Jing’an gets ready for theater fete
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The city’s annual theatrical extravaganza will return next month after the coronavirus outbreak derailed it last year.
The 2021 Shanghai Jing’an Modern Drama Valley, to be held from April 23 to May 10, will present 20 productions at Daning Theater, Shanghai Majestic Theater and the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center. Over 80 percent will be Shanghai debuts, according to the Jing’an Culture and Tourism Bureau.
Opening the festival will be Jing’an District’s first original “red” drama, “Once Upon A Time in Fudeli,” set against the backdrop of Fudeli, where the second national congress of the Communist Party of China was held. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CPC.
In July 1922, 12 CPC delegates gathered in secret at the residence of Li Da in the shikumen neighborhood Fudeli, one of few remaining clandestine Party sites in the city following a series of police raids. Over eight days, they shaped the first constitution of the CPC, which contained six chapters and 4,000 words.
Now, the museum of the CPC’s second national congress stands at the site on Laochengdu Road N.
Producer Li Dong said the drama is based on true stories and historical documents of the CPC and shows the early Party members’ relentless efforts to draft the first constitution.
Other productions at the festival include “Copenhagen,” presented by the National Theater of China, and “The Gadfly,” newly adapted by the Guangzhou Drama Art Center.
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