Ningbo Comedy 'Mr. Jiang's Face' - Centennial Edition of Nanjing University's Drama Department

Plot

This is a story about the predecessors and the principal, fictionalized by a younger student based on the school’s history and legends. In 1943, Chongqing, the wartime capital, during the Anti-Japanese War. Chiang Kai-shek, who personally served as the president of the National Central University (renamed Nanjing University in 1950), invited three renowned professors from the Chinese Department to have the New Year’s Eve dinner. This put the three professors in a dilemma: whether to go or not, and whether to give Mr. Jiang this face? In 1967, in the old capital Nanjing, during the Cultural Revolution. The three professors were investigated for this matter, and they had different recollections of whether they were invited by Chiang Kai-shek and whether they had attended Chiang Kai-shek’s banquet.

Stage Design Upgrade

Unlike the old version of the stage design, the new version of ‘Mr. Jiang’s Face’ has a richer quality. In the design process, the main creative teachers referred to a large number of real street scenes from the Anti-Japanese War period, and ‘Xiu Zhu Tea House’ has become a more layered space.

Nanjing University’s MFA Theatre Troupe

Established in September 2007, Nanjing University’s MFA Theatre Troupe is a theatrical art group under the guidance of the Drama and Film Research Institute and the Department of Drama and Film Art at the School of Liberal Arts of Nanjing University. The MFA Theatre Troupe integrates teaching with literary and theatrical creation, and its main members are past, present, and future MFA students in drama, film, and television. In February 2013, Nanjing University’s MFA Theatre Troupe stepped out of the campus and registered in Qixia District, Nanjing City, becoming a local and social young theatre troupe, committed to contributing to contemporary society with more professional theatrical art works. The troupe’s production of ‘Mr. Jiang’s Face’ was listed in the ‘Stage Art Masterpieces Project’ by the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Culture in 2014.

The full text is open on 11/29-11/30, Friday-Saturday, and the performance time and duration are subject to the on-site schedule.