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<strong>北京大学</strong>英语新闻网/<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />

Musical ―A Midsummer Night's<br />

Dream‖ On Stage This Month<br />

<strong>PKU</strong> NEWS 2008--10—10<br />

http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=223818599<br />

<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong>, Beijing, Oct 10, 2008: A Midsummer Night's Dream, one <strong>of</strong> the<br />

many fantastic performances <strong>of</strong> "Aesthetics Taking a Walk Cultural Salon", which<br />

was jointly organized by the <strong>PKU</strong> Institute for Cultural Industries and Tianjin People's<br />

Art Theatre, will be stage in the <strong>PKU</strong> Centennial Commemorative Hall in the evening<br />

<strong>of</strong> October 28th and 29th.<br />

William Shakespeare, known as "the father <strong>of</strong> <strong>English</strong> drama", is significant to the<br />

Renaissance and modern history. His work ―A Midsummer Night's Dream‖ is a<br />

fantasia that contains a witty mixture <strong>of</strong> romance, fairy magic, and comic low-life<br />

scenes. The intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start when<br />

the two couples in love with the wrong partners, but luckily they are finally brought<br />

together rightly. ―A Midsummer Night's Dream‖, among Shakespeare's 37 surviving<br />

plays, has been hailed as a timeless masterpiece.<br />

Tianjin is home to the Chinese stage play. The dramatist master Cao Yu and ―Drama<br />

King‖ Shi Hui who enjoy a reputation at home and abroad both came from Tianjin.<br />

Tianjin People's Art Theatre has a history <strong>of</strong> more than 50 years, whose<br />

representative productions include ―Thunderstorm‖, Guoguo Si Ye and Wang Tian<br />

Hou.<br />

The theatre has put on more than 270 plays since its foundation, with a group <strong>of</strong><br />

excellent young actors appearing - Actors like Chen Daoming and Bao Guo'an have<br />

won awards both in China and the world.<br />

This time the stage play has a strong cast. The national "Wen Hua Award", "Golden<br />

Lion Award" and "Cao Yu Drama Award" winner Wang Lei is the director. Working<br />

with him is the sound effect expert Hu Zhongming who once teamed up with Yang<br />

Liping in ―The Impression <strong>of</strong> Yunnan‖ and The Secret <strong>of</strong> Tibet, and a choreographer<br />

invited from the top performing troupes and players who are the winners <strong>of</strong> different<br />

performance competitions.<br />

Felix Mendelssohn composed an overture inspired by the play in 1826, intended for<br />

concert performance. This piece <strong>of</strong> incidental music became a classic as a<br />

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