BRIEF INTRODUCTION OF CHINA CHILDREN ARTS THEATER (CCAT)

China Children Arts Theater, founded in 1956,is a national-level theater under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Culture.

In the past 45 years , China Children Arts Theater has always been playing a role of guidance, representation, trial and model in the field of the national children drama. Oriented towards audience of 380 million children and young people in China, it has presented lots of itinerant performances around China. In 1995, the music drama Ma Lan Flower was staged by China Children Arts Theater in Singapore where the audience were deeply impressed by it.

China Children Arts Theater has created more than 130 plays and given performances of over ten thousand within the past 45 years. Among the plays staged by CCAT, Ma Lan Flower is the most classic one, which was once instructed and directed by Former Premier Zhou Enlai and praised constantly by audience of the last three generations of New China since 1949. In this way, we can say that Ma Lan Flower is not only the representative work of China Children Arts Theater, but also the first successful milestone for the children plays in China. Some other famous plays given by CCAT include in the Name of Revolution, Yue Yun , Newsboy and 12 Months, etc. In addition, there are also a great number of plays awarded with the national prizes and governmental prizes. Besides Ma Lan Flower, other plays staged recently are the music drama Cradlesong in the Moonlight, Enjoy Hardship and so on. Some other classic plays will be performed, including The Education of Love, The Adventure of Onion and the music drama Beijing Protoplast.

In the process of the past 45 years′development, China Children Arts Theater also trained many famous artists and performers on children plays such as Fang Jufen, Tan Kun, Lian Dezhi and so on.Wang Tiecheng and Li Ding ,two famous performance artists, are also members of CCAT. CCAT also boasts of some famous actors and actresses in the film circle, such as Chen Baoguo, Xue Bai, Xu Yajun , Shan Zenghong,and Guo Lianwen, etc.

11plsywrights in CCAT won Wenhua Prize, the highest governmental prize in China, including Ouyang Yibing, Wang Yang and so on; and 8 9 artists got Plum Flower Prize, such as Shan Zenghong, Liu Xiaoming, Zhong Hao, Wang Lihua, Li Shanshan,Wang Yaoand Jia Zhanhong, etc. In addition, ZouYe, a talented composer, and Miao Peiru, a famous Stage Artist, contribute a lot to the work of CCAT.

Ouyang Yibing, a famous playwright, is the current president of China Children Arts Theater, and Fang Jufen, a famous performer of children plays, works as the honorary president.

China Children Arts Theater will devote itself to creating more wonderful plays for lots of children and young people in the new century. CCAT is in consistent pursuit of the goal that every play can become a pearl in the hearts of children and the China Children Arts Theater can be the spiritual home for children.