Uzhen Drama Festival 2023 will be held from October 19th to October 29th.
On April 25, the organizing committee of Wuzhen Drama Festival released the propositions and rules for the youth competition of the 10th Wuzhen Drama Festival 2023, and officially opened the registration channel for the youth competition and the ancient town carnival.
The venue: Wuzhen, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province.
Theme: "Rise" (Leap up, rise up, take off with the wind and move towards a new journey).
Artistic members: Zhou Xun, Hu Ge, Yao Renxi, Travis Preston (Travis Preston). Preston, Yue Minjun, Huang Bo and Hao Lei.
Jurors: Lai Shengchuan, Huang Lei, He Gui, Zhou Liming, Cheng Er, Yang Ting, Li Bo, Wu Pi, Situ Jiayi.
From now until August 20, 2023, participants can log on to the official website of the Wuzhen Theatre Festival to register. The preliminary jury of the Wuzhen Theatre Festival will make a preliminary selection based on the results of the online registration, and on September 24, 2023, it will announce the list of the 18 works that have been successfully shortlisted.
After that, all the shortlisted works will participate in two to three public performances during the festival for the preliminary rounds, after which 6-8 plays will enter the final rounds, and the final jury will evaluate the corresponding award-winning works.
The above content was compiled from the official website of the Wuzhen Theater Festival, Interface News, Jiaxing Local Treasure, and so on.
Wuzhen Drama Festival:
In Wuzhen, you can meet beautiful happenings anytime, anywhere. Ancient Town Carnival as Wuzhen Theater Festival a unique humanistic landscape, ten days, hundreds of performing groups, more than two thousand ancient town carnival performances.
Including improvisational comedy, opera, installation art, multimedia, traditional dance drama, puppet theater, digital performance, juggling magic, physical theater, experimental poetry, music and dance sketches and other forms of performances were staged in turn, filling more than thirty outdoor performance spaces in the West Gate of Wuzhen, and building bridges between the audience and the arts on the stone bridges, wharves, lanes, plazas, squares, marketplaces, sculling boats, and even between the water and the sky.
Open and inclusive performance style, diversified fusion of artistic concepts, as well as from all over the country Tibetan opera, Kunqu, Nuo opera, puppetry, Sichuan opera, Gan opera, one-bamboo rafting and other non-heritage programs made a strong debut.
Over the past ten years, tens of millions of audiences at home and abroad have come to experience the immersive atmosphere of the ancient town carnival. This year's Wuzhen Drama Festival welcomes even richer and more diverse artistic performances, blossoming and prospering on every stage beyond the theater.