A play that turns into a comedy of errors
The creative team of the play at the news conference at the Beijing People's Art Theatre. When the Beijing People's Art Theatre's director Lin Cong was trying to make a Chinese stage adaptation of The Miser, a five-act comedy by Moliere — the greatest of French comedy writers — she decided to find out what the actor and playwright had experienced before writing his classic play. From April 19 to May 12, the latest Chinese adaptation of The Miser by the Beijing People's Art Theatre will premiere at the Cao Yu Theater, one of the venues of Beijing International Theater Center. Codirected by Lin and Yang Jiayin, it stars young performers of the Beijing People's Art Theatre, as well as veteran performers, including Fu Jia in the lead role of the miser, Harpagon. This has been used as a way to train young performers of the theater company, according to Feng Yuanzheng, a veteran actor and president of the Beijing People's Art Theatre.
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