{"id":5290,"date":"2025-04-24T16:37:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T16:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citf.lk\/?p=5290"},"modified":"2025-07-24T16:42:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T16:42:32","slug":"the-nightingale-china-26th-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citf.lk\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/the-nightingale-china-26th-august\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nightingale &#8211; China &#8211; 26th August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>26th August<\/strong><br><strong>The Nightingale-China<\/strong><br><strong>Directed by Sergey Grishin <\/strong><br><strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the empress&#8217;s perspective, the play explores her pursuit of power, wealth, and beauty, and her eventual realization of freedom and true beauty. Combining the traditional Chinese story &#8220;The Nightingale&#8221; with existential themes, it delves into deeper philosophical questions. The nightingale&#8217;s song symbolizes beauty and the quest for freedom and life&#8217;s meaning. The play is divided into four parts: imprisonment, loss, awakening, and return. The empress imprisons the nightingale in a golden cage, seeking eternal beauty through material means. When the nightingale stops singing, a mechanical nightingale is used, offering perfect but lifeless beauty. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-1 wp-block-gallery alignleft has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"533\" data-id=\"4648\"  src=\"https:\/\/citf.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/citf3-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4648\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When death arrives, only the real nightingale&#8217;s song moves it, prompting the empress to understand that true beauty and freedom cannot be bound by material things. She destroys the cage, turns her throne into a forest, and awaits the nightingale&#8217;s free return. The nightingale&#8217;s song ultimately signifies the return of freedom and beauty.\t<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<br><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/tickets.lk\/EventDetails?eventId=4119&amp;name=CITF%20Aug%2026%20-%20Medea%20Voice,%20The%20Nightingale,%20A%20Journey%20of%20Despair&amp;summary=null&amp;tagLine=null\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/citf.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/tc.jpg\" width=\"800\" alt=\"citf\" title=\"citf\"><\/a>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the empress&#8217;s perspective, the play explores her pursuit of power, wealth, and beauty, and her eventual realization of freedom and true beauty. Combining the traditional Chinese story &#8220;The Nightingale&#8221; with existential themes, it delves into deeper philosophical questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citf.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citf.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citf.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citf.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citf.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5290"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/citf.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5298,"href":"https:\/\/citf.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290\/revisions\/5298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citf.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citf.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citf.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citf.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}