"Desire Under the Elms" Academic Collision Textbook-Level Drama

The star version of "Desire Under the Elms" collides with the textbook drama. From February 16 to 19, 2017, the "textbook" drama "Desire Under the Elms" "Celebrity Edition" will be performed at the National Center for the Performing Arts as the "opening drama" of the New Year. The play stars famous actors Shi Ke, Liu Xiaofeng, and Zhou Yemang, and is directed by Shen Liang, a young director of the National Center for the Performing Arts.

Drama "textbook" has become a must-see drama

It is understood that "Desire Under the Elms" is the mid-stage masterpiece of the famous American playwright Eugene O'Neill. Eugene O'Neill is the founder of American national drama. He won the Pulitzer Prize four times in his life and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936. Critics once pointed out: "Before O'Neill, America only had theater; after O'Neill, America only had drama."

Eugene O'Neill's "Desire Under the Elms" is called a "textbook" for screenwriting, The play was completed in 1924 and was made into a movie of the same name in the same year. It is understood that the play's script was banned in Boston because of its incest theme, and was not allowed to be performed in the UK until 1940. A drama critic once said, "Mr. Cao Yu's play "Thunderstorm" is also a work that 'stands on the shoulders of giants', and this giant is "Desire Under the Elms."

The creative team's science class" "Academic School" Collision

It is understood that the star version of the drama "Desire Under the Elms" is co-starred by Shi Ke, Liu Xiaofeng, Zhou Yemang, etc. The female lead Shi Ke is a "double queen" on the screen and on the stage. , the male protagonist Liu Xiaofeng is a "thousand-faced niche" in film, television dramas and stages. He once played "Fahai" in the 2005 version of "The Legend of White Snake".

In addition, Zhou Yemang, who plays "Lin Chong" in the CCTV TV series "Water Margin", has joined the cast. After the Spring Festival, the three will interpret a drama showing "desire" on the stage.

It is understood that the director of the play Shen Liang, Shi Ke, Liu Xiaofeng, and Zhou Yemang are from the Central Academy of Drama and the Shanghai Theater Academy respectively. At that time, a collision of academic schools will take place on the stage. be displayed.

Performance time: February 16 to 19, 2017

Performance location: National Center for the Performing Arts

Performance ticket price: VIP/480/400/320 /200/100

Ticket booking hotline: 010-66550000

Official website booking: www.chncpa.org

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