Professional Drama approaches the Cafe: a performance combined with the Cafe

According to Ma Yan, the screenwriter and director of this work, coffee drama is a way of combining theatrical performance with a coffee shop. It originated in Europe and has a history of more than 100 years. It uses the original decoration of the coffee shop as a dramatic dance, staging the story that takes place in the coffee shop.

One of the coffee dramas staged that night, "small Inn and Grand Hotel," is an approachable work about the relationship between father and son, in the traditional sense, father and son rarely communicate, but care about each other. In the form of mime, what the works want to express without language is a tacit understanding between father and son without words. The tacit understanding of quarrel, the tacit understanding of love and even the tacit understanding of thinking. So the creation chooses a lot of interaction between the simple and straightforward expression and the live audience. The simple story, from shallow to deep, combined with the body vocabulary of the body drama, the poetic nature of the mime and the silent interactive feedback with the audience, finally presents a humorous and serious topic, a tearful but terrifying work.

As the first person of domestic coffee drama, Ma Yan also told reporters why he introduced coffee drama into China. Ma Yan said that it is mainly because of its novel form and strong interaction. He believes that art is not superior, coffee drama can make the drama civilian through full interaction with the audience, can let people who do not watch the drama come into contact with this art form, so as to attract them to the theater to see the play.

The audience was still impressed by the performance for less than an hour. In order to meet the needs of the audience, the actors arranged two plays a night. The second urban love drama, "the Big leftover Man," presents a courtship story of an older leftover woman. With the unfolding of the story, the "stalks" of urban women's courtship are exposed one by one. The heroine, will choose the dating place in the coffee shop, the same scene, the same beginning, the same strange atmosphere, coffee drama, in an artistic way to reproduce the past and future that we do not want to look directly at. When thoughts crisscross at the crossroads, the heroine in the play finally comes to her true love at Wulitou and the staggered street corner.