24 Hours in the Life of a Woman – Performance seating plan is as follows: This is a story of confusion and determination; a tale of beautiful impulses and romantic moments. Amidst a train station, under a clock tower, in the pouring rain, an elegant woman and a young man with slender hands—what will their passion within 24 hours achieve? Will it fulfill the longing for love, disturb the tranquility of their thoughts, or perhaps earn the favor of fate? Meng Jinghui adapts Zweig’s homonymous work once again, with Huang Xiali challenging the new spaces of contemporary theater. She will once more lead the audience deep into the enigmatic emotional world of a woman…
Principal Creators Original Author: Stefan Zweig (Austria) Director: Meng Jinghui Actor: Huang Xiali Costume Design: Yu Lei Music Director: Huashan Composer: Huashan, Wang Chuang Lighting Design: Chen Nan Multimedia Design: Chen Xu Ren Ren Director Assistant: Li Hua Yi Stage Manager: Yu Lei Stage Manager Assistant: Jia Yu Ying Stage Technology: Zhang Ming Shuai, Zhang Jian Lighting: Wang Yu Hao Sound: Yu Fei Multimedia: Li Zhen Yu Costume: Li Ying Xin Makeup: Luo Yuan Production: Zhang Qi Principal Personnel: Director Meng Jinghui Meng Jinghui is an extremely influential drama director in the Chinese theater scene. With his sharp, humorous, and critical theatrical skills, he has repeatedly created miracles in the theater, opening up a new face of contemporary drama and injecting new vitality into the diversified situation of the theatrical stage. His unique creativity and diverse artistic style have become a noteworthy cultural phenomenon. Since the 1990s, he has created over 50 works, each of which has caused a strong response.
Actor Huang Xiali Huang Xiali, an actor at Meng Jinghui’s Drama Studio and a young artist, has representative stage works such as Meng Jinghui’s directing of ‘Rhinoceros in Love,’ ‘Letter from an Unknown Woman,’ ‘Hello, Sorrow,’ ‘Nine and a Half Love,’ ‘Fox Angel,’ ‘Song of the Sad Café,’ ‘The Seventh Day,’ ‘Butterfly Metamorphosis,’ ‘Mirror Flowers and Water Moon,’ ‘Love is Colder than Death,’ and more. Her works have toured in France, Germany, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Egypt, and various other stages and art festivals. Film representative work: Lou Ye’s ‘Lanxin Grand Theater’ (nominated for the Venice Film Festival’s main competition). Huang Xiali, with over 12 years of stage performance experience in more than 2000 shows, is acclaimed by many fans as ‘China’s Queen of Solo Performances.’
Troupe Meng Jinghui’s Drama Studio, since its establishment in 1997, has been creating contemporary drama works that lead the trend of Chinese culture and art with a principle of diversity and avant-garde. They have produced more than 50 plays, setting the pace for Chinese drama and repeatedly creating miracles in the Chinese-speaking theater world.
Among them, ‘Rhinoceros in Love’ alone has accumulated up to 3,000 performances and is hailed as the ‘contemporary love bible’. The touring footprints of Meng Jinghui Drama Studio cover all over the world: Japan, South Korea, Mexico, France, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Austria, Brazil, Egypt, etc.
The full text is open from November 13th to November 24th. The performance time and duration are subject to the site.
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