EighthDay Theatre Club, Northwestern’s only Chinese theatre club, debuted an original play called “The Butterfly Lovers” this weekend. The show, the second since the club’s founding, took place Friday and Saturday in the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts and was inspired by Chinese folklore. The play is split into two parts,.
The story of Mu Lan stretches back to sixth-century ancient China and has been told countless times since then, most notably in Disney’s 1998 animated movie “Mulan.” Imagine U’s “The Ballad of Mu Lan” began its performances Thursday in the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts and will run through March 6, which.
Communication junior Jonyca Jiao saw a gap in inclusivity across Northwestern’s theatre department. So this year, she decided to fill it. “I don’t see a lot of Chinese or East Asian stories represented on Northwestern’s campus, so this can be our first step to bring something we are proud of, a part of our culture.
Communication junior Jonyca Jiao saw a gap in inclusivity across Northwestern’s theatre department. So this year, she decided to fill it. “I don’t see a lot of Chinese or East Asian stories represented on Northwestern’s campus, so this can be our first step to bring something we are proud of, a part of our culture.
Northwestern theatre students in post-pandemic China are engaging in in-person production, an opportunity that is yet to be realistic for their peers in the States.
Due to the travel ban between China and the U.S., most Chinese international students chose to continue remote learning this quarter at home.
For Communication sophomore Joyce Pu, life in Shanghai’s theatre scene has returned to a new normal. Pu partook in three in-person productions over the winter break for the Youge Theater Group, Shanghai’s creative hub for aspiring young playwrights to experiment with untested scripts.
Unlike a typical theatre production, where stage movement plays a crucial role in audience interactions, Youge’s New Play Reading Series focused on the script itself, Pu said. Instead of physically interacting with fellow actors, Pu said she expressed the character’s emotional rawness while staying still on stage.