Title of Project：Theatre Popular Mechanics by New Youth Group

Genre(s): Play.

GROUP:NEW YOUTH GROUP

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF : "The New Youth Group is staging the reality of today’s China via a cross-section of real people living in Beijing – none of whom work in the theatre – and their everyday experiences. Working with the group, Li Jianjun has used their real-life stories to develop a panorama in which the theatre and playing with fictional roles and legendary characters from literature and film history superimpose themselves over people’s everyday lives." As a branch of physics, mechanics studies energy, force, and their relation to the equilibrium, deformation, or motion of solids, liquids and gases. In the theatre, actors, space, audience and other elements of drama also have some kind of relation, like the flow and balance of energy or force. Inspired by the work of the same name written by American short story writer Raymond Carver, the New Youth Group has created a new drama named Popular Mechanics in 2018. Popular Mechanics focuses on the ritual feelings and empathy that ordinary people have obtained in transitory performance. When ordinary people act on the stage not as “actors,” how will their completely different temperaments and life experiences bring changes to the characters, lines, reality, and the boundaries of self in the theatre?

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