Venue: National Centre for the Performing Arts - Multi-functional Theatre

Date: October 24, 2017

Synopsis

When the Trojan War has just broken out, the Greek commander Agamemnon, who is self-willed, offends the Goddess of the Hunt Artemis, who orders him to offer his daughter’s life as a sacrifice. Agamemnon lies to his wife Clytemnestra that he will marry their daughter Iphigenia to the hero Achilles, and therefore deceives his wife into taking their daughter to the port of Aulis, where he then sends his daughter to the altar as an offering to the goddess. After the war is over, Clytemnestra murders Agamemnon in a fit of pique. Their son Orestes commits matricide to revenge his father, and therefore screws around with Nemesis. He is forced to flee and steal the statue of god in Tauris. However, his elder sister Iphigenia is still alive, since she has been saved by the Goddess of the Hunt and sent to Tauris to serve as a priest there. Destiny is going to cause the elder sister and younger brother to have a reunion on the inhospitable beach...

Credits

Playwright: Euripides

Translator: LUO Niansheng

Art Director: LUO Jinlin

Director: ZHAO Ningyu

Executive Presenter: CHEN Yi, ZHANG Hui, CHEN Wenbin

Chief Planner: YING Da

Managing Producer: WU Song

Set Designer: LÜ Bo

Lighting Designer: LÜ Bo

Lighting Supervisor: WANG Yao, ZHANG Dongjie

Lighting Assistant: CHAI Lidan, ZHANG Chaojie

Style Designer: LÜ Bo

Costume Design Director: XING Xiaolin

Music: FENG Da, SUI Linmu

Band: Jinhaiyin Orchestra

Band Leader: JIN Haiyin

Movement Directors: DU Shijie, DONG Yuanheng, ZHAO Yinglong

Voice Instructor: LI Bo

Voice Designer: MA Niu

Sound Editor: ZONG Xuan

Assistant: SHEN Hongyan

Stage Supervisor: WU Song

Cast

Iphigenia: YANG Qi, JIN Jing, FENG Dan, Banqiansangzhuo, LIU Ranran, GAO Rui, ZHANG Yezi, TONG Yue, DONG Yuanheng, LU Yifan

Orestes: YUAN Wei

Pylades: ZHAO Yinglong

Athena: YANG Qi

Messager: LIU Ranran, ZHANG Yezi

King: ZHAO Delong

Courtier: WU Song, MA Le

Narrator: FU Yaozhi

Invited Actors: WANG jinsong, XU Xiaodan, DU Shijie

Creative

ZHAO Ningyu has a series of titles including a professor at Beijing Film Academy, deputy director of Institute of Performing Arts, a doctoral supervisor at the institute, an executive director and deputy secretary general of China Television Director Committee, and vice president of China Film Acting Academy of Arts. He is also a director of Beijing Dramatists Association, Film Association and Critics Association, and a consultant at Korean Film Council.

He has directed, written a script or starred in many films and teleplays and has published over 120 theoretical and review articles.