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Three generations of one family risk everything to carry a secret code to the guerrillas in The Red Lantern, a modern Peking opera from the China National Peking Opera Company’s 2027 New Year series.
The performance is in Chinese.
The story unfolds during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, in an occupied town. Railway switchman Li Yuhe is a member of the Communist Party of China. The three generations of his family do not share a surname: they were brought together seventeen years earlier during the great strike of 7 February.
Li Yuhe is charged with passing a secret code to the Baishan guerrillas, but a traitor gives him away and he is arrested. At the enemy’s banquet, in his cell and at the execution ground he stays brave and unbending. Granny Li tells Tiemei the family’s revolutionary history and urges her to stand firm. Unable to break them, the enemy kills Li Yuhe and Granny Li.
Taking up the cause of her father and grandmother, and helped by the Party organisation and the people, Tiemei outwits her pursuers, carries the code to Baishan and completes the mission entrusted to her.
Artistic direction: Liu Changyu.
Cast (names transliterated)
Qin Liangmu as Li Yuhe; Zhang Lan as Granny Li; Li Chen as Li Tiemei; Ma Along as Hatoyama; Zhu Lingyu as the Knife Grinder; Ou Jian as Wang Lianju; Zheng Fei as Tian Huilian; Zhang Xueyan as Aunt Tian; Wang Yuzhou as the Liaison Man; Xie Chunyu as the Corporal; Zhang Sen as Hou Xianbu; Huang Jia as the Impostor.
Drums: Ni Qisen; Huqin: Zhou Youjun. Accompaniment: Youth Troupe Orchestra of the China National Peking Opera Company. Stage design: Production and Stage Design Centre of the China National Peking Opera Company.
Children taller than 1.2 metres require an adult ticket; children shorter than 1.2 metres are not admitted.
Admission is approximately 30 minutes before the performance.
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32 Ping'anli West Street, Xicheng District, Beijing (北京市西城区平安里西大街32号)
Named after the Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang, this theatre brings traditional Chinese opera into a modern performance setting.
The red exterior and glass facade introduce a venue belonging to the China National Peking Opera Company. Two auditoriums offer different scales of performance: the main theatre and a smaller space on the fourth floor, both at the Ping’anli West Street address.
