Monday, July 25, 2011

Musical "time pawn shop" about "9.11" after the North American Chinese

China news agency, Beijing, July 22 (Reporter Ying Ni) - Although the performance is also significantly Sentimental, singing is nascent, "time pawn shop" which was born out of Stanford University campus, a group of students from the common interpretation of the musical or in the 22 On the evening of the Century Theater harvest thunderous applause.

Background story is a "9.11" lost son of the Asian family. Begins from the mother's singing in his home lake, son of Abraham battlefield in Afghanistan where the corresponding emergence of the same period in two different scenarios, time, events, activities of the human heart in the same time. Two parallel lines intertwined West dropped out of school because of her daughter, she insisted on going to New York looking for the "9.11" terrorist attacks killed a large Gekai, family conflict, phone calls Abraham, the intersection of two scenes on the stage, while the show the audience: one side is her mother sent West to the train station to New York; side is being Abraham patrolling villages in Afghanistan, the bombing is about to begin, he used his own life to save the lives of Afghan children.

In the fall the moment the missile, with a surrealistic screenplay writing style space-time called a time dummy pawn shop, so mother and son meet in this space. Years rotation, time to reproduce, the audience was brought back to the middle piece of history, have begun to re-examine human nature, and torture the soul, re-define the terror and war, the quest for dignity and value. The real story begins here.

Its creator is in English literature at Stanford University students in fourth grade Cao Zen, only 22 years old, she set screenwriter, lyricist, composer, director in one, and led a group of youthful, all departments at Stanford University, co-ethnic students interpretation of the debate about love, about human nature, reflect the soul of drama.

Cao Zen said, "time pawn shop," expressed the mood is diverse, and the search is conducted to explore multiple perspectives, but no matter what form, what kind of sound, are conveyed to the crowd with a theme, that is life is precious, humanity strong.

Drama, singing in Chinese mother's "sleep" in the entire show in English is particularly tender, causing the Chinese audience sympathy, applause spontaneously into the sky.

Before coming to Beijing, "time pawn shop" staged three games in Chengdu, Cao Zen said such an arrangement from his own feeling of Sichuan, after she went to the Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan had been a volunteer, she was on the dark face of Mourning again determined back here, to pass those passing dream of life.

March 11, the "time pawn shop," won the fifth Daegu International Musical Festival Best Original Award. Even played in three games here after performing the play will also go to Vancouver, Canada, and New York in mid-August to participate in the international experimental theater festival. Complete

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