The mirror-generated residency play Project Frankenstein, co-produced by Difficult to Satisfy Theatre Studios and Lake Yahua Theater Line, and produced by Studio 2332, has been performed 40 times since its premiere on November 18. During the three-week performance, the audience's enthusiastic discussion was stimulated for whether it was the setting of the dual perspective, the presentation of the mirror space, or the adaptation of the modernization of the story. In any case, this "unusual" play in the Asian mansion style deserves to be felt by the audience who maintains curiosity about the theater.
REPO
I would like to give the world a small theater in Amway, the form, the stage, the story I want to express are very new, and finally when I see the pieces of paper floating down in the sky, there will be a feeling of waking up from a big dream in another life, as if I have just woken up from a somewhat sad dream. @Cloud Drama Eutopia
Two separate theater spaces
Two narratives unfold from their own perspectives
The story comes together at the last minute
The middle wall rises slowly
In the ensuing "explosion" sound
The entanglement was brought to an end
But under those entanglements, the eternal question of loneliness
They are all still in their own minds
It's hard to be satisfied,
Mirror-mounted Residency Drama #Frankenstein Project Concept Film Released! "I am convinced that Victor's birth was just an accident, an irreproducible ... by chance. An unrepeatable "accidental" Two lonely and confused "people" Light, shadow, sound, words..... Overlapping on stage Listening to whom? And who do you believe? Mirror-mounted residency plays #Frankenstein Project#, with performances in progress in December.
Mary Shelley
"A modern adaptation"
I have always had only one criterion for novels, movies, dramas, music paintings, and other works: whether I can feel empathy, whether I can draw strength from them. After watching two shows, the sentence I remember most deeply is: you can't rely on others to resist loneliness, loneliness is eternal. The past year has made me more and more deeply aware of this saying: loneliness is always there. @Garlic vermicelli grilled eggplant
The story is based on Mary Shelley's novel of the same name, Frankenstein – The Modern Prometheus. This story, known as the "first science fiction novel", is actually a reflection and question about human beings themselves:
Do people have boundaries?
Can we trust reason 100%?
Or can we be sure that we are 100% "rational"?
There are already too many avant-garde views and misgivings in this "artificial man" story from more than two hundred years ago. While retaining the impact of those human questions, the script has also been modernized, incorporating many elements that combine the current context, and also aggravating some emotional renderings that are easier to hit people, throwing out the more urgent issues that people face today:
This giant city is like a cold machine that works day and night,
Devouring, encroaching, and cutting every individual,
How do we resist loneliness?
Is finding recognition and companionship the only way out?
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The actors are: Nie Zhengtong, Monday Nan, Xiang Zheng, Yang Jingkun, Xu Haobin
Stage design
"An outlier spatial taste"
Recently, the rare good drama, the interpretation of the original work is very interesting, the presentation is also very clever, and the use of space is extremely in place. @Li Lieyi
The moment you enter the theater, you will find that in the Asian Building, this space is really "outlier". Gorgeous stages, detailed sets, immersive, restorative stage design... These Asian mansions are "standard" on the stage of this play, and they are all missing. In its place are the huge experimental tables in the science section, a white cloth, simple experimental instruments; the wooden long tables in the artificial man section, and a few unknown wooden frames scattered... On one side is the suppressed discomfort, the sense of fear coldly fills the entire space, and on the other side is loneliness, loneliness, and the ever-spreading loneliness. All this reflects the inner world of the play:
Frankenstein, a gifted teenager
There is a deep loneliness in the heart
Originated from his mother, who died prematurely
Alienation from genius
He pieced together a man out of a dead body and brought him back to life—
But he wasn't ready for what to do with this manufactured life.
Artificial man, whose birth is accompanied by the shadow of death
His existence seems to be in opposition to "death and life"
Squeezed out a gap with difficulty
As soon as he came back to life, he bumped head-on into the deepest loneliness—
He can never be classified, nor is he of the same kind.
Victor Cyborg
The actors are: Zhou Jichen, Li Dongting, Sun Xinye, and Egg Egg
Parallel dual viewing angles
"Broken Faith"
A very good and rich work, the look and feel is not repeatable. Because this is a drama that tortures human nature by the order of watching the play, it is asking you: "Who is lying?" "I'll never know who's lying. @Pololo
Frankenstein and the artificial man, in two spaces separated by a wall, are immersed in their own memories, each holding its own opinion. Until the end, as the wall rises, the two spaces are opened, and the two stories are merged into one at the end, the real world and the memories under the subjectivity collide, and the true and false ghost are superimposed.
Unlike in the past, the two perspectives do not exist in the same space, but are "independent" on two stages between a wall, and the structure of the play has changed. The narrative from each perspective is complete, but at the same time biased. Because the person standing in the spotlight has all the "right to explain", and all his descriptions and narratives, can the audience accept them all? Before you see the show on the other side, it will be a question mark. And after having the experience of "preconceptions", and then watching the performance on the other side, will the "belief" of the previous night be disintegrated?
This is the two-point of view of the Frankenstein Project: the audience no longer has only one "protagonist" to follow, and the story that makes you believe tonight may be broken by another person who is "separated by a wall" tomorrow night; the story is no longer just a single line forward, but a parallel line of reference: the same story, different narrators, bring about a new kind of viewing pleasure, and also emphasize the assumption of the theater: always reminding the audience that this is just his side of the word, "Don't be too emotional!" ”
Mirrored exploration
"Gaze into the Abyss"
"The mirror is the abyss", the stage on both sides of the mirror is like the two sides of human nature, everyone will unconsciously beautify things in favor of the self when telling the past, the original face of the story may be through you to see the day, or the truth is not so important. @Have Dye and his good friends
Frankenstein: I bought you a mirror, who do you see?
Monster: Me.
Frankenstein: Yes, the person in the mirror is you.
Monster: I am you.
Frankenstein: You're not me, it's you.
What exactly is mirroring? The Frankenstein Plan made some attempts at defining this vacancy. But if you only point to the symmetry of the plot, it will inevitably be slightly weaker. The passage where the mirror appears in this intention, to Nietzsche's "gaze into the abyss", and to the name that Frankenstein gave to the creation himself... The implicit consistency of these two can be seen as a depiction of the mirror relationship: between Frankenstein and the artificial man, their dilemmas and struggles are similar. On the surface, it is their fear of loneliness and the desire of their kind, but more deeply, they are the escape from themselves and the invincibility of fate. One of them tried to resist death, but brought more death; one wanted to have the same kind, but he killed his friends by mistake...
The "abyss" is always there, and what is seen in the mirror is the most inescapable, oneself.
Actor vs character
Cass vs partner
The realization of all of the above depends on the 20 actors on the stage, Nie Zhengtong, Egg Egg, Huang Lanqing, Monday Nan, Sun Xinye, Yang Shangyou, Zhang Weilun, Zhou Jichen, Xu Haobin, Yu Xiaoxuan, Li Dongting, Xiang Zheng, Xu Yiqi, Yang Jingkun, through which every character and pair of character relationships are subtly different in the same. Each interpretation is an aspect of the character, injecting a new blood into the story itself. Looking back at the beginning of the rehearsal, everyone's sum of the characters (click on it)
The show continues
New cards unveiled
Script upgrade
Three weeks on, for the Frankenstein Project, is just the beginning. Thanks to everyone who came to listen to the audience of "Two Lonely People", every discussion, every feedback, will continue to nourish this story to grow in this space, will feed back every sharing, and continue to happen on this stage. It is also expected that more audiences will walk into the theater and meet it. In december and January, two new cards will be on stage, and the Script Upgrade Program for Project Frankenstein has been launched, so stay tuned.
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