White Snake, Green Snake selfies... This "White Snake Chronicles" has a metaverse space where Xu Xian and Fahai play and frolic

Release time:Apr 16, 2024 20:38 PM

On September 9th and 10th, the Guangzhou Ballet Theatre's "Legend of the White Snake" made its debut at the Shanghai International Dance Center. The drama starts from chapters such as Jingzhe, Yuhu, Qinse, Fantasy Thoughts, Duanyang, Duanshun, Decision Making, and Mingxin, using light comedy techniques to convey Eastern culture with humor and humor.

Director Wang Ge stated that if the original version of "The Legend of the White Snake" is presented, it will last at least 3 hours. Nowadays, stage segments are centered around fun, aesthetics, and emotions. He wants to explore in the drama, "In the fast-paced, information explosion era and a society filled with various voices, how do we find our original intention? How do we see the most real things in our hearts?" In Wang Ge's view, "The Legend of the White Snake" is like a mirror that can reflect many characteristics of human nature: loyalty to love, greed for power and desire... These are also common in the real world.


White Snake, Green Snake selfies... This "White Snake Chronicles" has a metaverse space where Xu Xian and Fahai play and frolic

The use of props as imagery in the play. Wang Ge gave an example that in Chinese culture, "umbrella" sounds homophonic with "scattered". Xu Xian took a white umbrella because white represents beauty; Fahai held a black umbrella, indicating a tragic ending.

The Legend of the White Snake


White Snake, Green Snake selfies... This "White Snake Chronicles" has a metaverse space where Xu Xian and Fahai play and frolic

The elements of sketch comedy are faintly visible in "The Legend of the White Snake". Wang Ge said that this is somewhat like "role-playing" - when dressing up as the character in one's mind, what different imaginations and judgments will be made when facing problems? There are quite a few details set up in the drama to remind the audience: what you see in the theater is not only a legend of "The Legend of the White Snake", but also the metaverse space where the protagonists are wandering.

Xu Xian and Fahai were playing and frolicking while holding "The Legend of the White Snake", Fahai was jumping in and out during the cutscenes, Xu Xian was selling cultural and creative products and props in the play, White Snake and Green Snake were taking selfies, and the four Heavenly Kings on the balance car were providing paid photo services... The audience interpreted it as the game experience where the protagonists participated in COSPLAY, and the actors in the play were responsible for the NPC settings in the game.


White Snake, Green Snake selfies... This "White Snake Chronicles" has a metaverse space where Xu Xian and Fahai play and frolic

The Legend of the White Snake

The Legend of the White Snake


White Snake, Green Snake selfies... This "White Snake Chronicles" has a metaverse space where Xu Xian and Fahai play and frolic

"Provide more space for the audience to deconstruct the plot, where everyone is both the audience and a participant." Wang Ge said that although this version of "The Legend of the White Snake" does not travel through time and space, the audience can have space to enter the inner world of different characters, feel their joys and sorrows, experience their struggles and choices. "Like Xu Xian, they have experienced emotional changes such as meeting, falling in love, and separation in the play, facing desires like Fahai, struggling between sensibility and rationality, human nature and Buddha nature. The audience is not only watching" The Legend of the White Snake ", but also reading their own story and inner thoughts."

The drama is produced by the Propaganda Department of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, and Tourism. It is jointly produced by Guangzhou Cultural Development Group Co., Ltd., with Zou Gang, the head of the Guangzhou Ballet, serving as the producer and artistic director, and Zhang Ping, the executive vice director of the Dance and Art Center of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, serving as the screenwriter. The music producer of several popular film and television dramas, such as "White Snake: Origin" and "White Snake 2: The Rise of the Green Snake", and the first Chinese Oscar winner, Ye Jintian, serving as the composer, costume, and styling designer, are funded by the National Art Fund for the 2023 large-scale stage play and work creation project.


White Snake, Green Snake selfies... This "White Snake Chronicles" has a metaverse space where Xu Xian and Fahai play and frolic

The Legend of the White Snake

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