110 years ago, Zhang Jian, a famous industrialist and educator in the late Qing Dynasty of China, and his brother Zhang Jian founded Tongzhou Hospital in Jiangsu. After 110 years of long years, the Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University (referred to as the Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University) still silently guards the health of the people, highlighting Mr. Zhang Xiao's concept of "charity with macros", although it has been a hundred years, it has never lost its color. In this 110-year-long river of history, there are the blue wisps of the road of Zhang Xiao and Zhang Xiao's entrepreneurship, the wind and rain of war, the spring breeze after the founding of New China, and the leading chapter of the 21st century.
Recently, the Tongda Affiliated Hospital has put these 110 years of glorious and bumpy history on the drama stage for the first time, the story of Zhang Xiao's establishment of a hospital and medical school in the form of literature and art for the first time, and the first time on the stage to show Zhang Xiao - the "uncle" of Zhang Xiao, who is almost obscured by history. In the somber sound of the cello, the epic drama "Tong Yi Soul" produced by the Affiliated Hospital of Tong Da and produced by Shen Yan Culture made Mr. Zhang Xiao take to the stage and carry out time and space dialogue with generations of "Tong Yi People", and the spirit of Mr. Zhang Xiao was still inherited and carried forward after a hundred years of "Tong Yi", how could it not move the viewers in the field and online?
Scattered and not scattered, Zhang Xiao's spirit runs through the whole play
Mr. Zhang Xiao is a model of patriotic entrepreneurs, without whom China's textile industry would not have developed so fast. As a scholar of the late Qing Dynasty and a Hanlin scholar, he resolutely resigned his official post and returned to his hometown, embarking on a new path that had never been seen before. In the mid-summer of 1926, his death caused thousands of people to grieve, and in the past hundred years, in nantong city near the river and the sea, the dust of history has not obliterated his achievements, and his name is still passed down by word of mouth. Zhang Xiao is a name that Nantong, a famous city in Jiangsu, cannot avoid no matter what, just like the Hao River water that cannot be bypassed in the north and south of the city.
"The strength of the country is based on autonomy, the foundation of autonomy, in industrial education, and those who cannot reach it depend only on charity." Zhang Jian spent his life pursuing the dream of a strong country. Running factories, opening agricultural reclamation, developing water conservancy, dredging transportation, from popularizing education to caring for the poor and sick, from leisure and entertainment to business finance, after a hundred years, the school he founded is still the temple that Xinxin students yearn for, and the hospital he founded is moving towards the goal of "top 100 dreams, new hospital dreams, and health care dreams". Gao Jianlin, producer of the drama "TongYi Soul", deputy secretary of the party committee and vice president of Nantong University, and secretary of the party committee of the affiliated hospital, said: "The achievements of the Tongda Affiliated Hospital today are inseparable from the foresight of the founders Zhang Xiao and Zhang Xiao brothers, the correct leadership of the Communist Party of China, and the continuous struggle of generations of Tongda Affiliated Hospitals. At the beginning of its establishment, Zhang Xiao and Zhang Xiao determined the advanced concept of hospitals and medical schools to go hand in hand with each other. It is their forward-looking vision that the century-old development of the hospital has always combined medical practice and teaching, and the dual identities of clinical experts and medical professors have been integrated, resulting in the emergence of generations of famous doctors and teachers. Shi Wei, producer of the drama "Tong Medical Soul" and deputy secretary of the party committee and president of the Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, said: "Inheriting and carrying forward the spirit of Zhang Xiao, deeply planting a unique hospital culture, inheriting the past and opening up the future, creating brilliance again, and presenting gifts to the 110th anniversary of the hospital with excellent results is the mission and responsibility of our contemporary Tongda affiliated hospitals." "Mr. Zhang Xiao's patriotic enthusiasm, feelings for the people, open concept, fearless courage, innovative will, sense of responsibility, hard work quality, integrity and character are endless in the blood of the people of tongda affiliated hospital, passed down from generation to generation, and have a vivid and three-dimensional presentation in the drama "Tong Medical Soul".
For screenwriter Ni Ge, the creation of the drama "Through the Healing Soul" is a pursuit and a tribute. Ni Ge is a person who studied medicine, as the executive vice chairman of the trade union of the Tongda Affiliated Hospital, he loves to wear a cheongsam, is good at playing the guqin, and loves literature, but he never thought that he could one day become a drama screenwriter, and he never thought that he could put the story of Mr. Zhang Jian's founding of the hospital that he admired all his life on the drama stage. The historical materials about Mr. Zhang Xiao were so vast that Ni Ge plunged into the ancient paper pile, approached Zhang Xiao, listened to Zhang Xiao, tiptoed up, and touched the height of Zhang Xiao's soul. In less than two hours of drama, how to show the past of Zhang Xiao and Zhang Jian's founding of the hospital, and at the same time present the hundred years of tongda affiliated hospital? Ni Ge was confused and hesitated, but she finally found that although Mr. Zhang Xiao had already entered history, his spirit still inspired generations of "general doctors". Therefore, Ni Ge used the pen in his hand to "dissect" the cross-sections of the history of each hospital, so that generations of doctors crossed time and space, launched a spiritual dialogue with Mr. Zhang Xiao on the stage, and in the scattered drama structure, strung together a long-standing chronicle of the Tongda Affiliated Hospital, which was magnificent and magnificent, just like a stage prose that was scattered and not scattered.
In this stage essay, we see the original heart of Zhang Xiao and Zhang Jian brothers to open a hospital, see the courage of the first president Xiong Fulong to dissect the corpse in public, see the ancestor of parasitology, Hong Shilu, and others rush to the front line of the War of Resistance as if they were returning home, see the iron skeleton of Cao Shutian of the Emergency Electric Nursing School, see the heroic tenderness of the medical team fighting against the new crown epidemic in the new era, and see the generations of general doctors following the path pioneered by Mr. Zhang Xiao, not forgetting the original heart, going forward and following, and casting the unchanging soul of general medicine for a hundred years with blood and life.
The opening of this stage essay is a collective tribute to Mr. Zhang Xiao's distant shadow by the contemporary "general doctors" who rushed to Hubei to fight the epidemic in 2020. On February 5, Hou Yaling wrote in her diary: In the face of a rich breakfast, I only took a bite of the steamed bun, afraid of drinking water, and in the next four to six hours, going to the toilet will be an insoluble problem. On February 14, Zhu Zhihong wrote in his diary: Every night when he was tired and lying in bed, he would always think of the words of Director Gu Jun, the former captain of the expedition, "I will definitely bring the team members back, successfully complete the mission, and definitely bring back our team members with a lot of peace!" "In fact, we are just ordinary medical personnel, but when called, when we come, we will fight, and the war will be won." On March 6, Fan Chunlin recorded in his diary: Two hours of rescue in a race against the clock, still failed to take back the patient from the hands of the god of death, I was both guilty and depressed, the bus driver who sent us back to the dormitory sincerely said: Wuhan people thank you. Suddenly, my throat went out of my way. On March 11, Jiang Daishan wrote a diary: After 3 hours of rescue, in the isolated ICU, we once again blocked the scythe of the god of death, and all the doctors and nurses breathed a long sigh of relief. On April 16, Gu Jun wrote this diary: Secretary Gao specially called and conveyed the high praise of the province, he said that we are the pride of the Tongda Affiliated Hospital; it just so happened that today the hospital's hospital history museum started construction, he said that we are the present of history, writing the present, and what we did was enough to comfort our founder of the Tongda Affiliated Hospital, Mr. Zhang Xiao... A section of the diary of the "general doctor" who went to Hubei to fight the epidemic was almost unchanged by the screenwriter Ni Ge on the stage, and was given a solemn form by the Western song team by director He Minghui, leading the audience and the "general doctors" to explore together: Today's doctors fighting the epidemic, after all, are still only doing their duty in the prosperous world; and what kind of hope did Mr. Zhang Xiao have at that time, in a chaotic world, cut through thorns and thorns, and build an ideal country with his own strength?
Skillfully using music and light and shadow, the three gates flow through a hundred years of time and space
The script is like a design drawing, and no matter how beautiful the drawings are, the architect needs to turn the blueprint into reality. Yang Jing, who is the chief producer of "TongYi Soul", proposed that it must not be "country lion country dance", and a professional team must be introduced to produce the drama "Tong Yi Soul". As the chief producer, she said that she "supported two families with one hand", and the team introduced must have strong stage production capabilities to be worthy of the heavy trust of the producer. A few years ago, Yang Jing cooperated with Shen Yan Culture to create and rehearse the dramas "Dong Zhujun" and "The Place where soma Flowers Bloom", and the stage presentation of both dramas was recognized by the industry, so she strongly recommended Shen Yan Culture as the producer of the drama "Tong Medical Soul".
Shen Yan culture has not lived up to Yang Jing's love. He Minghui, co-founder of Shen Yan Culture, graduated from the directing department of the Shanghai Theater Academy and became the director of the drama "Tong Medical Soul", he plunged into the historical materials, carefully combed the materials with the screenwriter Ni Ge, carefully cut the story, and injected a fresh soul into the characters in the ancient paper pile, and each soul was related to Mr. Zhang Xiao's blood and breath; those old memories that entered history were structured through the professional techniques of drama, and the dramatic conflicts in that period gradually became ups and downs. The characters on the stage are also real. At the end of the curtain, Huang Sumei's two white-haired daughters, waddled onto the stage, walked to the actor Yang Wenting, who played Huang Sumei, and shouted "Mother" with tears. The audience did not know that Yang Wenting, as an executive director, only took the role of Huang Sumei two days before the performance, that is, she played the gentleness, restraint and kindness of Huang Sumei. Huang Sumei's daughter shouted "Mother" to Yang Wenting, is it not the success of the actor to shape the role, not the success of the director to control the script, control the stage, and control the actor, not the success of the drama "General Medical Soul"?
For He Minghui, it is highly artistic difficult to present the "cross-sections" of history in the script on the stage in one by one. He mobilized various means to tell the history of the origin and development of the Tongda Affiliated Hospital, slowly unfolding, just like a magnificent and beautiful picture. On the stage, light and shadow create a unique artistic space, and a cello plays a deep music, melodious and soothing, symbolizing the spirit of Mr. Zhang Xiao. The three gates representing the flow of time and space have changed step by step, and what has changed on the stage is different times and stories, while what remains unchanged is the "general medical soul" that has been inherited by generations of "general doctors".
Designing these three doors on the stage is quite a painstaking search for "image seeds". Tong Weilie, co-founder of Shenyan Culture and visual director of "Tong Yi Soul", faced with the script of the scattered structure, once fell into the dilemma of visual creation. "Healing the Soul" involves multiple time and space from 1911 to 2021, and the overlapping transformation between time and space, using the realist set commonly used on the drama stage, costly and not necessarily the effect is good. Presented in the popular virtual space? Although the script of "Healing The Soul" is flexible in time and space, the "cross-section" of each era is realistically depicted with a pen, and the freehand virtual stage beauty must be difficult to explain the specific time and space of the play. Tong Weilie and He Minghui repeatedly discussed, they excavated the seeds of stage image from the core of the script: in the play, Mr. Zhang Jian appeared as an image of a historical witness, and the process of history was nothing more than the walking of the clock, and the framed photo frame of the old photo was frozen in history again and again, and they tried to combine the two. This is why there are three gates that are now presented on the stage and rotate in an orderly manner, and can be changed from multiple angles according to the scenes of different time and space. The rotation of the three frames of different lengths also represents the rotation of the hands on the clock. By combining with the specific set props for each scene, an orderly stage change is formed. The final stage is very connotative and flexible, and director He Minghui also very cleverly presents each rotating change in front of the audience, sometimes like carrying, sometimes like building, sometimes like carrying a load forward, giving the audience unlimited imagination space.
The plum blossom award actor shared the stage with the healer and brought the emotions to each other and the audience
As early as 2017, Nantong Art Theater created the drama "Zhang Xiao", and Yang Jing, the producer and assistant director of the play, invited The 17th Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award winner Kang Aishi to star in Zhang Xiao. In this rehearsal of "The Soul of Tong Doctor", Yang Jing insisted that Kang Aishi could not play Zhang Xiao: "Teacher Kang is the best candidate to play Zhang Xiao on the drama stage. For Zhang Xiao, who was portrayed by Kang Aishi, Zhang Xiao's descendants also recognized it very much, and the audience in Nantong respected Kang Aishi who played Zhang Xiao on the stage because they loved Zhang Xiao and "loved the house and Wu". Kang Aishi loves fishing, and the owner of the fishing farm was not enthusiastic about him originally, but after watching the drama "Zhang Xiao", he regarded him as a close friend, not only resolutely refused to accept fishing fees, but also fished for big fish every time to make Kang Aishi return with a full load. In three years, he has acted in more than 70 dramas "Zhang Xiao", Kang Aishi has long been impressed by Zhang Xiao's personality charm, and often feels that he is Zhang Jian on the stage, "You have me, I have you", and the actor and the role are integrated. As soon as he heard that after playing the role of "industrialist Zhang Xiao", he could also portray "Zhang Xiao who founded a hospital and a medical school" on the drama stage, Kang Aishi did not even read the script, immediately pushed off other acting tasks, and agreed to join the performance of "General Medical Soul".
In the drama "Tong Medical Soul", although Zhang Xiao is the soul character that runs through the whole play, there is only one scene in which Zhang Jian really has a dramatic conflict on the stage, and in that scene, in the face of Zhang Xiao, a big industrialist who "spends money faster than making money" and wears patch pants, his brother Zhang Xiao is gradually moved by his spirit from the initial incomprehension, so he joins hands with Zhang Xiao to run Tongzhou Hospital. In this scene, Kang Aishi, with his calm typhoon and solid line skills, has both shape and spirit to set up a worried Mr. Zhang Xiao on the stage. Mr. Zhang Xuwu, the grandson of Mr. Zhang Xiao and former member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, believes that this is Zhang Xiao who lives in the heart of Zhang Xiao's family!
In addition to 8 professional actors such as Kang Aishi, director He Minghui selected 25 medical staff from the staff of Tongda Affiliated Hospital to participate in "Tongyi Soul", these "ordinary people" who have never appeared on stage to perform dramas, but in a very short period of time, they have integrated into the creative team, showing the high degree of professionalism of "Tongyi people". At the beginning of the rehearsal, Kang Aishi was also worried about the artistic performance ability of the group performance, and soon, he found that this group of "general doctors" who had been immersed and inspired by Zhang Xiao's spirit treated the stage as meticulously as they treated the operating table: "Sometimes, I feel that these medical staff are more brilliant than some of our professional actors!" When Wu Weiwei, a nurse at Tongda Affiliated Hospital, first started rehearsing, his legs were trembling and his heart was beating like a drum, but when he went on stage, "I seemed to hear Grandpa Zhang Xiao whisper encouragement in my ear more than once." The spiritual dialogue with Mr. Zhang Xiao on the stage made Wu Weiwei deeply feel that "the soul was baptized", and she had a hot "general medicine soul" like several generations of "general medicine people".
On the side stage, watching the group performances gaze at Zhang Xiao's resolute and reverent gaze, Yang Jing, the chief producer of "Tong Yi Soul", cried again and again: "Zhang Xiao is an artistic rich mine, literary and artistic works can express Zhang Xiao from different perspectives, but the theme of Zhang Xiao's hospital, the previous literary and artistic works are rarely involved, so the entry angle of the drama "Tong Yi Soul" is not lagging behind the predecessors, the solid script, the stage design in place, the starring and group performances tacit cooperation, making this drama particularly moving. ”
As a hospital, being able to produce and rehearse an original drama with professional quality is undoubtedly a commemorative milestone achievement for the cultural construction of Tongda Affiliated Hospital!
The hardest thing in the world is to understand
—— Notes on the creation of "Healing the Soul"
Ni Ge
It's been many days since the premiere of the drama "Healing The Soul", but there is still a lingering cello sound in my head.
The creative process of this play will be one of the most precious memories of my life. This happiness and satisfaction is no less than talking about a relationship, completely immersed in it, knowing that there will be an end to the day, but still hoping to come later.
As one of the main creators, the biggest benefit is to watch a complete rehearsal on the afternoon of the 19th, no walking audience, no reporter with headlights, and only intimate Fan Fan around. At the end of the rehearsal, the scene where Zhang Xiao, played by Teacher Kang Aishi, turned around and slowly waved to the crowd of followers, I ran in tears again, and in the blur of tears, I jumped on the stage and ran towards Teacher Kang, and Director He Minghui shouted from behind: "It's not over yet!" "But I was already holding Teacher Kang in tears. Teacher Kang caressed my back and let me cry bitterly, like the last child in the kindergarten waiting for the parents to pick me up, lying on the mother's shoulder.
The hardest thing in the world is to understand. A group of people who understand Zhang Xiao are very serious about making a play together, this understanding is a deep identification with the spirit, unconsciously conquered by his personality charm, moved by his great cause, and injected this strong emotion into the artistic creation, like a beam of light from the jade bottle, so that the whole play is warm and vivid. Director He Minghui wanted to change the script, and I said that it was no problem to change it casually. Because the director understands the screenwriter's intentions, the visual understands the director's aesthetics, and all the communication between the creators is incredibly smooth.
The script is the skeleton, the performance is flesh and blood, the choreography is the skin, the director is responsible for injecting the soul, and Zhang Xiao's actor Kang Aishi is the fixing star of this play. If you want to say how important he is, it is probably equivalent to the aorta. There is also the chief producer Yang Jing, equivalent to the pulmonary artery, and both of them are connected to the heart, determining the heartbeat of the whole play. Teacher Kang's one turn and one look back can shock the whole audience, and his performance is a walking textbook. When I went to pay homage to Zhang Jian's tomb, he said "uncle", and I immediately burst into tears, or he was not playing Zhang Jian at all, and part of his life was already there. Teacher Kang was invited by Yang Jing, and as a result, Teacher Kang dragged her to play a role, and even friends who were familiar with Yang Jing did not find out on the stage that the old female worker of the spinning mill who spoke "Wolf Mountain Brand" Mandarin on the stage was actually played by Yang Jing!
Executive director Yang Wenting's voice is like a golden apple falling into a silver net pocket, and only she can perform the innate goodness and beauty of Huang Sumei. After the performance, Huang Sumei's two daughters in their seventies ran onto the stage tremblingly and shouted "Mother" to her, which became the most moving scene of the day. There is also Yin Liqian's first dean Xiong Fulong, who is extremely personable, and it is rare to see a boy who looks so good and is not spoiled. Song Guanting's Cao Shutian was a surprise. Xiao Qiang's two roles also earned enough tears from the audience. I like the police chief and Commissioner Lu, two comic-like characters, which are the strokes of Director Ho. The rehearsal of the group performance was also a miracle, 25 people were selected from the more than seventy front-line employees who signed up, and they were able to rehearse every time. The diligence and understanding of the group performances made the director group particularly satisfied, but the hard work of physical guidance Luo Xue, walking between Shanghai and Tong, often tired to the hoarseness of the voice. I was touched by everyone's dedication and dedication, and we came together because of "TongYi Soul", and also read "TongYi Soul" together.
The leaders played a role in the creative process, and they gave me firm trust and support. Secretary Gao Jianlin and President Shi Wei are both authentic "general doctors" who have intersected with many characters in the play, and can especially understand the themes and emotions expressed in "The Soul of General Medicine". After the chief planner Ma Weidong, executive deputy secretary, discovered that Teacher Kang Aishi was actually the actor of Tian Futang in "Ordinary World", he was also a little excited. Without Secretary Ma's initial advocacy, there would be no play, and there would be no teacher Kang's performance. It's a bit of a "grass snake gray line, a thousand miles of veins". And all this is the best arrangement.
Author: Zhang Yu
Edit: Wang Bumi
Editor-in-Charge: Shi Wei
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