Published on Jun 1, 2017

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Genre: NCPA

Dates: August 31 - September 3, 2017

Venue: Drama Theatre of NCPA

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

Features: As the features performance of the Works by Famous Chinese Contemporary Directors Invitational Exhibition. From August 31 to September 3, drama Listening to Monk Hongyi will be proforming at Drama Theatre of NCPA.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

TIAN Qinxin -- Director
As Director of National Theater of China, deputy director of Institute of Film, TV and Theatre in Peking University, art director of Hangzhou Culture Radio and TV Group and China's first-level director, TIAN Qinxin enjoys the special allowances of the State Council.

In China’s stage play, she has always insisted on the cultural quality and humanistic feelings and has been a banner not falling. The new explorations of Chinese traditional themes and the world’s masterworks and the captures of the sensitive topics in the modern and contemporary age are contained in her works. She combines the contemporary artistic concepts with the oriental aesthetics when presenting the stage and she emphasizes the performances integrated with physical expressions and poetic language, complex space-time structure and strong visual impact. Her works have established her own school and they also have aprofound influence on the international theater field.

Before and after World Theater Day on March 27th, 2014, the dramas of Green Snake and Unique Beauty directed and written by her were performed in the U.S. at the same time. Green Snake, jointly commissioned by the 41st Hong Kong Arts Festival and the 15th Shanghai International Arts Festival and jointly produced by National Theater of China and National Theatre of Scotland, attended World Stage: 2014 International Theatre Festival as the only representative repertoire of China at the invitation of John F. Kennedy Arts Center. Green Snake was one of the most sensational works in the performing market of Greater China Region in 2013, and it was also invited to appear in 2014 Edinburgh Arts Festival and was rated as the first of “mystery plays”. The drama Unique Beauty directed by TIAN Qinxin was on tour in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Houston. She was also invited to rehearse three dramas in South Korea.

Her representative works include drama, such as The Field of Life and Death, Wild Whirlwind, Chinese Orphan, Red Rose and White Rose, Matters in Ming Dynasty, The Yellow Storm, Green Snake, Beijing Fayuan Temple, Kunqu opera including 1699 · The Peach Blossom Fan, and musical The Song of the Film (2010).

She has won plenty of honours and awards. She has won gold award of performance in China Arts Festival, National Stage Art Excellent Project Award, Annual Drama and Annual Best Director Awards of Yi Theatre Awards, Wenhua Award of Ministry of Culture, Director Award, Screenwriting Award, Golden Lion Director Award, Screenwriting Award of CAO Yu Literary Award, Excellent Drama Art Worker of Ministry of Culture at 100 Anniversary of Chinese Drama, Hall of Fame Figure of One-hundred Chinese Drama and so on. The works published include theatre collection The Collected Plays of TIAN Qinxin (Drama) (DVD),as well as books including I Act in Play Because I’m Sad, TIAN Qinxin’s Drama Field, TIAN Qinxin’s Play Scripts and TianQinxin’s Rehearsals – The Yellow Storm.

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