Peking Opera Performs SIX CHAPTERS OF A FLOATING LIFE

The Peking Opera will perform SIX CHAPTERS OF A FLOATING LIFE by Shen Fu (Qing Dynasty) at the Multi-functional Theatre on March 6-8, 2010.

Dates: Mar. 06-08, 2010?19:30
Price: 300 200 120 RMB

From the theatre's website: The concept of "Little Theatre Peking Opera" originates from Peking Opera House of Beijing. The naissance of Little Theatre Peking Opera, full of modernism and innovations, has brought significant results in the revitalization and pioneering of Peking Opera, attracted flocks of young audience, especially university students to go to such theatres, and blazed a new trail for the inheritance and development of the art of Peking Opera.

Six Chapters of a Floating Life is one of the little theatre Peking Opera highlights at Peking Opera House of Beijing. Emphasizing the comedy elements of the opera, it presents a love story of romantic, emotional, sentimental, implicit, naive and devoted feelings.

Although the opera depicts the love story between Shen Fu and Yun Niang, who lived in the Emperor Jiaqing's reign of the Qing Dynasty, their marriage characterized by domestic and romantic joys, naturalness, naivety, and harmony touches the heart of today's spectators and makes the audience feel the same way as they experienced and are in sympathy with their feelings. With play within a play, the opera elaborates on what marriage is to the audience. It shows to the audience that marriage depends on love, which relies on perseverance, respect and simplicity. Although Shen Fu and Yun Niang led a simple and hard life, struggling to make a decent living, they found joy amid hardship, and created a pure land of tranquility and harmony against a social environment filled with material desires, vanity and dissipation. Marriage should be like theirs.

The opera is sadly moving and aesthetic. And interaction is possible in the little theatre. A shared relaxing atmosphere is also one of the key and expected features of the play.

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