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Country’s first forest theater to start test run
From:Shanghai Daily  |  2019-10-01 08:29

The Nine Tree Art Center in suburban Shanghai’s Fengxian District, known as China’s first forest theater, will launch trial operations during the National Day holiday ahead of its official opening at the end of October.

The first top-level theater on the southern outskirts will present a children’s carnival between Thursday and Saturday. The Zebra Camp Children’s Forest Carnival will feature folk music, jazz, pop and folk songs at its indoor and outdoor theaters for children and parents.

The art center, covering 71,700 square meters in Nanqiao Town, is surrounded by an 800,000-square-meter forest that is home to a number of wild bird species, mainly egrets. The center has three indoor and two outdoor theaters.

The theater, a work by French architect Frederic Rolland, is designed to resemble a growing seed.

One of its leaves wraps around the main theater with 1,200 seats, while the other leaf covers 500-seat and 300-seat theaters. The indoor theaters feature state-of-the-art holographic sound systems.

Audiences can also sit on the lawn in the outdoor forest theater, or be surrounded by flowing water near the water stage.

A number of other performances, such as a stage drama, a classical music concert and a Polish opera will be presented during the trial, said Tian Fei, deputy general manager of the art center.

Construction was completed on the structure late last year.

It is hoped that the forest theater will become a major cultural landmark in Shanghai’s southern suburbs.

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