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Four distinct plays make up ‘Wuzhen Midsummer Night’
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CURTAINS will rise on the special season performance of “Wuzhen Midsummer Night” from July 27 to August 18.
The joint project by Huang Lei, Stan Lai and Meng Jinghui, who were also the founders of Wuzhen Theater Festival in 2013, is to present four plays in four different styles — “Miss Ophelia,” “The Chorus,” “Faustus,” and “Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land.”
During the “Wuzhen Midsummer Night,” theater lovers can enjoy stage plays in the forms of drama, a paper puppet children’s show and musical theater.
Stan Lai’s “Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land” has toured and held hundreds of shows in nearly 50 cities across China since 2006. It has been hailed as “the most popular stage show in contemporary China.”
Skillfully utilizing the form of “a play within a play,” Lai fuses the modern tragedy “Secret Love” with the ancient comedy “Peach Blossom Land” on the same stage, creating an unprecedented theatrical experience for the audience.
“Miss Ophelia” is a multi-media puppet and live show by Het Filiaal from the Netherlands. The play is a quick review of the life of Miss Ophelia in only 45 minutes via the change of one suitcase, the performance of two actors and the images of four paper puppets.
Miss Ophelia is like a magician, telling a story of love, dreams, loss and rebirth in her own unique way.
The Chinese musical “The Chorus” is adapted from the acclaimed film by Christophe Barratier of the same name. It invites audiences to embark on a poignant journey filled with dreams, redemption and love.
Meng Jinghui, one of China’s most renowned pioneer theater directors, has brought his distinct avant-garde theatrical style to the stage with a bold adaptation of Goethe’s literary masterpiece “Faust.”
Borrowing virtual reality and other cutting-edge technology, Meng’s “Faust” leads the audience to experience Faust’s pact with the devil against the backdrop of a collision between technology and art. The play not only presents a visual impact to viewers, but also evokes their thoughts on how to fight the devil in their own hearts in the face of unlimited temptation.
To book the four plays, please see https://www.ewuzhen.com./
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