All set for an epic rejuvenation

After directing the Peking Opera production of Red Cliff to resounding success, director Zhang Jigang would really like to take up a simple story for his next project.

But that is not to be with him being picked to helm another epic - Road of Rejuvenation - to be staged at the Great Hall of the People in October to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of New China.

Covering the period 1840 to 2009, this is the third musical being picked to celebrate the occasion, after East Is Red (1965) and Road of Chinese Revolution (1985).