Russian drama ＂anna karenine＂ unveiled the 2019 Beijing International Youth Drama Festival.
Still photos of the drama "anna karenine" of the Baltic House Theatre Du Yang photo
BEIJING, Beijing, November 2 (Reporter Ying Ni) The drama "anna karenine" of the Russian Baltic House Theatre was staged at the National Theatre on the evening of the 1st, which opened the curtain for the 2019 Beijing International Youth Theatre Festival. During the two-month drama festival, 21 works from China, Russian, French, Lithuanian, Belgian and Brazilian will be presented to the audience.
The opening drama anna karenine, adapted from lev tolstoy’s novel of the same name, tells the love tragedy of anna karenine, a self-seeking woman, with the background of czarist Russia in the second half of the 19th century. It was directed by Russian people’s artist Aleksandr Galibin, and won the highest theater prize of "Golden Sky Award" in St Petersburg.
Still photos of the drama "anna karenine" of the Baltic House Theatre Du Yang photo
Among other foreign plays, Lithuanian’s Under the Ice, Under the Ice mocked the poverty of culture and the absurdity of consumerism with 1000 plastic water bottles and fragmented music and video pictures. Belgium’s "forgotten to dust" is based on the Chernobyl accident, which comforts the lost soul with puppet poetry; Brazil’s "The Fury" uses 1500 books and natural light to interpret the growing and almost crazy turbulent emotions; Back to the beginning in France uses hip-hop dance to interpret Michelangelo’s Genesis as a "flowing mural" in the theater.
In domestic plays, Hamlet by Li Yao sets the stage on the ruins and reproduces Shakespeare’s tragedy in the form of experiments. Gao Xiaoqin’s Diary of a Seducer interprets the works of the same name by the existentialist philosopher Kierkegaard in the form of sound and body. Su Xiaogang’s "Mao Se" is adapted from the works of the German poet Heiner Miller, asking the proposition of "who is human"; Gu Min-wen’s Lemming is adapted from the script of Japanese poet shuji terayama to piece together an exciting and enthusiastic strange world. Peng Jiarong’s Where is Mickey? describes the absurd and bizarre family life in modern urban society. The "City" of the company with good symbiosis shows the behavior, thoughts and feelings of the little people living in Guangzhou through dance.
Still photos of the drama "anna karenine" of the Baltic House Theatre Du Yang photo
The unit "Through to avignon" includes eight works: A Doll’s House, The World is a Wandering Rabbit, Bonzi Tiger Chicken, An Experience Report on the National Happiness Index, 18th Floor, Group Age, Sleeping Beauty Awakens from a Dream, and We 2s: Labor Exchange Market. In addition, shorthand creative workshops, script reading, 48-hour V drama and other related activities will be held during the drama festival.
Meng Jinghui (second from right), artistic director and director of the Beijing International Youth Drama Festival, won the highest prize in the Baltic House International Drama Festival.
Before the live performance on the evening of the 1st, Sergey Schuber, director of the Baltic House Theatre in St. Petersburg, also presented the highest prize of the Baltic House International Drama Festival to director Meng Jinghui. In October, the Meng Jinghui version of Teahouse was officially invited by the Baltic House International Drama Festival to perform as the opening drama in St. Petersburg.