Seven decades take center stage By Cheng Yuezhu | China Daily | Updated: 2021-01-20 07:40 Share CLOSE Costumes, ornaments and stage props of traditional Chinese operas are on display at the National Museum of China in Beijing. The ongoing exhibition is part of the National Academy of Chinese Theater Arts 70th-anniversary celebrations. [Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily]
An exhibition highlights the National Academy of Chinese Theater Arts role in promoting Chinese operas, Cheng Yuezhu reports.
The National Academy of Chinese Theater Arts is celebrating its 70th anniversary with a new exhibition at the National Museum of China in Beijing.
Upon entering the exhibition hall, visitors are transported on a seven-decade journey in which Chinese operas are highlighted. The history of the school itself is a record of New China s traditional-art education since its founding in 1949.
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At the end of a rollicking production of William Shakespeare’s
A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Tim Robbins and staged in China in June by the Los Angeles-based Actors’ Gang the director and actors returned to the stage for a dialogue with the Beijing audience.
The questions ran the normal gamut from accents to costumes to staging, and then one woman asked which Shakespeare the Gang planned to perform next. The affable Robbins turned the question around, asking what she would like to see.
“Macbeth,” came the answer.
Oberon (played by Pierre Adeli) in a performace of
A Midsummer Night s Dream, at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, June 10, 2014.