A historical stage extravaganza — Chongqing 1949 — premiered in Chongqing on Thursday to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China.

The Chongqing 1949 Grand Theatre in Ciqikou ancient town, is one of the world's largest indoor theaters, at 89 meters long, 73 meters wide and 31.6 meters high. It covers an area of 25,000 square meters and can accommodate 1,497 people.

The theater has been specially rigged for the 70-minute show about a group of revolutionaries who were imprisoned in Baigongguan and Zhazidong — two secret prisons of the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) used to punish communist revolutionaries at the northern foot of the city's Gele mountains. The communists chose death rather than surrender under the enemy's interrogations and cruel torture.