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22 plays to cheer up Wuzhen Theater Festival

( Chinaculture.org ) Updated: 2016-07-29 13:48:04

22 plays to cheer up Wuzhen Theater Festival

In scene from the play Der Spierer. [Photo/wuzhenfestival.com]

The first theme includes Der Spierer, directed by German modern theater master Frank Castorf; An Enemy of the People, directed by Jan Klata and performed by the Norodowy Stary Teatr; Kaligula, created by Lithuanian new generation director Vidas Bareikis and Don Quixote, by Spanish director Carles Alfaro.

The second includes The Tiger Lillies Perform Hamlet, brought by the Theater of the Republic from Denmark and the British rock band The Tiger Lilies; the puppet show The Tempest from Romania; King Lear, by Chinese young director Dou Hui and Hamlet Machine by Chen Henghui, the art director of the Hong Kong's Alice Theatre Laboratory.

In the third series, themed "the Power of Silence", there are Mother Earth, directed by Sergey Zemlyansky from the Moscow Drama Theatre of A.S Pushkin; Blind, produced by the Black Hole Theatre of Australia and Duda Paiva Theatre of the Netherlands; The Dictionary of Soul, directed by Li Ning and performed by the Physical Guerrillas and Papa's Time-Machine, designed by Ma Liang, a renowned Chinese conceptual photographer and visual artist.

The last series, "The World Where We Exist" will arouse wild imagination. It includes Writing in Water, created by Lai Shengchuan, permanent chairman of Wuzhen Theater Festival and He Jiong, a famous Chinese host of the entertainment program. In addition, Legends and Rumors, the Swiss play, The Thundering Glaciers, the French play and Drift Home, an Internet play will be performed.

 
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