Recently, the humanistic new Huai opera "Leaving Immortals Between Paper", created by the national first-class screenwriter Guan Yancao and directed by the second-level director Wu Jiasi, was grandly staged in Zhou Xinfang's theater space, with the famous critic Mao Shi'an as the artistic director, the Huai opera performance artist Liang Zhongping as the performance director, and the Shanghai Huai Opera Troupe's outstanding young actors Lu Xiaolong, Gu Xinyu and Gao Ting starring.
The drama takes the young creators of the Shanghai drama industry as the team, and a large number of post-85 and post-95 actors of the Huai Opera Troupe appear collectively, and experts and audiences can't help but shout after watching it: Huai Opera has its own successor! As soon as the drama was launched, it was unanimously praised by leaders, experts and audiences inside and outside the circle, and the response was strong.
As a humanistic new Huai opera that integrates realism and romanticism, "Leaving Immortals Between Paper" for the first time puts the image of Pu Songling, the author of "Liaozhai Zhiyi", a Qing Dynasty scholar, onto the opera stage, filling in the gaps, showing his difficulties and situations in real life from a unique perspective, and telling the story of Pu Songling's life of being bumpy and poor but keeping his heart. He shuttles back and forth between reality and illusion, and the injustices and frustrations suffered in reality are soothed by the companionship of the fox fairy in the illusion. In the confrontation with Wang Zifang, in the relationship with Qingfeng, and in the oppression of his father's feudal etiquette, Pu Songling struggled.
The play contrasts and blends his spiritual world, that is, the literary world, with his real world, and portrays the pain of a literary scholar wandering in books and scientific expeditions, as if wandering in the reality and spiritual world, and portrays the character of Pu Songling, who is the same as the Russian Chekhov as the "world short story master", and praises his noble integrity of not following the tide and climbing the tide.
It is reported that the troupe has unique creations and innovations in various aspects such as actor performance, singing design, stage design, costume props and so on. The director makes good use of the stage installation, selectively and skillfully combines the stage and lighting, changes the rendering, broadens the boundaries on the stage, directly shows the real world and the ghost fox world in front of the audience, and vividly depicts Pu Songling's struggle in it.
The stage is presented like Pu House in the book, showing Pu Songling and the book, with the house, with the fox fairy to spend a lifetime but rest in this house, this book, the inner feelings of this fox fairy, whenever the fox demon strolls on the stage, it seems to follow Pu Songling into the book world of "Liaozhai Zhiyi". Such a setting is a great test of the actor's skill, the young actor Lu Xiaolong, who plays Pu Songling, switches freely between the two states, maintaining enough dramatic tension and full of mental state, especially in a large section of the near finale, the pitch is full of energy and full of energy. In today's environment based on realistic themes, "Leaving Immortals Between Papers" has greatly enriched the types of forms of newly compiled operas, and in terms of grasping the overall style, it not only strives to maintain the inherent simplicity of Huai opera's vocal cavity, but also shows the stretching and atmospheric character of Haipai Huai opera, which perfectly highlights the artistic charm of this drama.