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Hong Kong Arts Festival & Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre

China

 

The Crowd

 

Director: Tang Wai-kit

By: Nick Yu Rongjun

 

Performance by: Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre

Presenter: Yang Shaolin

Artistic Director: Tian Shui

Music: Chester Wong

Live Musician: Liu Zhengdong

Scenographer & Costume Designer: Jan Wong

Lighting Designer: Bert Wong

Sound Designer & Operator: Becky Yam, Wang Xiuan

Production Manager & Stage Manager: Leo Siu

Stage Manager: Robin Wang Fei

Assistant Lighting Designer: Wang Beijun

Technical Designer: Xu Jinjia

Costume Operator: Bi Wenzong

Prop Operator: Yu Shuxi

Executive Producer: Huang Yiping, Susanna Yu

Cast : Yang Haoyu, Jiang Ke, Huang Chen, You Mei, Liu Yi Chen, Xu Jingling

 

Performance presented in Chinese, with translation into Romanian and English.

Duration: 2h

Date of premiere: 27.03.2015

Original title: 乌合之众

 

Hong Kong, 2014. Wang Guoqing wakes up from a recurring dream: glorious sunshine, a cluster of trees outside the arsenals in the suburbs of Chongqing, a murder of crows takes to the sky.

The hilly Chongqing during the Cultural Revolution. Ding Jianguo, a sensible factory worker, is persuaded to take part in armed struggles by his peers. The 13-year-old Wang Guoqing is taken by his mother to seek refuge in a relative's home, but on the way, she is shot dead outside the arsenal by this worker with the gun he has just been given. Wang watches her die and the fear haunts him for life. Returning from being sent down to the countryside, Wang finds out that Ding is only sentenced to three years for his crime. Incensed by the leniency, Wang decides to take justice into his hands.

1987, Wang is married and has a son. He finds out that Ding is in a hospital in Shanghai and grabs the chance to exact his revenge. However, his plans are thwarted. After that, he loses all traces of Jianguo, but in 2000, he finds his son Ding Liming, who works as a judge. He stalks Ding Liming and finds out that he keeps a mistress. He wages a battle against the establishment to discredit Ding Liming to no avail. In 2014, he manages to wield the masses to destroy Ding Liming's reputation and career with the social media. (Translated by Gigi Chang)