

As a Sino-German cooperative play, "Teahouse" also invited the well-known German dramatist Sebastian Kaiser to be the dramatist of the play.

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During the 2019 Theatre Festival, Wuzhen has received hundreds of thousands of visitors. And this year, this heat has ushered in another wave of growth.

A few minutes after the Wuzhen Theater Festival opened its tickets, various ticket-seeking information could already be seen on social platforms such as Weibo, Douban, and WeChat Moments. In fact, at the beginning of the 5th Wuzhen Theater Festival, there has been a "second empty" ticketing, but this year's popularity is still beyond the psychological expectations of many people.

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A few minutes after the Wuzhen Theater Festival opened its tickets, various ticket-seeking information could already be seen on social platforms such as Weibo, Douban, and WeChat Moments. In fact, at the beginning of the 5th Wuzhen Theater Festival, the number of liquids has been opened, and the invoicing "second empty" has appeared, but this year's popularity is still beyond the psychological expectations of many travelers.

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The Wuzhen Theatre Festival has a history of 1,300 years.

The Wuzhen Theater Festival was jointly initiated by Chen Xianghong, President of Wuzhen Lu Sheng Peng Co., Ltd., Huang Lei, Lai Shengchuan and Meng Jinghui, who are very influential in the Chinese theater industry, and hosted by Cultural Wuzhen Co., Ltd.

Set in Wuzhen, which has a history of 1,300 years of photography, it presents world-class high-quality plays and original works by young theater artists. Through the integration and collision of drama and life, town and master, we invite theater lovers and life dreamers from all over the world to come to the beautiful Wuzhen to experience the carnival of the soul.

On May 9, 2013, the first Wuzhen Theater Festival was grandly opened at the beautiful Wuzhen Grand Theater in the grand performance of "Dream Like a Dream" directed by Lai Sheng and Zao Zechuan. 11 days and nights, 7 theaters, 6 international invited operas, 12 performances and 25 youth competitions, 120 groups of art teams and 580 ancient town carnivals, 12 small town dialogues with Chinese and foreign masters, etc.

Cultural characteristics

One of the major features of the Wuzhen Theatre Festival is the diversity and professionalism of each performance venue. Within walking distance, there are seven indoor theaters of different sizes and functions, but equally beautiful and wonderful theaters, a large outdoor theater, and many outdoor squares for performances, forming a rare group of performance spaces in the national and even world theater festivals, adding charm to the performances of the Wuzhen Theater Festival.

Another major feature of the Wuzhen Theater Festival is that it is a professional theater festival for artists; It is a theater festival that represents young people and represents the future; It is a drama festival that shows the cultural confidence of the town and allows the world to see the confidence of traditional Chinese culture.

The above content reference: Encyclopedia - Wuzhen Theater Festival.

Chen Xianghong, Huang Lei, Lai Shengchuan, etc. are all relatively famous actors, and they can be supported by many new and Mesozoic dramas.

He Jiong, Zhang Yixing, Liu Haoran, Huang Lei, Mei Ting, Lai Shengchuan, Meng Jinghui, etc., are all I like.

There are a lot of stars I like, first of all, there are Liu Chaishou Haoran, Huang Lei, Mei Ting, Chen He, Huang Lei, etc., I like these stars very much, they are also very good in ordinary life, Ying Zhao received a lot of shoes and support from Spine Zhao.

He Jiong, Zhang Yixing, Liu Haoran, Huang Lei, Mei Ting, these people are all actors I like very much, and they are all very powerful, which makes people look forward to it.

The Wuzhen Theater Festival was co-sponsored by Chen Xianghong, Huang Lei, Lai Shengchuan and Meng Jinghui, and hosted by Wuzhen Cultural Co., Ltd. The festival consists of invited plays, youth competitions, ancient town carnivals, and small town dialogues (forums, summits, workshops, readings, exhibitions) and other units.

With the 1,300-year-old history of Wuzhen as the stage, theater lovers and life dreamers from all over the world are invited to experience the carnival of the soul in the beautiful Wuzhen. The 9th Wuzhen Theatre Festival will be held from November 25 to December 4, 2022, with the annual theme of "Abundance".

Background

Wuzhen has a profound cultural heritage and unique natural landscape, and its complete performance and reception capacity provides Kuanling Shi support for Wuzhen to hold the theater festival, and it is no accident that domestic and foreign theater masters, art and cultural circles favor Wuzhen. Through the drama festival, the town will gather the aura of more international masters, and the theater festival will bring a vibrant future to this thousand-year-old town.

At the same time, art can play a role in popularizing education, hoping to use drama to influence more people, which is the original intention of the Wuzhen Theater Festival. Huang Lei came up with the idea of making drama in 2007, and in 2013, he and Chen Xianghong, Lai Shengchuan, and Meng Jinghui launched the Wuzhen Theater Festival.

At the beginning, Huang Lei just wanted to launch a project similar to the youth show, and with the support of Chen Xianghong, the chief planner of Wuzhen Scenic Area, it became an international drama festival.

On the premise of doing a good job in normalized epidemic prevention and control without slackening, through large and small "festivals" or activities, art has stepped out of the palace and into the lives of ordinary people, and contributed to the high-quality development of local tourism.

The significance is to award the core Jumin drama and spread it, so that more people can feel the charm of Wuzhen drama. The more important thing is to hope that in this way, more young people can enjoy and pass it on.

It can promote intercultural exchanges, promote local culture, expand popularity, and effectively promote local economic development, which has a far-reaching impact.