Series Outstanding Performances from China's National Art Troupes

Great Repertoire of National Art Ensembles 2011: Drama Asking the Land

Venue： Theatre, NCPA

Dates： Sept. 02, 2011-Sept. 04, 2011

Duration： approximate 150 mins, no intermissions

Price： VIP/480/400/320/200/120 RMB  

About

Production: Zhou Zhiqiang Supervisor: Yan Fengqi Producer: Liu Tiegang Original Author: Cao Zhenglu Playwright: Gong Yingtian Director: Zha Mingzhe Set Designer: Xue Dianjie Lighting Designer: Xing Xin Costume Designer: Fang Weiguo Leading Cast: Sha Jingchang, Jiang Jiaqi, Xu Yun, Liu Henan, Xu Wei, Niu Piao, Mo Yuanji, Chang Yuhong, Zhang Xiqian, Wang Yi, Luo Kuang

Different people are confronted with sighing fate. Cruel ending may be that you are precisely her, and may be she is precisely you.

This drama is adapted based on Cao Zhenglu's best-selling novel with the same name. With novel structure, this drama narrates from the end by making detailed analysis and getting insight into truth. With all threads neatly tied up in the synopsis, the harsh social reality is implied in exciting suspense comparable to detective story!

Performer: National Theatre of China National Theatre of China (NTC) was established on December 25, 2001 by merging the former China Youth Art Theatre and Central Experimental Theatre. NTC has attracted a cohort of talents from the fields of drama, TV and film arts. It offers a platform where tradition meets modernity and state-of-the-art performance is pursued to nurture theatrical masterpieces. During recent years, NTC has presented a number of great plays on its stage, including The Dawns Here Are Quiet, The Chinese Orphan and The Wilderness and People, becoming the pillar in domestic drama community.

Synopsis

Fire breaks out in woman workers' dormitory in an electronics company. Mao Mei, a woman worker, is burned and seriously injured due to rescue for corporate property.

On behalf of the company, Chang Lailin, Chairman of Trade Union, investigates this accident. But he gradually finds all clues point to Mao Mei - she may deliberately make self-harm in order to gain compensation by cheating!

Chang Lailin finds Mao Mei's friends to carry out memory-based survey...

Various emotions and all kinds of interests lead to many different kinds of people in a huge interest collective.

Repeated interrogations for soul actually arrive at different answers!

Souls are distorted one by one, whereas souls are also corrected one by one.

However, when the truth is upcoming, Mao Mei commits suicide...

The story always stays in the scene of girls stepping out village hand in hand, with beautiful smiles...