Wang Chong is an avant-garde

Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....

 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

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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In 2008, Wang Chong founded Théatre du Rêve Expérimental

Théatre du Rêve Expérimental

Théatre du Rêve Expérimental is a Beijing-based performance group. It is dedicated to produce avant-garde performance and film. Its founder and artistic director is Wang Chong , an award-winning director and translator...

 (薪传实验剧团), a Beijing-based performance group. It soon became one of the most active touring companies in China. His works have been performed in China, Hong Kong, US, Canada, UK, and France.

Theatre Works

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 (play) Crave is a one-act play by British playwright Sarah Kane. It was first performed in 1998 by the theatre company Paines Plough, with which Kane was writer-in-residence for the year, at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh...	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, China mainland 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
The Arabian Night	Roland Schimmelpfennig	2007, Chinese language premiere	Beijing
Hamletism	William Shakespeare William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...	2006, world premiere	Honolulu, Beijing

Translations

Plays:

• Hamletmachine by 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...
  
  
• Crave by 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...
  
  
• The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
  Eve Ensler
  Eve Ensler is an American playwright, performer, feminist and activist, best known for her play The Vagina Monologues.- Personal life :...
  
  
• Electronic City by Falk Richter
• The Arabian Night by Roland Schimmelpfennig
• Father's Braid by Amnon Levy and Rami Danon
• Yalta Conference by Hirata Oriza
• Tokyo Notes by Hirata Oriza (co-translation)
• The Bedbug by Meng Jinghui (from Chinese into English)

Other:

• The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure For Writers
  The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure For Writers
  The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure For Writers is a popular screenwriting textbook by writer Christopher Vogler, focusing on the theory that most stories can be boiled down to a series of narrative structures and character archetypes, described through mythological allegory.Vogler based this...
  
  by Christopher Vogler
  Christopher Vogler
  Christopher Vogler is a Hollywood development executive best known for his guide for screenwriters, The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure For Writers.-Career:...
  
  
• "Theatre at Its Age of Acceleration" by Thomas Ostermeier

External links

• theatreRE.com Official site
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