The New London Theater was partially demolished and rebuilt to create a giant playground for cats to perform. As soon as we stepped into the theater, these sets surrounded us and even extended to the second floor of the auditorium. The stage designer John Napier has created a large space, bringing the audience into an almost dreamy environment composed of real objects, making them feel slightly dizzy from the beginning and perhaps making them guess. What happens here and how.

When discussing arranging the stage scene for "Cats", they believed that they must first create an atmosphere. This atmosphere affects the audience before the performance begins. This cannot be accomplished on an arched stage with traditional stage design. They searched for many theaters, and finally found one with a revolving stage and an adjustable number of seats based on the design. John Napier designed an image of a cat leaping from the script onto the stage to create an atmosphere. Create a sense of intimacy between the cat and the audience. This feeling is stronger than other ordinary dramas. And more than that, it's about humor and surprise. They transformed the stage of the New London Theater and added a finger-shaped extension stage to its front end, making the stage deep into the audience, and created some hidden entrances and exits to achieve novel and interesting effects. Audience seats have also been adjusted. No one in the audience was more than sixty feet from the stage, and sometimes people were even close.

He started stage design work in November 1980 and began to try to design a very vivid gathering place for cats. This place must have enough space for cats to dance. It was ultimately designed to be a garbage dump with a small playground. The dump is three times larger than life and contains huge trash cans, abandoned cars, solid tires, bicycles, used toothpaste tubes, worn out Christmas ornaments and lots of trash. Cats use these waste materials on the ground to perform various impromptu performances during performances, making their storytelling more lively. John Napier and his team began designing and making the stage five weeks before the performance. The initial work was to remove half of the audience seats and then remodel the stage piece by piece. Most theater designers and teams can usually go out and buy some necessary tools or temporary props when designing a stage, but "Cats" does not. Although many props may seem like waste we throw away every day, in fact most of the props are Customized in a special way.

John Napier designed the cat costume based on T.S. Eliot's original poem, combining cat and human elements. Each cat has unique facial makeup that highlights their features. For example, the rich cat Bustoff Jones looks like a talented aristocrat at first glance, but most of the costumes are very natural, flexible and easy to move. For a play that is famous for dance, this costume quality is extremely important. (John Napier)

Theatre: Fantasy and absurd performance scenes, allowing the audience to have close contact with the "Cat Kingdom"

Before "Cats", musical performances were all Imprisoned on the stage, the performance of "Cats" completely broke the boundaries between the stage and the auditorium. During the residency performances in London's West End and New York's Broadway, the entire theater was renovated from the entrance to the stage, making the audience feel astonished as soon as they entered. It's like being in a giant garbage dump. Not only are you faced with a stage full of oversized props, but you also often find spider webs of props, giant caves, etc. on the seats. Let the audience feel the chaotic and bizarre state of the cat world immersively before the performance begins.

Although it is a touring group, it is impossible to completely transform the theater into a large garbage dump for this Xi'an performance, but the audience will see oversized toothpaste, sneakers, wheels, etc. on the stage without any discount. All the props are enlarged based on reality, making the audience feel as if they are the size of a cat. At the same time, the actors who play the group of cats will also be like the resident version, not limited to the stage, but shuttle among the auditorium, suddenly appearing next to the audience when they are not aware of it.

Technology: 100% quality-guaranteed dazzling stage design

In addition, "Cats" invested heavily in the use of sound, light, electricity and other modern technological means to create dreamlike The stunning stage design has a strong audio-visual impact. From their seats, the audience can see the giant garbage pile where cats move. There are more than 1,500 toothpaste rinds, broken dishes, bad credit cards, Coke cans, abandoned cars and other kinds of garbage piled on it, allowing the audience to truly immerse themselves in the cat environment. world.

Big shoes falling from the sky, giant sewer openings, and a cat corridor leading to heaven. These large-scale props are fully electronically controlled to create jaw-dropping visual effects. I believe that "Cats" will bring Xi'an audiences an audio-visual feast that will never disappoint.

The successful introduction of the drama "Cats" is the result of Qujiang Performance Group's successful operation of "Happy Boys", "Beauty", "42nd Street", "Lang Lang New Year's Concert", large-scale performances since last year Another major step after a series of large-scale performance activities such as the Qinqiang symphony poem and painting "Dream Back to Chang'an" is that Qujiang Performance Group fully relies on Qujiang National Cultural Industry Demonstration Zone to implement the major strategy of "bringing in" and integrate with the international stage. landmark event.