青年竞演

为推动青年原创戏剧的发展，扶持青年舞台戏剧人才，并为热爱戏剧有潜力、有梦想的青年创作者提供一个展示自我才华的平台，让青年创作者有机会向戏剧大师学习交流，乌镇戏剧节特设了青年竞演单元。

它们代表着本次乌镇戏剧节的新兴戏剧力量，将在戏剧节期间进行群众公演。戏剧节评审委员会将从这12部作品中选出本次青年竞演单元的前三名，在闭幕仪式上公布名单，并颁发奖状、奖杯和奖金。

The Young Theatre Artist’s Competition is a major component of the Wuzhen Festival. 12 creative groups will be chosen to come to Wuzhen to perform a newly created work on a topic designated by the Festival. The jury will be comprised of luminaries and masters of the art, and on the final day of the Festival will choose a Best Play, which comes with a cash prize of RMB200,000(US＄32260) and a Special Prize to the most outstanding artist, which comes with a cash prize of RMB60,000(US＄9678).

The purpose of the competition is part of the vision of the Festival Directors, to establish a platform for the development of original theater works among promising young artists. The platform is for passionate and potential young playwrights and performers to present themselves, learn from world drama masters and broaden their horizons.

This year the Young Theatre Artist’s Competition of Wuzhen Theatre Festival is regretfully only open to Chinese applicants aged 35 and under or presenting their first theatrical work. In future years it is hoped to be open to young theatre artists from all over the world.

关于首届青年竞演

“借助乌镇戏剧节，也希望实现更多年轻导演的梦想，乌镇是个梦想地，在这个小小的舞台将迸发出更多青春能量。”——陈向宏

“By virtue of the Wuzhen Theatre Festival, we sincerely hope that more and more young and talented directors can realize their dreams. Wuzhen is the cradle of dreams, a little platform where the energy of youth can be on display.”---Chen Xianghong

“首届戏剧节青年竞演的高水准让人很是欣慰。”——赖声川

“It was very comforting to see the high level of the Young Theatre Artist’s Competition in the Inaugural 2013 Wuzhen Theatre Festival.”---Stan Lai

“青年戏剧人是中国戏剧的未来和希望，戏剧节想要给青年戏剧导演提供一个展示的平台，让他们有机会向戏剧大师学习和交流。”——黄磊

“ The new generation of theatre artists is the future of Chinese theatre. The Wuzhen Theatre Festival offers these young theatre directors a platform to express themselves, as well as an opportunity to learn and communicate with the masters of theatre arts.”---Huang Lei

“竞演，时有惊艳。”——史航

“ The competition at times provided moments of startling beauty.”---Shi Hang

“青年竞演给有梦想的年轻人筑梦的力量。”——《嘉兴日报》

“The Young Theatre Artist’s Competition empowered young directors with the strength to build their dreams.”---Jia Xing Daily

“有趣有料有种的戏剧，玩的是哲学，而且用戏剧的异彩，证明自己玩得起。让人想起《等待戈多》，只是更多了一重演员表演技巧的狂欢。有章法有自信，能列队能变阵，成熟的创作者，带来开放的戏剧情境，贫嘴的天问，以及哲学的嘉年华。” ——史航评首届乌镇戏剧节小镇奖得主，《巴巴妈妈》导演陈明昊

"An interesting play with contents and guts. It plays with philosophy, showing through the brilliance of its drama that it has the tools to play. It reminds one of Waiting for Godot, but with more of a celebration of actors' skills. It is the work of a mature creator, confident, moving its rows and columns around with ease. It is a philosophic carnival with an open scenario, a poor mouth that asks questions to the sky.---Shi Hang, about the winner of the 2013 Inaugural Wuzhen Theatre Festival Young Theatre Artist's Competition Wuzhen Award, Chen Minghao, director of the drama BBMM

青年竞演赛程表Schedule of Young Theatre Artist’s Competition

2014.6.1               报名启动The registration period opens

2014.7.30              报名截止The registration period closes

2014.8.31              12部入围剧目公布The announcement of the 12 plays selected

2014.10.26             分组抽签Participants draw lots to be divided into groups

2014.10.31             首演剪彩The ribbon cutting and debut

2014.10.31-2014.11.6    12部入围剧目演出The performances of the 12 plays  selected

2014.11.7              公布决赛三强名单The announcement of the 3 plays advanced to the Finals

2014.11.8              决赛The Finals

2014.11.9              颁奖The Awards Ceremony