Jin
Chen
Featured Work
Cheng Lian and Bo Ya
The poetic drama Cheng Lian and Bo Ya tells the story of the young Bo Ya, who has grown weary of his official duties and resolves to rediscover music as a new path in life. He seeks out Cheng Lian, a renowned folk musician, to learn the art of playing guqin. However, Cheng Lian's teaching methods are extraordinarily intense; he shatters Bo Ya's cherished guqin, plunging Bo Ya into complete darkness and extinguishing his passion for music.
How will he navigate to find his opportunity? And what secrets does his legendary masterpiece, "High Mountain and Flowing Water," conceal?
A short video of the performance of Cheng Lian and Bo Ya at Guangdong Literary Museum, Guangzhou.
It is a reimagination of the story of Achilles as a female and Trojan War, deconstructing values of war, heroes, and females. It shed lights on the different cultural meanings between Pyrrah as a female and Achilles under the name of the greatest hero. It also shows another possible choice in times of conflicts and an alternative perspective of the making of history.
A short video of the performance of The Wreath of Achilles at Baiyun Library, Guangzhou.
Trailer of The Wreath of Achilles
'Hedda Gabler is the most extraordinary character of all Ibsen's plays, perhaps it is because she is Ibsen.'
“海达是易卜生全部剧作中最出色的人物，这或许是因为她就是易卜生本人。”
——哈罗德·布鲁姆
Trailer of Hedda Gabler
(written by Henrik Ibsen
adapted/directed by Jin Chen)