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Drama “Red and Black”
June 3, 2022 @ 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
【Creative Team】
Original: Stendhal (French)
Director: Meng Jinghui
Dramatic Composition: Sebastian Kaiser (German)
Stage Design: Zhang Wu
Lighting Design: Wang Qi Clothing / Styling Design: Yu Lei
Music Director: Hua Shan
Composer: Hua Shan, Wang Chuang
Multimedia Design: Chen Xurenren
Video Design: Ma Yue
Sound Engineering: Zhang Xinnan
Assistant Director: Li Huayi
【Cast lineup】
Mai Ting as Madame de Renal
Zhang Yicheng as Julien Sohail
Luo Huan as Mathilde
Lee Ji Ho as the mayor
Yantsov as the Marquis of Larmor
Lu Jing as old Sohail
Guo Bingkun as Varno
Zhang Gongchang as a priest
Chen Yuxin as Stannis/Alta
Liu Shuang as Mrs. Deville
Zhang Yaqian as Alyssa
Live Performance｜EB Virus Band: Hua Shan, Wang Chuang
*The lineup is subject to the scene
ONE01
Powerful actors challenge classics
Mei Ting and Zhang Yiceng lead the “Empty Flower Group” to star in the love of the heart or the love of the mind? The mystery of “Red and Black” is waiting for you to unravel!
Mei Ting is a national first-class actress.
as Madame de Renal
She was starred in dramas “Diary of a Madman”, “Second Farewell”, “I Love Peach Blossom”, “Next to Heaven is a Lunatic Asylum”, “Peach Blossom with Human Face”, “Pirate Faust”, and won the China Tony Award for his drama “I Love Peach Blossom”. The modern drama Gu Yi Drama Awards annual online voting star. He has starred in the TV series “Parents Love”, “Don’t Talk to Strangers”, the movies “Red Lovers” and “Tuina” and many other excellent works.
Mei Ting has always focused on performance and drama, devoted herself to each role, never set limits on herself, and refused to be framed in a streamlined performance routine. In “Red and Black”, Mei Ting plays Madame de Reina, which will be her breakthrough attempt on the stage of drama. In the collision with Meng’s aesthetics and incisive performance, it shows the vivid texture of complex human beings.
“Prince of the Stage” Zhang Yicheng as Julien Sohail
Zhang Yicheng is a contracted actor of Meng Jinghui Drama Studio. Representative works: “Rhino in Love”, “Amber”, “Guns, Lies and Roses”, “First Love”, “Romeo & Juliet”, “The Accidental Death of an Anarchist”, “Murder in the Hanging Gardens”, “Murder in the Hanging Gardens” Don Quixote, “He Has Two Revolvers and Black and White Eyes”, “The Sun and Temples”, “Concert in the Garden of Presumptuous”, etc.
He has starred in many dramas such as “Murder in the Hanging Garden”, “Rhino in Love” and “Amber”. With his free, changeable and tense performance style, he has created a number of characters with different characteristics. Look majestic, look delicate up close” “splashing ink” style acting.
TWO02
Deconstructing “Red and Black” Meng Jinghui challenges Stendhal’s masterpiece
This time, Stendhal’s “Red and Black” meets Meng’s Directive Principles, and it will appear in front of the audience with a brand-new look, a brand-new form, and a brand-new interpretation.
Stendhal (1783-1842) was an outstanding French writer of critical realism in the nineteenth century.
Stendhal’s life was bumpy. He was unknown during his lifetime. He started very late in literature. He only started publishing works in his thirties, and he still had no place in the literary world. After his death, with two or three novels, more precisely, mainly with “Red and Black”, he achieved a position almost on par with Balzac in the history of literature.
He is known for his accurate character psychoanalysis and concise brushwork. He is considered one of the most important and earliest practitioners of realism. In his works, young and charismatic protagonists attract and influence those around them, espousing rational hedonism and daring heroism. The most famous works are “Red and Black” (1830) and “Parma Abbey” (1839).
Director Meng Jinghui is the most influential contemporary theatre director in China.
With his spicy, humorous and critical drama skills, he has repeatedly created drama miracles, created a new look of contemporary drama, and injected vitality into the new situation of diversification of the drama stage. His unique creativity and diverse artistic styles have become a cultural phenomenon worth noting. Since the 1990s, he has created more than 50 works. Meng Jinghui brought “Red and Black” to the theatrical stage with awe and love for classic works. The twists and turns of personal destiny in the long history, the eternal humanity of entangled shouts and free indulgence, the repeated contradictions and entanglement of ideals and reality, are all keenly captured through the magnifying glass of Mengshi Aesthetics, a time-space collision full of tension will inspire the audience Get maximum destiny enlightenment.
Three03 connects time and space with destiny, breaking traditional narrative
Story introduction:
Julien, handsome and intelligent. He was humble but ambitious, sensitive and helpless, and his heart was higher than the sky. Fate made him fall into the love web woven by the mayor’s wife, and let the daughter of the Marquis of Paris surrender herself naked. Self-esteem and inferiority, ambition and temptation, climb and fall. Two women are entangled with him on his ascent, and the uninhibited soul is tortured by this clumsy, crazy and hypocritical love.
Heart love or head love? The colors of red and black unravel the mystery step by step and go to the abyss…
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