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Modern day theatre performance in china

Modern day theatre performance in china. Dora Chang Johnson December 2, 2010 UW-Baraboo. Dora chang johnson. Chinese language Instructor at UW-Richland Director, Playwright and Blogger Contact Info: e- mail:dora.johnson@uwc.edu. Dynasty vs drama/theatre. Shang Dynasty : (100BC)

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Modern day theatre performance in china

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  1. Modern day theatre performance in china Dora Chang Johnson December 2, 2010 UW-Baraboo

  2. Dora changjohnson • Chinese language Instructor at UW-Richland • Director, Playwright and Blogger • Contact Info: • e-mail:dora.johnson@uwc.edu

  3. Dynasty vs drama/theatre • Shang Dynasty: (100BC) • theatrical entertainment often involved music, clowning and acrobatic displays • Tang Dynasty: (600AD) • The Age of 1000 Entertainments • Emperor Tang Ming Huang established an acting school known as “The Pear Garden” to produce a form of drama that was primarily musical.

  4. Song Dynasty: (1000AD) • many popular plays involving acrobatics and music • Yuan Dynasty: (1279 AD) • First Golden Age for Chinese Theatre • more sophisticated form with a four or five act structure • Yuan drama spread across China and diversified into numerous regional forms, the best known of which is Chinese Opera (Beijing Opera)

  5. Ming Dynasty: ( 1368 AD) • Ming drama works remained to be performed as Chinese opera • different from Yuan drama: Ming drama is Southern-styled 'kun qu',hence is termed as Southern drama • also known as marvel dramas 'zhuanqi',inheriting its characteristics of exploiting the strange & fantastic of the Tang and Song dramas

  6. Qing Dynasty: (1644-1911) • Regional theater/drama forming, most important of all: Beijing Opera • Theatre became more politized

  7. Beijing opera (京剧, Jing ju） • Character: • Sheng: (生) is the main male role • Dan :(旦) refers to any female role • Jing: (净) is a painted face male role. • Chou:(丑) is a male clown role.

  8. Mei lang fang theatre(beijing)

  9. Monkey king (video) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VOCDFIW4xg

  10. Modern drama:huàjù 话剧(spoken play) • Introduced towards the end of Qing Dynasty • Five different stages • Western dramatic style

  11. First stage:new dramaRepulbic of china (1907-1919) • (Towards the End of Qing Dynasty) • “Spring Willow Society” performed the first Western Play, Hua Ju (spoken Play): Black Slave’s Cry to Heaven (adapt from Uncle Tom’s Cabin) • Translation of Western dramas or novels • Social commentary, mainly political

  12. HuajuSinicization: • Sinicization, Sinicisation or Sinification • 中国化 Zhōngguóhuà or 汉化 Hànhuà)

  13. Black Slave’s Cry to Heaven

  14. Pygmalion –George bernardshaw (1907)

  15. Oh yang yuqian(1889-1962)

  16. second stage: huaju(1919-1929)May fouth movement(5.4.1919)(New culture movement) • Hu Shi (1891-1962)

  17. New culture movement (continued) • Called for the creation of a new Chinese culture based on global and western standards, especially democracy and science • Vernacular(common form of expression) literature • The re-examination of Confucian texts and ancient classics using modern textual and critical methods

  18. Hong shen（1894-1955)

  19. Hongsen(continued) • FirstChineseTheatrestudentinUS,studiedatHarvardUniversityDramaClassin1919 • Introduced“script”,“director”,“stagesystem”andadvocatefemaleandmaleactingcollaboration • FirstChineseCinemaScript • PavedthefoundationforModernDrama,HuaJuandChineseCinema

  20. ThirdStage:leftwingera(1929-1937) • Red storm striking globally in the 30’s • LedbytheCommunistParty • 1929FoundedShanghaiArtTheatre,advocate“proletariat” (lower social class,people with no wealth except their children) • HuaJunow is not only for intellectuals, but also for the “common people” • Many young playwrights emerged, Cao Yu’s Thunderstorm was a representataion

  21. 曹禺CáoYǔ 1910-1996 • China’s most important playwright • “Thunder Storm” (1934), milestone in Chinese theatre of 20th century

  22. fourth stage: sino-japanese war (1937-1945) • KMT (National Party) and CPC(Communist Party of China) worked together to fight the Japanese • HuaJu entering it’s Golden Era using “drama” as a tool to join force and express nationalism • First Theatre Festival was founded • Massive amount of original plays by Chinese playwrights such as Song Zhide, Laoshe, Xiayan, Caoyu etc….

  23. Lao sheLao She(1899-1966)

  24. Tea house (1957)

  25. Director: Jiao juyin焦菊隐 (1905-1975)

  26. Director Jiao juyin (continued) -1935 Studied in France -1942First director to -Translated large amount of European Plays -Explored HuaJu and Xi Qu with nationalism

  27. Fifth stage:People republic of china (1949-Present) • Established: • Chinese Youth Art Theatre (1949), celebrated Republic’s founding, later 2001 ) • Beijing People’s Art Theatre (1954) • The Central Academy of China (1950) • Shanghai Theater Academy(1956)

  28. Beijing People's Art Theatre • Established in 1952 • First rate national theatre in China

  29. 1. Capital theatre

  30. 2.Mini theatre (1994)

  31. 3.Experimental theatre(2003)

  32. Waiting for godot

  33. National centre for the performing arts (2007)

  34. National theatre of china • Directly under Ministry of Culture • Largest state-level performing art organization • Founded in 2001(Former China National Youth Theatre and China National Experiemental Theatre) • Drama, Comedies and Experimental Form

  35. National Theatre of China (continued) • Actor System • Full Contract • First Agent • Qualification exams: memorization, characterization • Minimum of Fourth Class • State provides First Class actors with special stipend

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