Drama - On the RoadOct.14th，2016 New Space Theatre, STA
In ancient China, "Mingtu Lu Yin", a small piece of paper, a.k.a "the special night boat to the afterlife", is the pass to the road of the underworld. During Ming and Qing Dynasty, people believed that the dead had to get the Mingtu Lu Yin and went to the other world, or his soul would linger forever in this world without transmigration and rebirth. The official Lu Yin was only issued by "Chenghuang Miao", the local Temple of the Town Deity where the dead one was born, otherwise, the pass was invalid. In the regnal era of Yongle Emperor, Ming Dynasty, the Peking pickle workshop owner Lao Cheng was dying, but the poor man fought hard to hold his last breath to wait his delayed Lu Yin. Due to the flood, the road between the north and south was blocked. Before getting his valid Lu Yin from his hometown, he could not close his eyes and pass away peacefully. After seeing Lao Cheng’s determination and suffering, his son decided to drag his father’s coffin with Lao Cheng lying in it, alive, from Peking to Nanjing, travelled by the land route and then by boat, to attain the Lu Yin.
Yang Yikun
Yang Yikun, has BA and Master in Dramatic Literature, the Central Academy of Drama, instructed by the play writer Huang Weiruo. Since 2009, Yang participates in many drama festivals as the Beijing International Youth Theatre Festival, Nanluoguxiang Drama Festival and Wuzhen Theatre Festival. In 2011, Yang’s work "The Peacock Flies to Southeast, the wife of Jiao Zhongqing’s" was performed on the stage by Jiang Ruoyu, the professor of the Central Academy of Drama. As a successful experiment on the dramatic language system, this show gained many attentions and applauses and was regarded as "the Kun opera with the drama appearance". Since then, Yang has tried many different genres of drama. The drama, "The Autumn Sound of Bianshui River" won the 25th Tian Han Drama Award. The music drama "Blossom" won the Campus Award of China Drama and the Outstanding Repertoire and Excellent Screenplay in the Beijing Student Drama Festival. In the year of 2014, the drama "If Leave," was nominated for "Youth competition play" session, and won the "Town Award ", the highest award of the Best Drama Awards in the 2nd Wuzhen Theatre Festival. In 2015, Yang attended the Theater Festival in Avignon, France, and won the first-class reward of 30th Tian Han drama Award in 2016.
