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About Cooking A Dream

It takes a minute to recite a beautiful Tang poem,

An hour to cook a pot of fragrant millet,

A century to experience the ups and downs of life,

And a millennium to conceive the depth of Chinese philosophical spirit.

Lu(卢生), a young farmer and scholar who dreams of fame and fortune, meets a Taoist priest named Lv in an inn while taking shelter from a sudden downpour. While waiting for the storm to pass, the innkeeper brews a pot of millet and Lu falls asleep on the priest’s magical pillow, entering a dream world. He experiences a full life where he passes the imperial examination, enjoys wealth and fortune, and spends his final days in poverty and loneliness. He wakes up in despair—the innkeeper’s millet still simmering on the stove—realizing it was all an empty dream.

 Inspired by the legendary Tang Dynasty novel A Story of a Dream, Cooking A Dream explores the popular Chinese proverb that says that glory, honor, and wealth are nothing but shadows.

 A mesmerizing fusion of traditional Chinese Opera elements and contemporary theatre, the production premiered at the French Festival d’Avignon in 2011 with 24 performances and was well-received by audiences worldwide.

About New National Opera

In the 1920s, a group of Chinese students who had studied in Britain and America initiated the “Chinese National Drama Movement”. To look into its essence, as Yu Shangyuan explained in his book, they aimed to create “Chinese plays performed by Chinese people with Chinese materials for Chinese audiences”, which is what they called “Chinese National Drama”.

Nearly a century later, this aesthetic understanding still has its practical significance. Director Huang Ying followed the predecessors’ perspectives, constantly digging into “Chinese materials”, refining “Chinese methods”, and expressing “Chinese thoughts”, gradually exploring the stage presentation of “New Chinese National Drama”.

In 2011, Huang Ying’s first new national drama “Cooking A Dream” was born and premiered at the Festival d’Avignon, one of the three major international theatre festivals in the world, and was highly recognized. Afterward, as an artistic example of Eastern philosophy, “Cooking A Dream” as a representative of Chinese theatre, visited Britain, France, Germany, South Korea, Singapore, and other Eurasian countries. While watching the ancient story, the new national drama refreshed the audience.

About Full Show Lane Studio

Full Show Lane Studio is a theatre studio founded in Beijing, China. Director Huang Ying, one of the most renowned Chinese theatre directors, is the studio's lead artist. Most of its members are senior teachers from famous art institutions such as Beijing Film Academy, The Central Academy of Drama, National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts and Communication University of China. Also Full Show Lane Studio has an international team of colleagues including artists from China, Japan, France, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Russia.

 Full Show Lane Studio is notable for its international technique of expression and its balance between commercialization and pure art. 

Since its establishment, the studio has been committed to paying attention to contemporary life, promoting traditional Chinese culture, and striving for innovation. Its works are full of humanistic care and social responsibility.

The studio has been retaining a pioneering spirit and produces various kinds of performances in multiple perspectives. By using elements from both traditional arts and modern aesthetics, their productions reflect modern Chinese society from an advanced point of view.

About director

Huang Ying

• Theatre Director
• Playwright
• Associate Professor & Master supervisor of Directing Department, Beijing Film Academy
• D. in Drama and Film Studies, Beijing Film Academy
• A in Directing, The Central Academy of Drama
• China National First-Class Director
• Member of China Theatre Association
• Member of Beijing Film Association
• Member of Beijing Theatre Association

Started writing and creating original plays in 1998. He founded Full Show Lane Studio in 2001. By 2022, he has written and directed more than 50 plays, including “New Beijing-Genre” original plays with a strong Beijing folk style such as “Jujube Tree”《枣树》, “Chop House”《卤煮》, “Chop! Chop! ”《马前马前！》, “Unfold the Year of 1990”《打开一九九〇》, “All was well”《福寿全》, “Voyage of Life”《我这半辈子》; physical play with humorous stories and ingenious forms such as “To Be Continued”《未完待续》; plays that initiated the exploration of new national drama in China such as “Cooking A Dream”《黄粱一梦》 and “Journey to the West”《西游记》; plays based on literary classics that have both avant-garde temperament and oriental aesthetic styles such as  “Miss Julie”《朱丽小姐》 and “Macbeth”《麦克白》; plays that integrated elements from multimedia, musical and other means, such as “Passenger in Dreamland.”《梦行者》, “When Love Blossoms”《花事如期》, “Life is Always Sweet”《点心》, “Crossroads” 《十字街头》.

Huang has been praised as the “Director of New Beijing-Genre Drama”, “The Most Creative Director in Asia”, “The Leader of Chinese Young Directors”, and “Chinese New Artist” since he started his career. He has won the Outstanding Director Award of the National Art Troupe Performance Season of the Ministry of Culture, the National Art Fund Young Art Creation Talent Support.

And his works have won the “Five One” Project Award of the Central Committee of the League, the Drama Award of the National Art Troupe Performance Season of the Ministry of Culture, and other awards. Among all the contemporary theatre directors, Huang is an artistic creator who has both foundations of Chinese traditional art and a broad international perspective.