2015.11.19川剧《灰阑记》
Sichuan Opera The Chalk Circle

Circle of Chalk, by Li Qianfu, is a Yuan dynasty (1259–1368) Chinese classical drama, in four acts with a prologue. The Chinese language original is known for the beauty of its lyrical verse, and considered a Yuan masterpiece; a series of translations and revisions inspired several popular modern plays.
The play became first known in the Western world in a French language translation by Stanislas Julien, published in London in 1832 as Le Cercle de Craie. This was liberally re-translated into German by Klabund as Der Kreidekreis in 1924, which was very popular.

In 1940, Bertolt Brecht wrote Der Augsburger Kreidekreis, a short story based on Der Kreidekreis, which reworks the story by omitting any Imperial intervention and making the first wife the biological mother, but having her abandon the child. The heroine is a serving girl who rescues and raises him, becoming the "real" mother. In 1944, he further reworked the story as the play, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, moving the events to medieval Georgia, adding a prologue set in Soviet Georgia, and greatly elaborating the narrative.

Now, the famous Sichuan Opera leader Shen Tiemei worked as producer to guarantee the quality of

Sichuan Opera The Chalk Circle. It’s depended on the story of The Caucasian Chalk Circle, with this unique artistic way , Sichuan Opera The Chalk Circle tells a story about “the battle to win a son” which took place in ancient China. Compared with the traditional Sichuan Opera, in addition to "Changing Faces", "walk shadow", "pull eyeliner" and other Sichuan Opera unique skills, but also adding a lot of the elements and buzzwords which are popular in present time and network, such as "running with tears", "iron lady" kind of humor hot words were also interspersed in the lines.

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