April 23 this year is the 27th World Book Day. The Shanghai Grand Theater, its YOUNG Theater and Shanghai West Bund Theater will hold the first online linkage activity on that day. The three theaters will invite more than ten Chinese and foreign artists to serve as "co-heads" of literary and artistic food. From 10:00 a.m., they will bring 12 consecutive hours of literary and artistic relay live broadcasts. Today, when the "Group Leader" in Shanghai was born, the first online event of "Daxi YOUNG Gathering" has also become an "online literary group purchase".

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Accordingly, the content of this "group purchase list" was finally promoted by invitations from the three theaters to the artist circle of friends, including online performances, behind-the-scenes tours, interactive readings, art lectures, music connections and other types of activities. The troupes and guests participating in the live broadcast included the Royal Ballet's "Winter's Tale", the Experimental Raging Theatre's "Hamlet on the Street", "Hamlet: From Global to Global" and other programs, as well as Chen Xinyi, Dominic Deromgu Dominic Dromgoole, Xie Junhao, Ma Liang, Xiaohe, Zhu Hongxuan and other artists.
In 12 hours, the audience can watch good dramas and read classics. The audience can watch free live broadcasts (such as Sina Weibo, WeChat video account, Douyin) through the official social accounts of the Shanghai Grand Theater, YOUNG Theater, and Shanghai West Bund Theater. , Bilibili, Xiaohongshu and other platforms) to spend the World Book Day together.
Shakespeare is the main theme of this live broadcast
April 23 is World Book Day and Shakespeare's Day. Shakespeare will be a major theme in the activity of "Reading is not lonely, there is drama and spring" in this "Daxi YOUNG Gathering". At that time, the performance broadcasting, art education, public interaction and other links will lead the audience to appreciate the transcendence of Shakespeare's opera. The eternal charm of time and place.
Among them, Dominic Dromgull, director of the Chinese version of the stage play "Frankenstein" and former artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, planned a two-year, 197-year-old event on the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth in 2014. World tour of Hamlet in 10 countries. The tour was fraught with challenges, including wars, viruses, and cultural differences, and the experience was later compiled into the book "Take Shakespeare Around the World: Hamlet Globe To Globe" . This "Daxi YOUNG Gathering" invites Dominic Dromgull to direct Skyline to explore how this drama written in the 16th century touched the hearts of people in different countries and regions around the world, and how it influenced and changed the world of drama. .

"Hamlet on the Street" campaign poster

The young director Bai Shangwu and the experimental frantic troupe of "Xiao Young Qing" were invited to bring the contemporary drama "Hamlet on the Street" adapted from the classic text. At that time, the actors will walk along Songjiazhuang Street, Fengtai District, Beijing, while narrating and performing, and work together with Shanghai audiences online and offline to complete this "synchronic walking drama".

Director Chen Xinyi will interpret Shakespeare on live connection

In addition, the live broadcast will connect Director Chen Xinyi to observe the real-time rehearsal process of the happy twist version of "The Merchant of Venice", and chat with Director Chen about Shakespeare and his works.
The Shanghai Grand Theater Art Class will present "Learning Words Like Faces: Verdi and Shakespeare" given by the gold medal lecturer Han Bin, analyzing the composer's musical life and the Shakespeare elements in Verdi's operas. Shakespeare's romantic work "Winter's Tale" tailored for the Royal Ballet by Christopher Wilton, an internationally renowned new generation of choreographers, will be re-broadcasted as one of the repertoires of the Shanghai Grand Theater's "Tour Zero Stop" for a limited time. The play is considered a masterpiece of modern narrative ballet.

Ballet "Winter's Tale"

Dramatists bring unique reading experience to audiences
On the day of "World Book Day", "Daxi YOUNG Gathering" hopes to create a companion reading experience for the audience in the form of drama.
Hong Kong drama, film and television actor Xie Junhao will share an excerpt from the novella "Falling Down" by Liu Yichang, a master of Hong Kong's new literature generation, in Cantonese. The work is full of dramatic tension, showing the interlacing of memories and expectations through the narrative double-line parallel method, which has become the source of inspiration for Wong Kar-wai's film "In the Mood for Love".

Dramatists take you to read "The Moment of Dissent: Justice Ginsburg's 'Crappy Statements'"

Zhu Hongxuan, founder of Peking University's Nine Drama Club, will read excerpts from the biography of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, "The Moment of Dissent", and interact with the audience online. When mentioning the reasons for choosing this book, Zhu Hongxuan said: "If we often feel discouraged in real life, then the difficulties she has faced will only be a hundred times more difficult; if we are worried about our own incompetence, then she has set us a good example. An example of continuous effort: Ginsburg, who can't be taken away by death, fought until she was 87 years old."
Actor Zhai Song from the Chinese version of the musical "The Brothers Karamazov" will bring excerpts from the novel "The Brothers Karamazov" by the literary giant Dostoevsky. The audience who successfully signed up will play roles and complete it together.
Visual artist Ma Liang will also bring excerpts from his biographical collection "Undercover on Earth".

Ma Liang reads the autobiographical novel "Undercover in the World"

In addition, music will also participate in the live broadcast in various ways. Folk musician Xiaohe and independent animator and filmmaker Ma Weijia will launch a twin-city singing concert "Seeing the Mountains and Seas from the Window" at their homes in Beijing and Shanghai. The new generation of musical actor Shi Bowei will bring "from voice to body" voice decompression training, and share the secrets of scientific voice for musical actors. Zhang Qindan, a young musical actor, will bring a home exercise class to experience the fun of home exercise with an aerobic dance exercise that promotes the vitality of the heart and lungs.

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Onishi YOUNG gathering place
"Daxi YOUNG Gathering" is a public cultural and art exchange gathering place focusing on the performing arts industry, initiated by Shanghai Grand Theater, YOUNG Theater, and Shanghai West Bund Grand Theater. The YOUNG Theater in Yangpu, which will open this year, and the Shanghai West Bund Theater in Xuhui Riverside, which will open in 2023, are both operated and managed by the Shanghai Grand Theater.
"Gathering Field", which has the same pronunciation as "theatre", is not limited to the traditional concept of venue, but is intended to create a gathering field for people who love performing arts and stage scene. In the future, "Daxi YOUNG Gathering" will advocate a spontaneous, innovative and integrated art communication life through the planning of online and offline art seasons, and create a performing arts ecosystem that is diverse, inclusive, linked and shared.
Appendix: Contents of the online program of literary group purchase of "Reading is not lonely, there is drama and spring" at the Onishi YOUNG gathering place
1 10:00-10:20 Musical actors take you to the voice of Shi Bowei
2 10:30-11:00 "Hamlet: From Global to Global" Sharing Session by Dominic Dromgur
3 11:15-11:55 The drama will read with you
Selected Readings of "Facing Down" by Liu Yichang (Cantonese) Xie Junhao
4 12:15-13:00 Shanghai Grand Theater Art Class Special Activities
"Letters Like Faces: Verdi and Shakespeare" Han Bin
5 13:15-14:00 Drama and reading with you
Selected Readings of "The Moment of Dissent" & Online Interaction Zhu Hongxuan
6 14:00-15:00 Immersive rehearsal by the crew of the happy twist drama "The Merchant of Venice" Chen Xinyi
7 15:15-15:40 The drama will read with you
Selected Readings from Fragments of Ma Liang's Autobiographical Collection "Undercover in the World" Ma Liang
8 16:10-16:55 "Through the Window to See the Mountains and Seas" Twin Cities Link Singing Concert Xiaohe and Ma Weijia
9 17:00-18:00 Musical actor brings you to move Zhang Qindan
10 18:15-18:55 The drama will read with you
Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" + online interaction Zhai Song
11 19:00-20:50 Tour Station Zero · Ballet "Winter's Tale" The Royal Ballet
12 21:00-22:00 "Hamlet on the Street" by the Experimental Crazy Theater, Bai Shangwu, a synchronic walking theater
*All program content, artists and other information are subject to the live broadcast