Play and Performance of Hometown: A Talk on College Theater Production
Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Dr. GAO Ziwen

 

 

 

 

Time: Jan. 12, Wednesday, 1:00 PM-2:30 PM CET, Beijing Time 8:00 PM-9:30 PM
Zoom Meeting: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/96138078236Meeting ID: 96138078236
Language: Chinese with English interpretation
Poster: Zhang Tong / Yumin Ao
More information under: https://yingmingtheater.com/seminar-series-no-8/

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讲题:《故乡》的编剧与制作——兼谈校园戏剧创作

嘉宾: 高子文（博士）副教授

时间: 1月12日（周三）欧洲中部时间 下午13:00时 北京时间 晚间20:00时

地点：https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/96138078236

会议号：96138078236

语言：中文配英文翻译

海报：张桐 / 敖玉敏

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Lecture Content 讲座内容

1. To introduce the production background of Hometown 介绍舞台剧《故乡》的剧本创作背景
2. To describe the production process and market promotion 描绘《故乡》的制作流程和市场推广
3. To discuss the advantage and challenges for college theater productions 讨论校园戏剧创作的优势和面临的困境

Short Bio 个人简介

Gao Ziwen: associate professor at Nanjing University, head of the Department of Theater, Film, and TV Arts, and deputy dean of the School of Liberal Arts. He received a bachelor’s degree in Chinese Language and Literature and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Theater and Traditional Chinese Drama Studies from Nanjing University. In 2011, he was a visiting scholar at Columbia University. In 2013, he participated in the artist-in-residence program in Austria. He currently acts as the executive editor of Stage and Screen Review. In 2019, he was awarded the Fund for Outstanding Young Scholars in Social Sciences in Jiangsu province. He was selected by the Jiangsu Province “Qinglan Initiative” as one of the young and mid-aged academic leaders in 2021. His research interests include theatrical theories and theater criticism. He has completed, as Principle Investigator, several research projects in social sciences at national and provincial levels. He was granted the Young Teacher Award of the Fok Yingdong Education Foundation. He wrote a monograph Wenming de nizi: Meiguo xiandai xiju de zhongguo xushu and translated American Avant–Garde Theatre: A History into Chinese. He has published over 30 papers which can be seen in Literature and Art Studies, The Journal of National Taiwan Normal University, and Theater Arts, etc. He also authored stage plays, including Day and Night Here, Pollution and Purification, and Hometown.

高子文：南京大学文学院副教授，文学院戏剧影视艺术系主任，文学院副院长。南京大学汉语言文学本科，戏剧戏曲学硕士、博士。2011年哥伦比亚大学访问学者。2013年参加奥地利驻地艺术家项目。现任《戏剧与影视评论》执行主编。2019年入选江苏省社科优青。2021年入选江苏省“青蓝工程”中青年学术带头人。主要研究领域为戏剧理论、戏剧批评。主持完成国家社科项目、江苏省社科项目多项，获霍英东青年教师基金。出版有个人专著《文明的逆子们：美国现代戏剧的中国叙事》，译著《美国先锋戏剧：一种历史》。在《文艺研究》《台大中文学报》《戏剧艺术》等刊物发表论文30余篇。创作有舞台剧剧本《这里的白天和夜晚》《污染和净化》《故乡》。

Event Information 活动介绍

We are honored to invite Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gao Ziwen of the Department of Theater, Film, and TV Arts of Nanjing University as our first guest speaker for the “Contemporary Theater Art” Seminar Series in the Year 2022. He will deliver a talk on “Play and Performance of Hometown: College Theater Production.”

Hometown is a three-act comedy written by Dr. Gao. The author demonstrates his respect for Lu Xun to mark the 100th anniversary of Lu’s publication of the novelette of the same name. The play tells the social life in rural China while experiencing dramatic changes. It demonstrates snobbish or friendly relationships in the countryside as well. It depicts the mental distress of peasants in the hometown and educated young people who have made their exodus to cities. It presents the tension between people’s “being adaptable” and “being rigid.” The whole thrust of the drama is full of humor and irony. Meanwhile, it makes the audiences reflect on China’s rural economic and social development.

Their department is housed in the Faculty of Literature. It offers one of the most influential and leading undergraduate and graduate programs in drama or theater studies at the C9 League universities in China. They produced the historical comedy President’s Invitation in 2012. The director was Prof. Lü Xiaoping, and the play was authored by Lü’s student Wen Fangyi whom The Journal of Ying Ming Theater (Vol. 7) interviewed. The cast consisted of the students and teachers from Communication University of China (Nanjing) and the MFA students from Nanjing University. This drama has grossed ¥10 million at the box office. It went on tour in North America in 2013. The New York Times (Chinese Edition) published an analytical article on the reasons for the success of this production and the phenomenon of returning to dramatic texts in the current Chinese theater landscape.

This event is co-organized by the Center for Modern East Asian Studies of the University of Göttingen and the Department of Theater, Film, and TV Arts of Nanjing University. Further detailed information concerning the time and the venue can be found on the poster.

“当代剧场艺术”讲座系列很荣幸地邀请到了南京大学戏剧影视文学系的高子文教授。他将为大家带来该系列2022新年第一讲，题目是“《故乡》的编剧与制作：兼谈校园戏剧创作”。

《故乡》是高子文副教授担任编剧创作的三幕喜剧，本剧为纪念鲁迅先生的短篇小说《故乡》发表100周年而做。该剧讲述了山乡巨变时代下中国农村的生活面貌与人情世故，描写了故乡农民和从故乡出走的青年知识分子的精神苦闷。戏剧冲突在人的“改变”与“固守”之间展开，语言幽默诙谐，同时又不失对中国乡土社会重建以及现代农村经济发展的深刻反省。

南京大学文学院下设的戏剧影视文学系提供戏剧专业教育，是“中国九校联盟”中最具影响力和最前沿的本科及研究生项目之一。2012年，南大推出了以校史为题材的喜剧《蒋公的面子》，首演反响强烈，随即开启全国巡演，目前票房已超千万。该剧由时任戏剧影视文学系系主任的吕效平教授担任导演，编剧温方伊是南京大学戏文专业本科三年级学生（哥廷根大学《嘤鸣戏剧》曾对作者进行了采访，见第7期），演员由中国传媒大学南广学院表演专业的师生和南京大学戏剧专业硕士担任。2013年，该剧进入北美，在旧金山、洛杉矶、达拉斯、休斯顿、波士顿、华盛顿、纽约七个城市为华人观众演出10场。《纽约时报》（中文版）曾刊载专题文章，分析了该剧在海内外取得成功的原因，并讨论了当下戏剧创作回归文本的现象。

本次活动由哥廷根大学东亚系与南京大学戏剧影视文学系联合主办，活动详情请见海报。

 

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Organizer / 主办:

哥廷根大学现代东亚研究中心

南京大学戏剧影视文学系

Partner / 协办:

哥廷根大学嘤鸣戏剧社

哥廷根大学学术孔子学院

哥廷根中国学生学者联合会