Zhang Wu

Acting as a Stage Designer, he has devoted himself to Chinese contemporary drama stage design creation in recent years. Graduated from the Central Academy of Drama and obtained a master’s degree, he is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Stage Design, National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts.

By virtue of his main works, he was once awarded with the Wenhua Award on the 9th China Art Festival in 2010, the 2012 Excellent Project Award of the Ministry of Culture, the Wenhua Award of the 10th China Art Festival and the Wenhua Single Award for Stage Design, the Five-One Project Award of Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China in 2014, and the Best Stage Design Award of 2018 Chinese Theater Awards.

His papers published include “The Exhibition of Stage Design Works”, “The Regional Aesthetics of Stage Design”, “To Facilitate the Monumentality of the Stage Design”, “Visual Effect Guiding the Theatre Development”, “Creation Method Determines the Style of the Work”, “Common Questions about Stage Design” and “The Changing Prague Quadrennial & the Demand for Our Changes”, while his monograph published includes “Guiding Vision”.

Adapted from Lu Yao’s namesake novel, drama <World of Plainness> presents a panorama of people’s mundane, hard and toilsome lives in Northern Shaanxi during the major historical process of the 70s and 80s

Novel <World of Plainness> was first published in Dec. 1986. It received the Mao Dun Literature Prize on Mar. 1991.

With two brothers, Sun Shaoan and Sun Shaoping as the main characters, through descriptions of intricate conflicts, the work depicts numerous ordinary people of different classes of that time. Work and love, setback and pursuit, pain and happiness, daily life and social conflict all intricately intertwined. The work is an intensive display of what ordinary people have.

张武

近年来致力于中国当代戏剧舞台美术创作的舞台设计师，毕业于中央戏剧学院并获硕士学位，现中国戏曲学院舞台美术系副教授。
主要作品：曾获2010年第九届中国艺术节文华大奖、2012年文化部精品工程奖、第十届中国艺术节文华大奖及舞台美术文华单项奖、2014年中宣部五个一工程奖、2018华语戏剧盛典最佳舞台美术奖。
发表论文：《舞台美术设计作品的展示》、《舞台美术地域性审美》、《让舞台美术具有纪念碑性》、《视觉引导戏剧发展》、《创作方法决定作品样式》、《舞台美术100问》、《变化着的布拉格四年展，不该静止的我们》。

专著：《引导视觉》。

《平凡的世界》根据路遥同名长篇小说改编，全景式地展现了七八十年代陕北地区普通人在大时代历史进程中平凡而又曲折的人生道路。

小说《平凡的世界》1986年12月首次出版，1991年3月，获中国第三届茅盾文学奖。

话剧《兰陵王》
中国国家话剧院
2017年17月首演
舞台设计：张武
编剧：罗怀臻
导演：王晓鹰
灯光设计：邢辛

全剧从北齐名将兰陵王的传奇故事发展出全新的情节，将兰陵王设置成一个因目睹父王被害而用女儿态掩藏真性情的柔弱王子，齐后为唤回兰陵王的男儿血性，交予他先王遗物——神兽大面，戴上大面的兰陵王神奇般地平添雄伟气概，在战场上所向无敌，却也同时走到冷酷无情、暴虐可怖的人性另一个极端。最终，齐后用母性的牺牲帮助兰陵王告别迷途，回归本我。全剧用艺术象征的方式，讲述了一个关于“灵魂与面具”的寓言，体现对悲剧命运的观照，引发观众对于人性、本心的思考和探讨。