The recent TV series called "Niangdao" is very hot, using women as tools for succession, kneeling and licking feudal scum, no wonder some people joke "All 8102 years old, still show us such a drama, what hatred and resentment?" ”
If you can't stand this TV series, I suggest that you can go to the Pioneer Theater on the 5th floor of the Yihai Theater these two days and see Meng Jinghui's new play "Shakespeare and the Wolf", which will tell you that in fact, for the "can't stand" of "Niangdao", Shakespeare was already written in "Taming" 400 years ago.
To understand Meng Jinghui, "literature" is a key word, and his works always draw nourishment from the world literary constellation, and these artistic energies are transmitted to the audience. Shakespeare and the Wolf was an explosion of Shakespearean literature and world literature.
In addition to "Taming the Taming", Shakespeare and the Wolf also cleverly integrates dozens of Shakespearean classics such as "The Tempest", "King Lear", "Macbeth", "Romeo and Juliet", "Hamlet", "Othello", "Pericles the Prince of Thiel", "Anthony and Cleopatra", "Timon of Athens", "The Story of Winter" and so on, integrating dozens of Shakespeare classics such as Feminism, Patriarchy, Fate, Blind Love, Humanity and Animality, Moral Blind Obedience, Human propositions such as philosophy and poetry are on the stage of the new play.
Meng Jinghui "deconstructed Shakespeare with Shakespeare", and this sumptuous Shakespeare feast covered almost all of Shakespeare's literary art forms, creative themes and philosophical reflections.
So, if you also like literature, you can think of this theater trip as a chat with Meng Jinghui, and the topic is of course "Shakespeare".
Adapted from Shakespeare's classic Book of Taming, this brand new avant-garde tells the absurd story of a wealthy woman, Catherine, who is tortured by Petruccio from pursuit to collapse, and finally "loses herself" and really falls in love with Petruccio.
Unlike The Taming of the Taming, Shakespeare and the Wolf juxtaposes five rebellious women who are sweet, plump, spicy, seductive, and slightly bitter, and whose fates form the core of the narrative.
In addition to "Shakespeare", the play extracts the spiritual core of the shocking works of world literature and anthropology masters such as Byron, Bukowski, Beauvoir, Camelot, Desmond Morris and places them in the grotesque context of Shakespeare and the Wolf.
In the face of unbearable inner tearing, beauty and humility, laughter and tears, time and order are inseparable, unscrupulous, promiscuous skeletons, heartbreaking and comforting... In the end, "Shakespeare and the Wolf" combines character transformation, body memory, literary dreams, Shakespearean strange stories, black humor, etc., becoming a deep embodiment of contemporary theater, and it is also a discussion about women's topics.
The feudal dross of the "Mother's Way" style is not advisable, but to what extent will women consciously or unconsciously lose themselves in the face of workplace competition, emotional choices, and realistic choices for raising their children? Spending more than two hours walking into the theater to empty yourself should not waste more time than brushing the screen.
Like all of Meng Jinghui's plays, Shakespeare and the Wolf is also a "complete book of symbols" for avant-garde drama:
Stage art is abstract and concise, the mixing and matching of multimedia elements in the play is very experimental, experimental video short films, live DV shooting, and even live shooting out of the theater, will continue to extend the audiovisual tentacles in multimedia effects, to a greater extent to expand the drama in the audiovisual interaction of the attempt.
The cold and violent live electronic music is created and performed by the eb virus band, and the experimental electronic sound wave is always laid in the story, and with the development of the plot, it has a chemical reaction with theatrical performance and performance art, and constantly pushes the atmosphere of the scene to a climax.
Like it or hate it, if you haven't seen avant-garde drama, you can take this opportunity to feel it.
Time and place: From now on - November 4
Shanghai Yihai Theatre Pioneer Theater (5th Floor, No. 466 Jiangning Road)
Original: Shakespeare
Director: Meng Jinghui
Stage design: Hu Yanjun
Lighting design: Wang Qi
Sound design: Yan Guihe, Dong Yiwen
Styling design: Yu Lei
Music Director: Hua Shan
Composer: Hua Shan Wang Chuang
Lyricist: Mao Xuewen
Live band: eb virus Hua Shan, Wang Chuang
Drama Composition: Li Huayi
Stage Director: Chen Liang
Lighting Design Assistant: Chen Nan Lighting Execution: Karen Bian
Sound Engineering and Live Mixing: Yang Yi Zhang Xun
Stage Supervisor: Xie Zhongcheng Xi Shengli Installation: Zhao Yan Feng Jin
Costume Assistant: Xu Wentao
Makeup: Liu Jing Qian Lu
Actor ("Rhinoceros in Love") Original class): Mao Xuewen, Xiao Dingchen, Qi Lin, Wang Zixing, Cai Shujie, Ding Shaoyi, Wang Ying, Zhu Hao, Wang Ting, Wang Yao, Wang Xiahaozhe