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Theater festival favorites take stage in Hangzhou

By Xu Wenwen | September 23, 2016, Friday | Print Edition

SHOWCASING plays from five top international theater festivals, the fifth annual Hangzhou Contemporary Theater Festival kicked off earlier this week.

Led by acclaimed theater director Meng Jinghui, this year’s line-up includes invited performances from France’s Avignon Festival, the Edinburgh Frontier Drama Exhibition, International Drama Festival in Tokyo, China’s Wuzhen Theater Festival and the Adelaide Festival of Art from Australia.

“Hangzhou is a cultural city,” Meng told Shanghai Daily. “It’s accepting of all kinds of plays and I see local young people are willing to buy theater tickets.”

“The festival is so contemporary that it goes a step further in the art field,” said theater director Philippos Philippou from Greece. His performance “Macbeth without Words” was performed following the festival’s opening ceremony.

The festival runs until September 30 with shows scheduled at theaters across town.

 

 

Show listing:

• Dance till Collapse
(Dance, Chinese/Chinese subs)

In this three-dimension world, an object can move in any direction — the same goes for people.

Dancers/actors use their bodies to explain that how people follow a variety of life paths toward different futures.

Director Liu Chang is the star actor at Meng Jinghui Studio and stars in many of Meng’s shows.

 

Date: September 23 and 24, 7:30pm,

Venue: Hangzhou Art Theater (杭州艺苑剧场)

Tickets: 150 yuan

• Girl X (Japanese/ Chinese subs)

Winner of the Best Play and Best Script awards at the Bangkok Theater Festival 2014, “Girl X” was a unique text-based play where projected images and texts reflect the atmosphere of Japanese society after the great earthquake that hit eastern Japan in 2011.

Set in present-day Tokyo, “Girl X” conveys the mood of an anxiety-ridden society through members of an anonymous urban family. There’s sister, who lives with her rich husband and their young daughter, her derelict younger brother and Man, her former boyfriend who now wanders the streets in search of the Enemy.

Written by Suguru Yamamoto, one of Japan’s youngest and most promising playwrights and directors, “Girl X” has received much acclaim in Japan, Thailand and Malaysia for capturing a spectrum of complex emotions including the feelings of insecurity, indifference, tension and relief.

 

Date: September 24 and 25, 7:30pm,

Venue: Hangzhou Grand Theater, Multi Functional Room (杭州大剧院可变剧场)

Tickets: 200 yuan

• Temptation and Only Bones (Silent)

This show is a blend of circus and physical theater. Body movements, dance and clownery are employed to create an absurd comedy taking place under a single light bulb.

Clown-mime Thomas Monckton from New Zealand stars in this solo production about one man’s struggle with his addiction to cigarettes. Deceptively light-hearted, this solo show is sure to tug at your heartstrings and tap your funny bone.

 

Date: September 24 and 25, 7:30pm

Venue: Zhejiang Province Art Gallery (浙江省文化馆小剧场)

Tickets: 200 yuan

• Romeo and Juliet (Chinese/ Chinese subs)

Shakespeare’s tragedy “Romeo and Juliet” has been adapted many times by many directors. Here presented by young Chinese director Li Yao, the drama is set in modern China and, of course, revolves around two young souls who fall madly in love against the wishes of their feuding houses.

 

Date: September 26 and 27, 7:30pm

Venue: Hangzhou Art Theater (杭州艺苑剧场)

Tickets: 150 yuan

• Measure for Measure (Chinese /Chinese Subs)

Shakespeare’s most searching exploration of sexual politics and social justice “Measure for Measure” is performed by a Chinese cast. Director Shen Wei elaborates the dilemmas between justice and injustice, loyalty and hypocrisy, as well as taboo and desire.

 

Date: September 29 and 30, 7:30pm

Venue: Hangzhou Art Theater (杭州艺苑剧场)

Tickets: 150 yuan

 

Tickets are available at www.hangzhouplus.com (English) and

Http://i.damai.cn/newspecial/2016hzddxjj/index.html (Chinese)

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