{"id":71999,"date":"2018-01-06T08:14:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T12:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=71999"},"modified":"2018-01-06T02:22:50","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T06:22:50","slug":"cao-yu%e2%80%99s-early-20th-century-drama-thunderstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=71999","title":{"rendered":"Cao Yu\u2019s early 20th-century drama Thunderstorm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JAN 6 &#8211; 7:30pm<br \/>\n566 LaGuardia Pl<br \/>\nNew York, NY 10012 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-06-at-1.21.52-AM.png\" rel=\"lightbox[71999]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-72000\" title=\"Cao Yu\u2019s early 20th-century drama Thunderstorm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-06-at-1.21.52-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"379\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cao Yu\u2019s early 20th-century drama Thunderstorm, regarded as a masterpiece in Chinese theater, is dismantled and reassembled in this new interpretation helmed by internationally acclaimed director Wang Chong. Using real-time video editing and sound mixing from action occurring on stage, a hypnotic, near-silent movie unfolds to tell the explicit story of two female characters discovering that they have been cheated on by the same womanizing playboy.<\/p>\n<p>Updating the story to a Beijing official\u2019s home in the 1990s, Wang and his company of Beijing performers reinvent the classic play to reflect the complexities of contemporary capitalist-communist society, the ubiquity of technology and the sex-obsessed global landscape. Chong incorporates live pingtan players, a centuries-old form of traditional Chinese musical storytelling, to create the dialogue and soundtrack onstage.<\/p>\n<p>Performed in Chinese with English supertitles<\/p>\n<p>Co-presented by The Public Theater\u2019s Under the Radar Festival and NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts<\/p>\n<p>Support for this presentation of THUNDERSTORM 2.0 was provided by the Asian Cultural Council.<\/p>\n<p>This tour is supported by the Beijing Culture and Arts Fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAN 6 &#8211; 7:30pm 566 LaGuardia Pl New York, NY 10012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72002,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71999\/revisions\/72002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}