Literary character gets new lease of life

By ZHANG KUN | China Daily | Updated: 2019-08-10 10:26
Share
Share - WeChat
Kunqu Opera play Six Chapters of a Floating Lifeis brought to audience in Shanghai in an attempt to take the hero and heroine's dream for an ideal life of the literati to the contemporary age, and make it relevant to everyone. [Photo provided to China Daily]

"We want to take their dream for an ideal life of the literati to the contemporary age, and make it relevant to everyone," says Zhang.

"In the past we had numerous collaborations with artistic institutions such as the Shanghai Ballet and Shanghai Opera House, but this is the first production for which we have full copyright."

SGT brought together veteran artists from the Nanjing-based Jiangsu Kunqu Opera Theater, young playwright Luo Zhou and theater director Ma Junfeng, to create the original Kunqu Opera play from the autobiographical prose. Luo says that prior to the premiere she was most touched by the sadness Shen Fu expressed upon losing his wife. "So I decided to start the play as a recollection: Yun has died when the curtain rises, and Shen sits in loneliness waiting for her soul to come back."

|<< Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next   >>|
Photo

Related Stories

Top
BACK TO THE TOP
English
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US