Published on Jun 9, 2017

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Genre: NCPA

Dates: August 23-27, 2017

Venue: Drama Theatre of NCPA

Prices: 100, 200, 320, 400, 480, 580

Features: Beijing People's Art Theatre will be presents famous chinese contemporary director LI Liuyi's Uncle Vanya at Drama Theatre during the 2017 NCPA International Theatre Festival from August 24-27.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

LI Liuyi -- Stage Director
LI Liuyi is the stage director and screenwriter of Beijing People's Art Theatre. His theory of "Pure Drama" and drama explorations are hailed as "LI Liuyi's Method" which is widely praised and researched. LI Liuyi continues cooperation with outstanding artists in many fields. He made debut with his works at invitation of numerous international festivals, and he is commissioned to create works. He is known as Asia’s leading modernist director.

LI Liuyi is the most influential contemporary drama director in China. According to Japanese modern drama master Tadashi Suzuki, "LI Liuyi is Asia's most influential stage artist in the new century". The Japanese scholars respect him as "a leading figure of the Chinese drama in the next two decades and representative of the Asian drama". Mr. TONG Daoming, a drama critic, hails LI Liuyi as "a drama director with profound understanding of the traditional Chinese opera art”. Directed by LI Liuyi, the drama Beijinger is the third milestone work of Beijing People's Art Theater following Teahouse and Uncle Doggie's Nirvana. LI Liuyi has directed nearly 50 works in the field of traditional Chinese opera, drama, opera, musical drama, ballet dance drama and modern dance drama. He is invited to perform and be commissioned for creation at numerous international festivals. At the invitation of “2009 European Capital of Culture", he directed opera The Land of Smiles in Opera House Linz Austria, and became the first Chinese drama director marching towards the European mainstream opera community. He directed "New Drama" Women Trilogy at Opening Ceremony for the Holland Art Festival, and was interviewed by the Queen of the Netherlands.

Beijing People's Art Theatre
Beijing People's Art Theatre is a national theatre with unique performance style. Built on June 12th, 1952, it was first headed by CAO Yu, the great dramatist in China. Since its foundation, there are nearly 300 plays of different forms and styles put up here. The representative plays include Hufu, CAI Wenji, WU Zetian, Longxugou Ditch, Camel Xiangzi, Tea House, Thunderstorm, Sunrise, WANG Zhaojun, Absolute Signal, Xiaojing Hutong, and so on. Of them, more than one play has been performed over 100 times, and won national "Wenhua Award (for professional theatrical artworks)", "the Best Works Award" and municipal "Gold Chrysanthemum Award" and "Literature & Art Award".

Over the past half century, the performances by Beijing People's Art Theatre have spread all over the country, and the theatre's distinctive performance style has taken root in the mass audience. In 1980, Tea House was performed in Germany, France and Switzerland, which is the first time for Chinese stage play to go abroad. Following that, a series of plays were performed in Japan, Canada, Singapore, South Korea, Egypt, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau, including Tea House, WANG Zhaojun, Top Restaurant, Death of a Salesman, Uncle Goggie's Nirvana, Bird Man, RUAN Lingyu, Curio, and Wuchang Nüdiao.

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