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The silent piano, closed suitcase...under the spotlight, Jane Eyre, in a long grey skirt, bursts into the still life-like stage. In the misty fog, standing outside the Thornfield manor gate, Jane Eyre unintentionally starts the fate engine of the people in this old manor.
In June 2009, Jane Eyre pioneered by NCPA was staged for the first time, and this was also the first interpretation of Charlotte Bronte's classical novel of the same name on the stage of drama in China. Wang Xiaoying and Yu Rongjun served as the director and the writer respectively. With undiluted poetic language and excellent stage effect, thousands of audiences were immersed into the amazing 160-minute play, and quickly identified with the characters of the play.
His major drama works include: Last Winter, WWW.COM, Next Door to Paradise Is a Lunatic Asylum, Salty Cappuccino, Behind the Lies, Perfume, Midnight in Havana, Like a Dog, Active Carbon, Winter of Two Cities, Drift, Appeal to Heaven, Tremor, Bliss in Mind, Capital Theory, Embarrassed and The Boss. His translation works: The Vagina Monologues and adapted works: Love Like a Fallen City, A Dream of Red Mansions, music drama Street Angel, translated and adapted drama Jane Eyre, Lolita, 1977, Steel Piano, Massage, musical I Love You and the musical drama John Strauss 1872, ballet Jane Eyre. His traditional drama works include: Red House Mirror (Yueju opera), Sighing (Sichuan opera). TV series musical Hand-in-Hand in Life and radio musical Chasing Fugitive for 1000 Miles Among them, Last Winter, WWW.COM, Love Like a Fallen City, Next Door to Paradise Is a Lunatic Asylum, Salty Cappuccino, Behind the Lies, Appeal to Heaven, Tremor, Perfume and Capital Theory have been translated into English, Japanese, Turkish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Finnish, Swedish, Bosnian, Hebrew and other languages abroad and played by more than a dozen troupes. More than 10 works were invited to participate in international drama festivals. Over twenty works were published, including: Selected Works of Nick Yu - Next Door to Paradise Is a Lunatic Asylum, Nick Yu's Plays (Turkish), Capital Theory - Nick Yu's Selected Drama Works (I) and Bliss in Mind - Nick Yu’s Selected Drama Works (II).
A national first-grade director, with a PhD degree of drama in stage direction, vice president of National Theatre Company of China and vice president of Chinese Dramatist Association, one of the first of 'the Talents of the Four Ones Project'; awarded the State Council special allowance. He gained the titles of 'Excellent Drama Workers' and 'Outstanding Directors of the New Century' awarded by the Ministry of Culture of P. R. C, and won many kinds of prizes such as 'the National Culture Projects' for excellent director, 'Gold Lion Award' for excellent director, 'Cao Yu Prize' for excellent director and excellent critic, prize for excellent director in Chinese Opera Festival, prize for China Small Theatre Opera Festival, Chinese Literary Criticism Award and Five One Project Prize.
During study at the Central Academy of Drama, Yuan Quan won the Golden Rooster Award and Best Actress Award at the University Student Film Festival with roles in Spring Rhapsody, Blue Love and Shanghai Chronicle. Since then, she had her frequent appearance on the drama stage, the media dubbed her as the “Drama Princess”. With the brilliant performances and elegance in the plays including Amber, Movie Song, The Peach Blossom Land and others, she left the media with a deep impression and was named by the media and the public as "the most cultured Chinese actress for half a century".
Wang Luoyong, tried eight times for the hero of Miss Saigon, a Broadway hit. He was the first Chinese to play as a hero on the Broadway stage. Thousands of stage performances made him the actor that played as a hero for the longest time in Broadway. After returning home, he worked as an actor, director and writer in crossover fields of stage drama and movie. He was recognized by audience and award judges for his outstanding performance in Life and Death by an Undercover, Empty House, Chinese Peacekeeping Police Officers, Ultimate Storm, Urgent and so on.
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Dedicated to the staging of epic operas, ballets and dance dramas, the golden Opera House is considered the centerpiece of the NCPA. Its main tone is golden color, which looks glamorous and splendid. In the auditorium are the stalls and three higher levels of balconies, which can seat an audience of 2,207, including the venue of SRO. It is equipped with a modern stage that can be moved up/down/backward/forward or rotated, a ballet stage that can slant, and a rising orchestra pit for the triple winds orchestra. All the cutting-edge staging mechanism provides artists with enormous possibilities of creative performance.