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NCPA Drama Production

Returning Home on a Snowy Night

Date: May 21-22 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 180-680 yuan

This drama is named after a line from the poem Staying at a Cottage of Mt. Hibiscus on a Night of Snow of the Tang Dynasty: 'When the mountains lurk dim in the pale dark, the cottage of shabby looks stands lone in twilight. By the wattle gate now I hear dogs loudly bark, the master has come home in the snow of night.' Wu Zuguang, the playwright, described the joys and sorrows of the famous actor named Wei Liansheng in the historical context where people were swaying in the midst of a raging storm. He has experienced both the prosperity of being popular in early years and hard times of despair; and the love story between him and Yuchun, a concubine of the bureaucrat named Su Hongji is just a sad melody that cost their lives.

Kindur by T.P.O. Company In Beijing

Date: June 8-11 - 6:30 pm

Venue: Beijing's Oriental Media Center

Price: 200-240 yuan

In Icelandic "Kindu" means "sheep" and this is a show dedicated to Iceland seen through the eyes of its adventurous sheep. Let's take sheep: locked inside a pen for the cold season, they can then taste full freedom traveling by themselves or in small groups from spring to autumn. In their journey they have the opportunity to dip inside the remotest nature and visit its 'hidden' inhabitants, elves and trolls. In their journey the sheep protagonists of "Kindur" show us this secret world, strong and fragile at the same time, capable of communicating children the extraordinary beauty of nature.