The Chinese New Year Express

A group of Chinese people comes from every direction and will travel in all directions.

An express train gallops at full speed far across the vast North German Plain toward the spring……

Performance:

Edition: The Chinese Theater in Göttingen 2020

Genre: Stage Theater

Producer: Yumin Ao

Director: Zehong Hu

Playwright: Zehong Hu/ Yucheng Wang/ Zhao Zhao/ Yumin Ao

Assistant Director: Ying Sun

Make-up: Wenjing Xia/Simin Xu/ Xing Lin

Stage Manager: Xing Lin/ Yuqing Gao

Media: Siqi Zhong/ Ning Zhou/ Chengchen Lü/ Meng Wang/Xiao Yang

Cast:

Dejian Zhou (as Mr. Li)/ Yuchen Sun (Mrs. Li) / Yuan Gao (You Meng) / Lanxin Xue (Tian Tan) / Yuan Yan (Wen Bie) / Zehong Hu (a salesman) / Yi Yang (a passerby) / Lihua Ni ( a train announcer) / Shujie Yue and Yongqiang Zhu (train doors)

Chronicle:

The audience voted, and the Chinese New Year Express won the “most popular program” of the Chinese Spring Festival Gala in Göttingen in 2020. The Whole cast wrote an article titled “Post-show Review on The Chinese New Year Express,” which is published in Vol. 5 of the Ying Ming Theater journal.

Acknowledgment:

The Center for Modern East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen

The Chinese Students and Scholars Association in Göttingen

The Institute of Computer Science at the University of Göttingen

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