A play festival featuring the literary world on stage – a special performance for the Banmu Fangtang reading season – was staged in Taixing city, in East China's Jiangsu province – on the evening of April 20.
It brought literary masterpieces to the stage, leading the audience to really feel what great literature is all about while enjoying a play.
An audience of more than 1,000 took in the performances on site, while nearly 30,000 viewers watched online.
The event kicked off with the classic work Thunderstorm, written by Chinese playwright Cao Yu (1910-96). Set in China in the 1930s, it's hailed as a milestone work in the maturity of modern Chinese drama.
That was followed by renditions of excerpts from a play Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) and Luotuo Xiangzi or Rickshaw Boy – allowing audiences to appreciate literature in on-stage performances.
Another work called Three-yuan national currency, a comedy created by Taixing playwright Ding Xilin, describes the fierce confrontation between college student tenants and landlady wives over a vase incident, through condensed artistic techniques and sharp and sophisticated satirical language.
A scene takes place from the classic work Thunderstorm, written by Chinese playwright Cao Yu (1910-96). [Photo/WeChat account: txswmb2014]