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The Fifth Beijing International Drama Festival
Throughout ten years, the music drama has been performed over 4000 times, and
its box-office receipts have exceeded a hundred million dollars.
"I Love You" is a romantic and joyful drama. It depicts the love and marriage
between different men and women in a busy city; they thirst for love but usually
encounter embarrassment. In this drama, the fancy scenes will present delightful
but profound implications to audiences to help them finding their own characters
in the drama, leading them to treasure their life and the people they love or be
loved.
In recent years, as the music dramas "Sound of music", "Les Miserables",
"Cats", "The Phantom Of The Opera" and "Snow Wolf Lake continuously premiered in
Shanghai, music drama is not strange to the audience. But "I Love You" is a
diminutive drama that performed just by four actors, the highlight is
accompanied by piano and violin, and the theme songs are popular, which make
drama more novelized to the audiences. The fashionable elements added into the
delightful and humorous plot make the drama gaining a wide popularity.
¡¤Drama "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
This drama is an adaptation of the American slave story Uncle Tom's Cabin,
written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Stowe's novel tells the story of three slaves, Tom, Eliza, and George, who
start out together in Kentucky but make different lives. Eliza and George, who are getting married
but owned by different masters, managed to escape to free territory with their
little boy, Harry. However, Tom is not so lucky; he is taken away from his wife
and children. Tom is sold first to a kind master, Augustine St. Clare, but then
to the fiendish Simon Legree, who ends his life.
The characters of Uncle Tom, Little Eva, and Simon Legree have all become
legendary characters in American culture. Often called sentimental and
melodramatic, Uncle Tom's Cabin nevertheless endures as a powerful example of
moral outrage over man's inhumanity to man.
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