Terracotta Warriors is an Action-Musical that explodes onto the stage with epic sets and lavish costumes. The audience will marvel at the dance, music and action that is used to tell a story of power and lust, of betrayal and forbidden passion. The final climax of the Dance of the Terracotta Warriors is a theatrical event to be remembered! Terracotta Warriors won 2007 International Performance Award from China Association of Performing Arts (CAPA).

Produced in 2004, Terracotta Warriors took North America by storm during its 72-performance inaugural world tour. The 2-hour long journey through the life of one of the most well-known historical figures in all of China represents the most astounding presentation of Chinese performing arts in the west over the course of human history.

Since its premiere in Vancouver three years ago, Terracotta Warriors has been performed on stage over 120 times and enjoyed by over 128,000 audiences across North America.

The incredible story of Terracotta Warriors combines extravagant dance and songs with spectacular martial arts in an unprecedented fashion in thie Action-Musical. Adapted from historical accounts of the life of Qin ShiHuang, the first Emperor of China [crowned in 221 B.C.], the story portrays the fantastic events of the Qin Dynasty, shown through the eyes of his beloved concubine and scheming eunuch. As the most indredible Chinese historical facts are revealed on stage against a background of epic sets and lavish costumes, the audience will marvel at the dance, music, and action used to tell a story of power and lush, betrayal and forbidden love. With a cast of over 80 outstanding dancers, martial artists, and acrobats from China, this spectacle will dazzle the audience with the kind of lavishness and scope that goes beyond traditional theatre.

Battles and conquest, forbidden love, burning of books, live burial of scholars and even the building of the Great Wall end with a final climax of the Dance of the Terracotta Warriors. The audience will marvel at the dance, music and action used to tell a story of power and lust, of betrayal and forbidden passion. It's a theatrical event to be remembered!

Synopsis

The ghost of the First Emperor, Qin ShiHuang, revels amidst his legacy of warriors.

Qin army defeats the army of the state of Qi. The King of Qin is triumphant; he is now crowned as the First Emperor in a glorious ceremony. Zhao Gao was a childhood friend of the Emperor who was castrated to become his assistant and confident. He new leads six concubines intot he imperial chambers to seduce the Emperor. The beautiful and favourite Meng Ying is chosen.

The Emperor celebrates the unification of currency, language, weights and measure, roads, and irrigation systems. The Emperor revels in his power. But the eunuch Zhao Gao enters to expose a conspiracy against the throne. The sex-starved middle-aged Queen Mother is engaged in a torrid sexual escapade with Lu Bu Wei, the conspirator. Soldiers interrupt the passionate affair and Lu is immediately arrested and sentenced. For his crime against the State, Lu is executed by the use of five hourses. The Emperor awakens from a dream delirious. He is obsessed by the image of Confucius and the ghostly admonishment causes the Emperor to become even more paranoid. On palace grounds, conscripted peasants are trained into the invincible Qin army.

Zhao Gao leads Meng Ying to rendezvous with her fiancée, Yang Ming, in the countryside. Soldiers interrupt their romantic interlude, and drag Yang Ming away. Artists demonstrate their skills in the town square. Qin soldiers demand surrender of all weapons, and a battle ensues. Confiscated weapons are thrown into incinerators. From the molten metal, giant statues are created to celebrate the glory of the Qin realm.

Three separate assassination attempts on the Emperor are depicted sequentially. The Emperor is obsessed by the fear of death. Zhao Gao presents him a dreaded jade funeral mask. The Emperor's nerves are shattered by the reappearance of the ghost of Confucius. He consults priestesses in the search for immortality. In the world's first Cultural Revolution, books are burned and scholars are buried alive. Laborers are hard at work building the Great Wall. Meng Ying arrives to visit her fiancée Yang Ming, now a conscripted laborer. Qin soldiers again interrupt their passionate encounter.

Back at the palace, Meng Ying pleads for her lover's life, in exchange for her loyalty to the Emperor forever. There are widespread uprisings against the Emperor's forces all over the country. Soldiers bring in the body of Yang Ming. Meng Ying is overwhelmed by sorrow and commits suicide by hanging. The Emperor has a nightmare about a sea-god blocking his search for the elixir of life. He goes on an ocean rampage to kill a giant sea creature. Soon, he dies on account of a mysterious illness. Zhao Gao takes revenge by dumping the imperial coffin full of foul-smelling dead fish. Both the Emperor's death and the symbolic and vengeful act allow Zhao Gao to be liberated and transformed. At the funeral, some concubines will be buried alive with the Emperor.

In the afterlife, ghosts of terracotta warrior statues march forward. The ghosts of Emperor Qin, Yang Ming, and Meng Ying appear as equals, and the Emperor is mocked. The lovers triumph in ghostly celebration.

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