Midsummer has arrived. The STA Experimental Theatre is about to reopen after 145 days of suspension. Let's switch the time back to 145 days ago.
145 days ago, the COVID-19 pandemic came to attack, and the STA Experimental Theater quietly closed. With the care and concern of the Party and administrative leaders of the Shanghai Theatre Academy (STA), the STA Experimental Theater actively engaged in the prevention and control of the COVID-19 pandemic on the one hand, and carried out the rational planning of internal resource allocation under the principle of “suspending business without stopping work” on the other hand.
96 days ago, the management and operation of the STA Experimental Theatre was officially taken over by the STA Performance Center, with its main functions covering the teaching practice, teaching repertoire and major performance projects of STA. The reformed management mode of the STA Experimental Theatre focuses on the basic principles of "innovation, pragmatism, talent and safety", and is committed to establishing the brand image of STA’s stage art through performances and teaching activities. It is with the positioning of being "the classic performance platform of theatre culture, the experimental performance platform of exploring the contemporaneity and the academic exchange platform of spreading the art of theatre" that the STA Experimental Theater is ready to set out and embark on the new journey.
90 days ago, the leaders of STA and the relevant persons-in-charge from the Performance Center, the State-Owned Assets Office, the Infrastructure Construction Division and the Art Development Company conducted a comprehensive survey of the stage and auxiliary space of the STA Experimental Theatre, and held an onsite meeting at which they discussed the existing problems and put forward higher requirements.
88 days ago, according to various instructions, the STA Experimental Theater focused on the establishment and development of systems, talent team and safety assurance, as well as the re-planning and re-utilization of space. The STA Experimental Theatre will be built into a "real time" rehearsal platform and an "exploratory" experimental theater, taking the mirror frame like stage of the experimental theater as the core and putting in a series of specialized labs, such as the new vision stage space lab, new media lighting intelligence lab, lighting offline programming lab and 3D printing lab etc. The theatre management and STA’s teaching work will be deeply integrated, featuring teaching integrated theatre and theatre integrated teaching. In the future, the theatre staff and students will not only be the managers of theatre and the executors of performances, but also the participants of creation. At the same time, the theatre staff will not only be the executors of performances, but also the tutors of professional practice.
45 days ago, in order to activate the audience's experience of the STA Experimental Theatre, Chen Ye, a teacher of visual communication design, was invited to redesign the logo of the STA Experimental Theatre.
Ten days ago, with the strong support of the Logistic and Security Division of STA, the newly contracted property management company and security company successively entered the theatre.
Now, with the COVID-19 prevention and control becoming normalized, the flame of theatre is being rekindled. We are looking forward to the STA Experimental Theater becoming seething again after having been quiet for several months, and are looking forward to the lights in the theater lighting up the eyes of everyone who loves theatre.
On 13 June, “Nurse’s Diary”, the first large-scale original drama on fighting COVID-19 ", will be premiered in the STA Experimental Theatre, paying homage to the medical workers, to the spirit of fighting COVID-19, and to the hard-won good life.
You are waiting for the return of the STA Experimental Theatre, which in turn is also waiting for you!
