Performances include an adaptation of Zhang Yimou 's film '' Raise the Red Lantern '' by the National Ballet of China ; a modern dance collaboration by companies from Beijing , Guangdong and Hong Kong ; and a presentation by the Beijing People 's Art Theater of '' Teahouse , '' Lao She 's 1957 play chronicling the fall of the last imperial dynasty to the rise of Communism as experienced by the patrons of a Beijing gathering place .