Dedicated her life to the revolution, this extraordinary woman founded a women's school, studied abroad in France, and provided financial support for the Jiangcheng assassination | Xiang Jingyu | Jiangcheng
On July 4th and 5th, the 2023 National Art Fund Communication, Exchange and Promotion Funding Project and the modern Chu opera "Xiang Jingyu" will appear at the Wanping Theater. Through the touching plots of sisters love, comradeship love, husband and wife love, mother and son love, the play shows the noble family and country feelings of Xiang Jingyu, and causes the audience to think about the value and connotation of life. During the Shanghai station tour, "Xiang Jingyu" will participate in the selection of the Shanghai Magnolia Drama Performance Art Award.
In 2019, the Wuhan Chu Opera Theater created Xiang Jingyu, which captured such thrilling fragments as Xiang Jingyu's founding of a female school to fight against the countercurrent, studying in France to find truth, being brave in the task of the prison commission, and pouring blood into the city, reflecting Xiang Jingyu's revolutionary spirit and noble character of pursuing ideals, being loyal to beliefs, and defending the interests of the people until death, and reproducing the life course of the early leader of the CPC.
"Xiang Jingyu" was written by Zhao Ruitai, directed by He Yiguang, and composed by Zhou Shulian, Liu Kai, and Cheng Jie. Wen Hua Award and Plum Blossom Award winner Xia Qingling plays Xiang Jingyu, while Plum Blossom Award winner Yu Weigang, outstanding young actors Yang Lin, Chen Xiaomeng, Cai Wei, and Deng Yaqian play the main roles. Since its inception, "Xiang Jingyu" has been selected for the National Local Opera Southern Concert Drama, and has won the Excellent Award of the "Five One Project" for spiritual civilization construction in Hubei Province and the Excellent Drama Award of the China Drama Festival. It is another fusion and display of Chu opera art carrying revolutionary heroes and patriotic themes.
Over the past four years, Xiang Jingyu has undergone multiple polishing and adjustments. In the content of the story, the essence is adjusted and compressed to highlight the character of the characters in the surging historical scroll, and at the same time, the revolutionary martyrs are described as ordinary people in a more delicate and true way. The whole play depicts Xiang Jingyu's last ten years of life in great detail. She is frustrated in setting up a women's school in her hometown. She went to France with Cai Hesen, returned to China to join the CPC, and came to Wuhan in 1927. The following year, she was betrayed and killed.
After completing the first stop of the national tour in Wuhan at the end of May, "Xiang Jingyu" plans to complete ten national tours in five cities in Shanghai, Beijing, Hefei, Anhui, and Xupu, Hunan. The crew looks forward to this tour igniting a spark once again, allowing more audiences to understand and understand revolutionary pioneers from party history, explore the sources of ideals and beliefs, and inherit the spirit of the Red Revolution.