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.