A Slice of the Future
Early this year, one Beijing drama troupe had plans to adapt a story from an ancient Chinese novel into a modern play. While racking their brains trying to figure out how to embed modern elements into an ancient story, a consultant suggested they take the concept one step further: Why not set the play in the future?
The consultant, Zheng Jun, is a science fiction writer. Inspired by his idea, the team, mostly born in the 1990s, decided to set the story in the year 2677, 1,000 years after the novel’s completion. Using the same plot, they developed scenes set more than
