NCPA Drama Crows and Sparrows

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About

How can a single spark start a prairie fire?

Seventy-five years ago, Shanghai sees many far-sighted persons, who are from the film industry, gather at Kunlun Pictures. Faced with the old society, which is nearing collapse, they look forward to a new dawn arising. Each filmmaker holds an expectation for a brighte future for China, and like “sparks”, their expectations converge and give birth to the Crows and Sparrows, a classic in Chinese film history.

The Shikumen-style building structure, one with a stony doorframe, serves as a metaphor for social stratification in the film, with characters from all walks of life depicted so vividly. Very small in themselves, they crowd together like “sparks” that ignite a prairie fire, defeating the evil crows and ushering in a brand new life.

In 2024, a year marking the 75^th Anniversary of the Founding of the PRC, we reflect on classics in search of a novel idea for film adaptation. A dual-line narrative approach gets adopted to provide a panoramic view of China and the Chinese people on key historical nodes - times before and after the founding of the People’s Republic of China.

The story unfolds in two dimensions - horizontally and vertically. Horizontally, the original merit is amplified that different social classes are described in a candid manner, with the drama corresponding with Chairman MAO Zedong’s Analysis of the Classes in Chinese Society and all lifelike “sparks” brought together in Shikumen. Vertically, the drama features the true, hard creative process undergone by the filmmakers at that time, enabling the audience to see how the film predecessors pass down the power of the “sparks” and succeed in creating a timeless classic. The modern expression of a classic meets the modern aesthetic standard. With videos blended into a theatrical narration, the drama expands the formal boundary between film montage and stage narrative.

Presenter: National Centre of Performing Arts
Producer: National Centre of Performing Arts
Performed by National Centre of Performing Arts

Executive Presenter: WANG Ning
Chief Producers: LI Zhixiang, LIU Lan, ZHU Jing, WANG Cheng, ZHANG Yao, GUAN Jianbo, MA Rongguo, LI Jin
Artistic Director: XU Xiaozhong
Executive Producer: ZHANG Yao

Adapted from film Crows and Sparrows
Playwrights: HUANG Ying, PENG Zeling
Stage Director: HUANG Ying
Set Designer: ZHANG Kunpeng
Lighting Designer: HAN Dong
Video Projection Designer: HE Sisi
Costume Designer: NING Fangguo
Make-up & Hair Style Designer: LIN Ying
Props Designer: WANG Weijun
Composers: ZHANG Xiao, WANG Zixiao
Sound Designer: ZHAO Lijie
Photograph Coach: AI Yingyue

Cast
Little Announcer/ Mr. XIAO: DONG Wenliang
Mrs. XIAO: YANG Qi
Mr. HUA: GUO Shuojie
Mrs. HUA: XU Zixuan
Old Man KONG: QU Ning
Little Sister: WANG Wenjie
Section Chief HOU: SUN Lishi
YU Xiaoying: DIAO Qianyun
Director/ Doctor/ Common Person in Gold Run: FENG Yang
Playwright/ Caretaker Mr. WEI/ Boy Student A/ Common Person in Gold Run: LANG Yingbo
Photographer/ Teacher A/ Common Person in Gold Run: YAO Yu
Fine Arts/ Teacher B/ Common Person in Gold Run: ZHANG Xuewen
Censor/ Man A under Headmaster/ Gangster B/ Company Employee/ Common Person in Gold Run/ Customer: LI Ganwei
Girl Student/ Female Guest/ Newsboy/ Company Employee/ Common Person in Gold Run/ Female Clerk: ZHANG Qiao
Hatchet Man B/ Man B under Headmaster/ Company Employee/ Common Person in Gold Run: LI Haoyang
Headmaster/ Hatchet Man A/ Gangster A/ Company Employee/ Common Person in Gold Run: MA Qinglong
Production Manager/ Boy Student B/ Common Person in Gold Run: XING Kaicheng
Girl Student: XU Yangling

Synopsis

The drama Crows and Sparrows is the NCPA’s second adaptation of a classic Chinese film following the drama Crossroads. The drama begins with a group of far-sighted personages criticising the current malpractice and discussing on how to write a script at Kunlun Pictures. Gradually, they make up an outline of the story Crows and Sparrows. Before the liberation of Shanghai in the last century, the Shikumen apartment is inhabited by Section Chief HOU of Kuomintang Secret Service and his lover YU Xiaoying who are at the top floor, first floor by Mr. HUA, a teacher and his wife Mrs. HUA, ground floor by Mr. XIAO, a businessman, and his wife, narrow back room by Old Man KONG, the former owner, and staircase by the maidservant, Little Sister. Owing to the unfavourable times, Section Chief HOU decides to run off in a great panic. As for the ownership of the house, the lodgers have their own concerns at first, but after suffering enough from oppression, they come to the end of their endurance and begin to unite in a joint struggle. Strongly typical of what is known as the civil life, Crows and Sparrows has a profound meaning, which is hidden in the depiction of the citizens’ daily life - These lodgers, differing from one another, correspond to different social classes, while the building layout of Shikumen is a metaphor for the relationships between these classes. Skillfully, two storylines, one in the drama and the other out, have been designed for the drama. They unfold in two dimensions - vertically and horizontally. Facing the old society on the point of collapse, the filmmakers, who are full of longing for the dawn, and the vivid characters in their camera lenses, videoed in Shimumen, are “sparks” in the torrent of the times. Crowding together, the sparks turn into a prairie fire, and this is the theme of the adaptation – “Sparks” here represent the filmmakers of Kunlun Pictures, schoolteacher Mr. and Mrs. HUA, Mr. KONG, an old man of letter, and common citizens of Shanghai including those who are involved in the Gold Run or receive grain from the government. Powered by the satire and criticism crafted for the drama Crows and Sparrows, the “sparks” converge into a united force that is already a prairie fire now.

Having launched some films including Spring River Flows East, Eight Thousand Li of Cloud and Moon, etc., Kunlun Pictures, the most important progressive film base in Shanghai, gathers CHEN Baichen, SHEN Fu, ZHAO Dan, WANG Lingu and XU Tao together before liberation in 1949 to write a script, which is then made into a spoof comedy, Crows and Sparrows, by Director ZHENG Junli. The film Crow and Sparrow, as its name suggests, takes advantage of trivia to explain major principles. In this context, the story unfolds with a civil life that people lead in Shikumen, Old Shanghai. An exquisite design, themed integration of family and nation, is used to visualise the true features of people in all stations of life of that time, the Kuomintang’s struggle against downfall and the masses’ cry of despair. The criticism is amazing in terms of both intensity and depth. After the founding of the PRC, the film Crow and Sparrow won the First Prize for Excellent Feature Film by the Ministry of Culture of the PRC.

The stage adaptation is also owed to the original copyright owners including CHEN Hong, ZHAO Zuo, XU Weiguang and ZHAO Dali.

Creative

HUANG YingStage Director

HUANG Ying

HUANG Ying, a first-class director, is a member of the China Theatre Association, a council member of the Beijing Theatre Association and a member of the Beijing Film Association. He holds a master’s degree from the Directing Department of the Central Academy of Drama and a doctor’s degree in drama and film studies from the Beijing Film Academy. Now he is an associate professor and postgraduate tutor at the Directing Department of the Beijing Film Academy.

By 2024, HUANG Ying has written and directed more than fifty dramas. Since his first creation, HUANG Ying has won one honourary title after another such as “New Beijing-Style Theatre Director”, “Asian Director with the Richest Pioneering Spirit”, “Leading Young Chinese Director”, “Chinese Emerging Artist”, etc. He has received awards including the Outstanding Director Award at the National Art Ensemble Performance Season by the Ministry of Culture, financial support for young art creators from the China National Arts Fund, the “Five-One Project” Award by the Central Committee of Communist Youth League of China, the Production Award at the National Art Ensemble Performance Season by the Ministry of Culture, etc. He is a contemporary theatre director with both solid traditional Chinese artistic skills and a broad international vision.

PENG ZelingCo-Playwright

PENG Zeling

PENG Zeling used to be a field scout and criminal policeman for serious cases at the Technical Detachment, Criminal Investigation Corps, Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the Department of Criminal Science and Technology, People’s Public Security University of China, and a Master’s Degree in feature film creation from the Directing Department of the Beijing Film Academy.

As a screenwriter, her film Piercing to the Bone received financial support for film creation from the Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon International Film Festival, from FIRST and from the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival, and was selected for the Aranya Waves Film Festival Annual Support Programme for Young Directors.

As a screenwriter, her short film Nobody won the Best Screenwriter Award in the “Dream Building in Beijing” Short Film Creation Competition by the Beijing Film Association, and the Best Screenwriter Award at the Ningbo Micro-film Festival.

ZHANG KunpengSet Designer

ZHANG Kunpeng

As a young set designer, ZHANG Kunpeng currently works at the NCPA. He graduated from the Central Academy of Drama majoring in art design of drama with a Master's Degree. His works won the Gold Award for Set Design in National Drama Culture Award and “Best International Musical Award” in the Daegu International Musical Festival.

He is a set designer for the NCPA productions Giannni Schicchi, Crossroads, The Birds, The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other representative works include stage dramas Twenty-Nine, Corn Field, The Cat Who Wanted to Become a Man (Chinese Version), Xiaobei’s Bookcase, Two Ants on the Road, and Fu Shou Quan; Beijing-style dramas Peking Opera ･ Insight, Leading Artist; Peking Opera work Painting of the Ugly Five and Pretty Four; musical commissions Painted Skin, The Romance of West Chamber, etc.

YU Dongjiangas DONG Jianchang

YU Dongjiang

YU Dongjiang is a national first-class actor at the Nanjing Drama Troupe. Having worked as an artist for more than 30 years, he has won prizes and honourary titles including the 11^th Wenhua Award for Performance, the Best Actress Award at the 17^th Shanghai Magnolia Award for Theatrical Performance, the Excellent Performance Award by the Ministry of Culture, the Fifth Golden Lion Award for Drama, the Performance Award at the Tenth China Art Festival, the Wenhua Award for Performance by Jiangsu Province, the Seventh Nanjing Municipal Award for Outstanding Contribution to Literature and Art, and Model Worker of Nanjing. His representative works include dramas A Household by the Qinhuai River, Fall, Maple Grove, The Rain Flower Terrace, etc.; TV dramas Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, A Deadly Secret, State Cadres, Red Sorghum, etc.; films Unusual Love, Wild Strawberries, City of Trance, HE Ergou’s List, Sweet Sixteen, etc.

HE SisiVideo Projection Designer

HE Sisi

HE Sisi is a senior film editor, holding a bachelor’s degree in directing from the Beijing Film Academy.

As a video projection designer, HE Sisi’s representative works include dramas Happiness and Longevity, Dreamwalker, Time for Meal!, Half a Lifetime of Mine, Bell and Drum Tower, Confucius—What Are We Talking About When Talking About Confucius?, etc.

As a film editor, HE Sisi’s representative works include films The Master, The Hidden Sword, Boy on Horseback, A Busy Night, Poetic Weary World, etc.

NING FangguoCostume Designer

NING Fangguo

NING Fangguo is a costume designer at the NCPA Stage Art Design Centre, an external teacher at the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, and a second-class colour coordinator.

NING Fangguo has won awards including the Silver Award and Best Market Value Award in the International Youth for Clothing Design Competition, the “FIRS Cup” Top Ten Newcomers Award, the Originality Award for Most Marketable Work in the Mingpai International Women’s Wear Design Competition, etc. She has designed costumes for major national events such as the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games, the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics, the “Belt and Road” Forum for International Cooperation, etc.

NING Fangguo’s representative stage designs include musical drama The Beautiful Blue Danube—The Story of Johann Strauss’ 1872 US Tour, dramas Half a Lifetime of Mine, Crossroads, Look West to Chang’an, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Two Knives and Social Image, children’s opera Fisherman and Goldfish, musical Eternal Monument, CCTV Concert Glory Blossoms, Theatrical Performances for celebrating the 30^th Anniversary of the Founding of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, etc. Her representative film and TV designs include TV series The Fifth Secret Service, etc. NING Fangguo’s representative writings include Colour Matching in Clothing, a ministerial-level postgraduate textbook for Regular Higher Education during the “13^th Five-Year” Plan.

LIN YingMake-up Designer

LIN Ying

LIN Ying works at the NCPA. She graduated from the Central Academy of Drama with a master’s degree in character design. She is a member of the Makeup Professional Committee of the China Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. She won the New Talent Award for Makeup Design at the 2018 iSTAN International Theatre Costume and Makeup Design Competition and was a winner at the 12^th China Film and Television Makeup Awards in 2018. Her representative works include the NCPA Children’s opera commissions Effendi and The Fisherman and the Goldfish, dramas Look West to Chang’an, The Birds, Seeking for the Most Beautiful Voice: An Opera Concert for Children, CCTV’s Glorious Bloom, the Central Academy of Drama’s drama The Heavy Snow, dance dramas Zhaoxi, Two Cities, Dance of Emptiness, WAIT – The Maid, HI – Miss Julie, GO – The Three Sisters, Xia Xie Bo Wa: Awakening, White and Buddhist, Offering a Dance, Barbie Live!, musical Flying Fish at the tenth Liaoning Arts Festival, and the large-scale performance Ode to Hanzhong in Shaanxi Province. She has co-edited the books Behind the Scenes and on the Front Stage: NCPA Stage Art Exhibition, 2017 Activity Collection of Beijing Colleges and Universities Character Design Teaching Union and New Campus.

WANG WeijunProps Designer

WANG Weijun

WANG Weijun is a staff member of the NCPA, holding a degree in arts management from the Central Conservatory of Music. He has designed stage props for more than 80 theatrical works produced by the NCPA, including operas, dramas, dance dramas and musicals.

WANG Weijun has designed stage props for the NCPA productions including LIN Zexu, A Village Teacher (New Version), Tosca, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Effendi & His Double, etc. He works as the props coordinator in the operas Der Ring Des Nibelungen: Das Rheingold and Roméo et Juliette, dramas The Crossroad and Returning Home on a Snowy Night, etc. His representative works include A Millennium Promise, a theatrical performance held at the “Belt and Road” Forum for International Cooperation, I Grow Up with My Motherland—For the International Children’s Day of 2019, and self-produced plays Turandot, Der Fliegende Holländer, Snow White, You and Me, The Long March, Minning Town, The Wild Rhododendron, etc.

ZHANG XiaoComposer

ZHANG Xiao

ZHANG Xiao is a teacher of acting at the Department of Musical Theatre, Central Academy of Drama, holding a bachelor’s degree in acting from the Central Academy of Drama and a master’s degree in musical from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee.

His representative works include dramas To Be Continued, Journey to the West, Guidebook to Love, Unfold the Year of 1990, etc., musical commission Crazy KTV, and musicals Lucky Stiff, Fame, The Vision, Home, etc.

ZHANG Xiao has composed music for dramas Unfold the Year of 1990, Dim Sum, Crossroads, etc.

WANG ZixiaoComposer

WANG Zixiao

WANG Zixiao is a registered music therapist and independent musician, holding a degree in music therapy from the Berklee College of Music and in piano performance from the Eastman School of Music. WANG Zixiao was a music therapist at the Peking University Tumour Hospital and a teacher at the Music Group/Children Group of the LIU Tianchi Performance Workshop. Now she teaches children theatre at a school in Beijing.

Her musical compositions include dramas Crossroads, Dim Sum, Confucius—What Are We Talking About When Talking About Confucius?, etc.

ZHAO LijieSound Designer & Music Producer

ZHAO Lijie

ZHAO Lijie is a musician, sound designer and composer, holding a degree in sound recording from the Beijing Film Academy.

ZHAO Lijie has made sound designs for dramas Time for Meal!, Unfold the Year of 1990, Happiness and Longevity, Half a Lifetime of Mine, Dim Sum, Confucius—What Are We Talking About When Talking About Confucius?, Mixed, Zheluo or Salad, Silk Archery Robe With Cut Designs, etc., and children’s dramas Alley Cat King of the Stadium, MI Xiaoquan from the Future, Let’s go to the Great Forest, Gourmet Adventure, etc.

ZHAO Lijie has composed music for film Overall Planning, the theme song of the 2016 AcFun Spring Festival Gala, the Final Song of the animated cartoon Neko Album, the theme song of cartoon Go Brother Season V, etc.

AI YingyueDirector of Photography

AI Yingyue

AI Yingyue holds a bachelor’s degree from the School of Educational Technology, Beijing Normal University, and a master’s degree in photography from the Beijing Film Academy.

As a director of photography, AI Yingyue’s representative works include theatrical films Meeting on in a Narrow “Box” and Book of Supernatural Stories, Internet dramas Link Click and Strategy for Cannon Fodders, documentary films Searching for Mount Sanshen, Nepal, Kyoto, Fine Art of Tokyo, The Power of Agriculture, etc.

AI Yingyue’s representative dramas include Director HUANG Ying’s works Luzhu, The Jujube Tree, When Love Blossoms, Dreamwalker, Chinese Class, Unfold the Year of 1990, Time for Meal! and Bell and Drum Tower, and musical Crazy KTV, etc.

As a director, AI Yingyue’s representative works include Internet drama The Lie Detective, and documentary films Searching for Mount Sanshen, Cycling along the Sichuan-Tibet Highway, Youth—ZHANG Yuning, etc. AI Yingyue has participated in directing dramas Overcome by Feelings and Chinese Class.

Artist

DONG Wenliang as Little Announcer/ Mr. XIAO
DONG Wenliang is a member of the NCPA Drama Ensemble.

DONG Wenliang is a national second-class actor, an honourary artist of the NCPA and member of the Chinese Theatre Association. He heads the bill as Mr. ZHAO in the NCPA drama Crossroads and as LEI Tingchang in the NCPA drama The LEI Family, the Royal Architects. He also stars in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, Returning Home on a Snowy Night, Hamlet, etc.

His works have been awarded with the National Excellent Little-Theatre Drama Award, the Nomination for the National Project to the Distillation of the Stage Art, the Best Theatre Award at the Australia-Asia Art Awards, etc. His name appeared on the List of Influential Actors for the 40^th Anniversary of Contemporary Chinese Multi-fuctional Theatre Drama. DONG Wenliang has attended numerous theatre festivals and creative programmes held in France, the UK, Germany, Singapore, Australia, South Korea, Japan, etc.

DONG Wenliang has performed in more than 50 stage plays including dramas A Pipe Dream, When Love Blossoms and Bell and Drum Towers, musicals CHO CHO and Break Prison Under Order, traditional Chinese operas Son of Heaven and Tears of Concubine ZHEN, etc. As a director, his representative works include the dramas Love Song of Mount Taihang, We Are Together and Journey to the West, opera Red Bellyband, etc.

YANG Qi as Mrs. XIAO
YANG Qi is a member of the NCPA Drama Ensemble. She is a graduate of the Acting Department of the Beijing Film Academy. She stars as Quince/Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Gertrude in Hamlet, Goneril in King Lear, Empress Dowager Cixi in The Lei Family, the Royal Architects, and Mrs. Fairfax in Jane Eyre. She also plays a part in the NCPA drama The Tempest, etc. Her representative drama works include the Sino-British drama A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and dramas The Sword and The Yellow Storm. Her representative film and TV works include TV series Legend of Concubine Zhen Huan, Chinese Wine-making at the Chishui River, The Chinese Old Peasant, Family Honour, Detective YANG Jinbang, The Spies, Take Time to Fall in Love After Work, Expedition, The Sky of Women, The Great Porcelain Merchant, and Man Hunt.

GUO Shuojie as Mr. HUA
GUO Shuojie is a member of the NCPA Drama Ensemble. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Acting, Central Academy of Drama.

GUO Shuojie stars as Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, LIN Gongshu in LIN Zexu, JING Youzhong in Look West to Chang’an, CHEN Xiang in Returning Home on a Snowy Night, Benedetto in The Count of Monte Cristo, etc. He also plays a part in other dramas including The Merchant of Venice, King Lear, The Tempest, Jane Eyre, The LEI Family, the Royal Architects, The Birds, Reason, etc. He portrays Officer ZHANG in The Red Guards on Honghu Lake. His representative film and TV works include Everybody Knows I Love You, etc.

XU Zixuan as Mrs. HUA
XU Zixuan is a member of the NCPA Drama Ensemble.

She plays a part in the NCPA dramas A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Look West to Chang’an, The Tempest, etc. XU Zixuan is a graduate of the Acting Department of the Beijing Film Academy. She has acted in stage plays including To Be Continued (Chinese), When SIMA Ta Meets HAN Han, In Search of the Supernatural: Peach Blossom Girl Breaks Spell and Marries Duke Zhou, The Mousetrap, Murder on Dante Street, Forgetting Hometown, The Patient, Mourning Becomes Electra, etc.

QU Ning as Old Man KONG
QU Ning is a Chinese actor, holding a degree from the Central Academy of Drama.

His representative dramas include Beijing Fayuan Temple (as Pujing), The Dreamer (as Adjutant CHENG), February (TAO Mukan), Radio Wave by Shichahai (as WANG Wen), Red Eagle (as FANG Cheng), etc.

His representative musicals include Song of Light & Shadow (as Yingsheng), The Age of Awakening (as CHEN Duxiu), Real and Dreamy (as HAO Jie), etc.

WANG Wenjie as Little Sister
WANG Wenjie is a member of the NCPA Drama Ensemble. She stars in the NCPA dramas Hamlet (as Ophelia / SONG Qingru), King Lear (as Cordelia), The Merchant of Venice (as Nerissa), and The Lei Family, the Royal Architects (as Guizhi). She also plays a part in the NCPA dramas A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Jane Eyre, A Doll’s House, The Crossroad, etc. WANG Wenjie holds a degree in musical performance from the Beijing Dance Academy. She plays a role in the Chinese version of musicals Rent and Spring Awakening, musical commission Tomorrow Will Be Better, and physical theatre The Rite of Spring.

SUN Lishi as Section Chief HOU
SUN Lishi is a member of the NCPA Drama Ensemble.

SUN Lishi plays Helmer in the NCPA drama A Doll’s House, Claudius in the NCPA drama Hamlet, Shylock in the NCPA drama The Merchant of Venice, Prosecutor Villefort in the NCPA drama The Count of Monte Cristo, Mycroft Holmes in Suspect Sherlock Holmes, GUAN Tianpei in LIN Zexu, LI Rongsheng in Returning Home on a Snowy Night, etc. He plays a role in film and TV works including Da Lang Tao Sha (LI Dazhao), Sun Yat-sen (LI Dazhao), Enlighten Your Life (ZHANG Guanghu), and Whirlwind Girl (JIN Yishan). SUN Lishi holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the Acting Department of the Central Academy of Drama and a Master’s Degree in Arts from Capital Normal University. Some works starring him have won the “Five-One Project” Award by the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee and the Excellent TV Drama Award at the China TV “Peony Awards”. He has served as a teacher for many years and awarded the Beijing Education Gardening Award for Outstanding Teacher.

DIAO Qianyun as YU Xiaoying
DIAO Qianyun was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy in 2019 for a bachelor’s degree in acting.

Her representative works include Snow Over That Mountain (as Little Shepherd), Peking Man (as ZENG Siyi), Departure (as Elma), Parallel World (as SHAO Zixuan), King Lear (as Kent), and drama commission The Golden Boy (as WENG Xiuyong). She plays a spider web in the NCPA’s production of Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Forest Theatre).

FENG Yang as Director/ Doctor/ Common Person in Gold Run

LANG Yingbo as Playwright/ Caretaker Mr. WEI/ Boy Student A/ Common Person in Gold Run

XING Kaicheng as Production Manager/ Boy Student B/ Common Person in Gold Run

YAO Yu as Photographer/ Teacher A/ Common Person in Gold Run

ZHANG Xuewen as Fine Arts/ Teacher B/ Common Person in Gold Run

ZHANG Qiao as Girl Student/ Female Guest/ Newsboy/ Company Employee/ Common Person in Gold Run/ Female Clerk

MA Qinglong as Headmaster/ Hatchet Man A/ Gangster A/ Company Employee/ Common Person in Gold Run

LI Ganwei as Censor/ Man A under Headmaster/ Gangster B/ Company Employee/ Common Person in Gold Run/ Customer

LI Haoyang as Hatchet Man B/ Man B under Headmaster/ Company Employee/ Common Person in Gold Run

XU Yangling as Girl Student/ Common Person in Gold Run

ZHANG Ziyan as Damao

HAN Zixuan as Ermao

HE Qingxuan as Weiwei

Presenter

NCPA Drama Ensemble
NCPA Drama Ensemble was established on July 28^th, 2016 and the Chairman of China Theatre Association, renowned Chinese actor PU Cunxin was invited to be the Artistic Director. It is another resident performance troupe following the China NCPA Chorus, the China NCPA Orchestra, and the NCPA Octet. Adhering to NCPA's principle of “for the people, for art, for the world”, the NCPA Drama Ensemble will focus on rehearsing dramas, participating in other NCPA productions and joining cultural exchange activities such as performing at grass-root units and campus. NCPA Drama Ensemble has taken part in several NCPA productions, including The LEI Family,the Royal Architects, Returning Home on a Snowy Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Jane Eyre, Hamlet, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, Look West to Chang'an, etc., and the Ensemble is to present more exciting works in the future.
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