A roast duck shop, reflecting the world's colorful and five-flavored life, a Beijing drama, carrying customs and customs, wisdom and philosophy. From December 24th to January 9th, Beijing Renyi's 2021 grand finale "The First Floor of the World" opened its doors again. From Gu Wei and Yan Rui forming a new and old joint director team, to Wang Lei, Lei Jia, Yuan Yu and other young people starring, this 33-year-old "old building" has ushered in new owners and new guests.
As a well-deserved spectator drama of Beijing renyi, "The First Floor of the World" has been staged for 33 years this year, with a total of more than 500 performances. This work written by gold-medal screenwriter He Jiping, with its humorous and intelligent lines and full of vivid characters, writes about the warmth and coldness of human feelings and penetrates the ups and downs of the world. The classic script, coupled with the second creation of the director's performance, has made this play from 1988 to the present, through several generations of actors and often performed, not only in the field of editing, directing, acting respectively won the Wenhua Award, Plum Blossom Award and other drama awards, but also represented Beijing Renyi to perform abroad several times, becoming a golden business card of cultural exchanges.
Since its premiere in 1988, "The First Floor of the World" has been passed down by generations of actors and has become one of the classic preserved plays that best represent the style of the Beijing Renyi Drama School. This round of performances is starred by Wang Lei, Lei Jia, Yuan Yu and other young actors. Everyone confessed that they were standing on the shoulders of giants before setting off. "Because of the shaping of the predecessors, we can touch and feel more details of the characters." The actors said that by writing a biography of each character and experiencing life in a roast duck shop, these young actors who are far away from the era in the play have found the foundation for shaping the characters.
Wang Lei hopes that the Lu Mengshi he has portrayed is not a businessman who is in the limelight, but a professional manager, "He will also scratch his head and admit it." Actor Lei Jia described the character of Chang Gui as water, because he has been flowing between various people, playing a lubricating role, but occasionally stopping to find the fulcrum of life, and finally failing to find it, people will collapse with it. Yu Yan'er was defined by the actor Yuan Yu as the new woman of that era, "She is not attached to anyone, if it is not the shackles of the times on women, she can have a bigger stage." ”
"Can't be afraid of the height of the predecessors", director Gu Wei said, dare to inherit is the first step, after which each actor's understanding and creation must rely on continuous performance to achieve, "innovation needs the participation of the audience, because all our innovations are for the audience." ”