Deadline: 6 - 16 January 2011
With the Year of the Rabbit bouncing into view, BITE’s 3rd Annual Beijing International New Short Play Festival is in the starting blocks!
The theme of this year’s festival is “Fish Out of Water”— funny and touching stories about the disorientation, and the comedy, that is inevitably generated when people try to come to terms with a culture different from their own.
A number of the plays in the festival are about foreigners trying to come to terms with life in China, but there is also a love story inspired by Mark Twain, a bunch of people trapped on a train, a melodramatic South American medium… and some great songs. BINSPF Festival Director Anna Grace says: “Most of these stories are about life as it is really lived in Beijing. I was amazed by the response we had when we sent out our call for plays. We had 24 submissions and have chosen 16 terrific new plays, including one play written in Chinese and another by a 15 year-old Pakistani schoolboy who has been living in China for just five months.”
This year’s festival, which opens January 6, will run over eight nights until January 16 and will see 15 directors, 12 playwrights and dozens of actors compete for attention on the blackbox stage at Peng Hao Theatre, located in the hutong area off trendy Nanluoguxiang shopping district.
With Grace’s impulsion, the BINSPF Festival has grown in leaps and bounds over the past three years. There were just six plays in the first short play festival in May 2009, staged over two days. The following year featured eight original plays plus a musical. This year’s edition has doubled to 16 plays, including three musicals.
BINSPF Marketing Director Daniel Cotterall says: “There will be different plays on different nights… with some real jewels among them. And, what’s more, they’re home-grown jewels!” BINSPF is a theatre festival of Beijingers, by Beijingers, and for Beijingers!”
Awards will be given for “Best of the Fest” with prizes in acting, directing, and writing. Audiences and judges will decide the winners and a ceremony will be held on the last day of the festival.
Faithful to its customer-friendly policy, BITE will be offering a festival pass at a very modest 100 RMB for those who book in advance, or 80 RMB for students. The pass gives theatregoers entrance on three different evenings so that they can sample a wide a range of plays. Those who wish to enjoy only one evening of entertainment, tickets are only 50RMB and 30RMB for students.
For more information about the Festival, visit www.bitebeijing.com, email beijingtheatre@gmail.com, or call 136 2123 8655
More information here.
With the Year of the Rabbit bouncing into view, BITE’s 3rd Annual Beijing International New Short Play Festival is in the starting blocks!
The theme of this year’s festival is “Fish Out of Water”— funny and touching stories about the disorientation, and the comedy, that is inevitably generated when people try to come to terms with a culture different from their own.
A number of the plays in the festival are about foreigners trying to come to terms with life in China, but there is also a love story inspired by Mark Twain, a bunch of people trapped on a train, a melodramatic South American medium… and some great songs. BINSPF Festival Director Anna Grace says: “Most of these stories are about life as it is really lived in Beijing. I was amazed by the response we had when we sent out our call for plays. We had 24 submissions and have chosen 16 terrific new plays, including one play written in Chinese and another by a 15 year-old Pakistani schoolboy who has been living in China for just five months.”
This year’s festival, which opens January 6, will run over eight nights until January 16 and will see 15 directors, 12 playwrights and dozens of actors compete for attention on the blackbox stage at Peng Hao Theatre, located in the hutong area off trendy Nanluoguxiang shopping district.
With Grace’s impulsion, the BINSPF Festival has grown in leaps and bounds over the past three years. There were just six plays in the first short play festival in May 2009, staged over two days. The following year featured eight original plays plus a musical. This year’s edition has doubled to 16 plays, including three musicals.
BINSPF Marketing Director Daniel Cotterall says: “There will be different plays on different nights… with some real jewels among them. And, what’s more, they’re home-grown jewels!” BINSPF is a theatre festival of Beijingers, by Beijingers, and for Beijingers!”
Awards will be given for “Best of the Fest” with prizes in acting, directing, and writing. Audiences and judges will decide the winners and a ceremony will be held on the last day of the festival.
Faithful to its customer-friendly policy, BITE will be offering a festival pass at a very modest 100 RMB for those who book in advance, or 80 RMB for students. The pass gives theatregoers entrance on three different evenings so that they can sample a wide a range of plays. Those who wish to enjoy only one evening of entertainment, tickets are only 50RMB and 30RMB for students.
For more information about the Festival, visit www.bitebeijing.com, email beijingtheatre@gmail.com, or call 136 2123 8655
More information here.
