Théatre du Rêve Expérimental (薪传实验剧团) is a Beijing-based performance group. It is dedicated to produce avant-garde performance and film. Its founder and artistic director is Wang Chong

Wang Chong (director)

Wang Chong is an avant-garde theatre director and award-winning translator.He has studied theatre in Beijing, Honolulu, California, and New York, working with renowned directors Lin Zhaohua and Robert Wilson....

 (王翀), an award-winning director and translator. He has studied and worked with renowned directors Lin Zhaohua and Robert Wilson

Robert Wilson (director)

Robert Wilson is an American avant-garde stage director and playwright who has been called "[America]'s — or even the world's — foremost vanguard 'theater artist'". Over the course of his wide-ranging career, he has also worked as a choreographer, performer, painter, sculptor, video...

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Since its founding, Théatre du Rêve Expérimental has mounted 7 shows and has performed in China, Hong Kong, US, Canada, UK, and France. It is one of the most active touring companies from China and the youngest Chinese theatre group to tour internationally. e-Station, the original physical performance, was nominated for the best production of Mont-Laurier International Theatre Festival.

Style

The group does not limit its style to Eastern or Western theatre. Mask, Peking Opera, multi-media, performance art, Western postmodernism, and the harsh reality of Chinese society may emerge on the stage altogether, creating a unique experience for the spectators.

Productions

Title	Text	Time of Premiere	Tour
Central Park West	Woody Allen Woody Allen Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema...	2011, Chinese language premiere	Beijing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou
Hamletmachine Hamletmachine Hamletmachine is a postmodernist drama by German playwright and theatre director Heiner Müller. Written in 1977, the play is loosely based on Hamlet by William Shakespeare. The play originated in relation to a translation of Shakespeare's Hamlet that Müller undertook...	Heiner Muller Heiner Müller Heiner Müller was a German dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director. Described as "the theatre's greatest living poet" since Samuel Beckett, Müller is arguably the most important German dramatist of the 20th century after Bertolt Brecht...	2010, China mainland premiere	Beijing, Hangzhou, Avignon
The Peking OperaTION	N/A	2010, world premiere	Beijing, Shanghai
Crave Crave Crave or craving may refer to:* Hunger* A food craving* Craving , a psychological withdrawal symptom* Crave , a 2002 album by Cyclefly* Crave , a play by Sarah Kane* Crave , an R&B musical group...	Sarah Kane Sarah Kane Sarah Kane was an English playwright. Her plays deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture — both physical and psychological — and death. They are characterised by a poetic intensity, pared-down language, exploration of theatrical form and, in her earlier work, the use of...	2009, China mainland premiere	Beijing
Self-accusation	Peter Handke Peter Handke Peter Handke is an avant-garde Austrian novelist and playwright.-Early life:Handke and his mother lived in the Soviet-occupied Pankow district of Berlin from 1944 to 1948 before resettling in Griffen...	2009, Chinese language premiere	Beijing, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shanghai, London
The Vagina Monologues The Vagina Monologues The Vagina Monologues is an episodic play written by Eve Ensler which ran at the Off Broadway Westside Theatre after a limited run at AFRICA in 1996. Ensler originally starred in the production which was produced by David Stone, Nina Essman, Dan Markley, The Araca Group, Willa Shalit, Mike Skipper...	Eve Ensler Eve Ensler Eve Ensler is an American playwright, performer, feminist and activist, best known for her play The Vagina Monologues.- Personal life :...	2009, China mainland premiere	Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Changsha
e-Station	N/A	2008, world premiere	Beijing, New York, Quebéc

External links

• theatreRE.com Official site
• Press Coverage