w88 casino News Network (provided by the w88 casino of English)From May 13 to 15, 2022, the finals of the first "Friendly Neighbor Cup" National Shakespeare (China) Student Drama Festival, jointly organized by Nanjing University and Wuhan University, will be held in the form of a mixed online and offline performance. Students from the English College of w88 casino competed with five other plays from Wuhan University, Nanjing University, etc. that entered the national finals with their entry "As You Like It", and finally won the second prize for the best play in the university English group. Fan Xingyan, a class of 2019 student from the British Academy, won the best actress in the university's English category for her role as Rosalind, and Li Yuexia, a class of 2020 student, won the best supporting actress in the university's English category for her role as Celia.
The crew of w88 casino's "As You Like It" is composed of students from the British College. Starting from the summer of 2021, we will start to form a crew, start adapting the script, and conduct online rehearsals. After returning to w88 casino in the fall, I took the time to make rehearsals and make a competition video. Teachers Li Jun, Li Xiaochu, and Li Yuxia from the Basic English Department worked together and spent a lot of their spare time to provide guidance to the students. They also hired experts from inside and outside the w88 casino to provide guidance on performance and music for the participating plays. Although due to the impact of the epidemic, the crew unfortunately could not go to Wuhan University to participate in the competition and could not re-record the final video. However, according to the rules of the competition, they won multiple awards for their outstanding performance in the preliminary video.
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