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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.
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