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Harlequino: On to Freedom

Date: Nov 19-20－7:30 pm

Venue: Beijing Comedy Theater

Price: 80-680 yuan

The drama discusses the true essence of art with the jocosity and humor of Italian improvisational comedy; a group of troublemaker performers interrupt the lecture of their drama professor and use slides to show and demonstrate improvisational comedy. The perceptive modes of the group of performers are very different from those of their professor, and their disagreement develops into an argument about the essence of improvisational comedy. They discuss the purpose of art, reflect on how history is written and survey what is funny and what needs to be liberated.

Taiyuan Dance Troupe Dance Thousand-hand Bodhisattva

Date: Nov 19-20－7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 100-580 yuan

The dance drama Thousand-hand Bodhisattva is a recreation on the basis of the legend of Thousand-hand Bodhisattva widely circulated. It is a story with fable implications: Long long ago, a plague struck the State of Dai and even the King was not spared. Third Princess is prodigal of benefactions. She asks for permission to look for the magic lotus to save her father's life. Led by the Red Dragonfly, she has finally found the magic lotus thorough twists and turns and all kinds of trials. While in the face of the people suffering the abysses of misery, she resolutely offers the magic lotus instead.