Last Years

晚年

Second Price, the 3rd World Sinophone Drama Competition
for Young Playwrights

Drama/Stage-reading Events

Playwright: Hongchang Xu

Play-Reading Festival of WSDC
Venue: Shu-Te University, Kaohsiung/Nanjing University, Nanjing
Date: Oct, 28/Dec, 2, 2017
Duration: 120 mins

“New Theatre Project”, Beijing
Venue: Penghao Theatre, Beijing
Date: Jan, 12, 2019
Duration: 120 mins

 

“… The script is a mixture of memory and forgetting of several political movements in 20th-century, China. An old woman who lived alone in her old age… talked to the visiting grandson about the trauma of the family’s past, and at the same time was frightened that her memory would be stolen… Specially, the use of elements, such as misidentifications, recordings, letters, hallucinations, etc., has gradually caused a surreal twist in the original realistic situation. It has also made memory and reality more entangled with each other .”

-Prof. Katherine Hui-ling Chou(Project Director of Black Box Performance Center at National Central University)

…關於記憶與遺忘的劇本。耄耋之年的獨居老嫗…向來訪孫子談論家族過往的創傷,同時又驚恐自己的記憶會被竊取…她幾度混淆記憶與現實…作者進一步運用錯認、錄音、信件、幻覺等元素,使得原本寫實的情境,逐步出現了超現實的扭轉,也讓記憶與現實更為糾纏,彼此扭曲。”

-国立中央大学教授、泛华竞赛主席周慧玲

“The author does not even hide the traces of reality from which it is told…It is therefore easy to think of the play as something like an oral history…The play comes from the author’s life, compiled from the voluminous notes he recorded while living with his elders. All of a sudden I could see how hard it was to create such a play. It was the weight of truth that made the author devote himself to his work.”

-Mr. Zhang hang( member of the China Theatre Association, poet, playwright)

“……是真实本身,是真实之重使作者投入创作,将素材提炼为作品的过程必定反复而漫长,作者遇到的困难将不是选择什么样的形式,而是创造形式,并直到最后仍与形式的不纯粹不彻底斗争。而斗争的结果,即令我饶有兴趣的,是在这一结果中起初奔向目标的直硬与反复锤炼的精巧并存。”

-中国戏剧家协会成员、剧作者张杭

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