Thunderstorm
Set Design
ADC Theatre, Cambridge, 2024
Producer - Jiayao Jiang
Writer - Cao Yu
Director - Yizhen Wu
Technical Director - Angus Cha
Set - Yijing Chen
Costume - Anqi Fang, Yihan Wei
Projectionist – Blaise Mo, Molin Liu
Lighting - Shiyun Liang, Tungsten Tang
Photographer - Ada Su Tuna, Xinyue Ma
Adapted from the renowned play Thunderstorm by Cao Yu, often hailed as the ‘Shakespeare of the East’, this play stands as a milestone in the development of mature Chinese modern theatre.
‘All is submerged in the ruthless well of the cosmos.’
There emerges an icebound affair traced for thirty years, and there submerges a successional withering of love and desire. On a hot summer day, an unexpected woman returned with an erupted thunderstorm to Zhou’s residence looking for her daughter, and discovering her beloved girl involved with the family’s young master. The wheels of fortune rotate, reeling off every secret hidden beneath the luxurious house…
