A scene from Qingdao Song and Dance Theatre’s Red Sorghum. Image supplied.
The first major program announcement for the 2014 OzAsia Festival has been revealed as Qingdao Song and Dance Theatre Company’s Red Sorghum, based on the 1986 novel by Shandong Province’s Nobel Prize winning author Mo Yan.
Described as ‘an exquisite dance drama’ and ‘a touching tragedy of a nation’s collective destiny’, the production, which explores the travails of a group of villagers during the Second Sino-Japanese War, won this year’s Wenhua Prize -China’s Ministry of Culture’s highest award for professional arts.
