"A good dangerous building, who is the host and who is the guest?" There are only three old houses, and it is better to be windy when the moon is bright. "This couplet hanging in the Fujude Roast Duck Shop is a portrayal of the fate of the people in the play, and it is not contrary to watching the change of generations of actors outside the play." From December 24th to January 9th, the Beijing Renyi New Year's Eve drama "The First Floor of the World" opened its doors again to welcome guests, and the treasurer and guests were replaced by new people, adding another taste of the years to this classic.
As one of the housekeeper plays of Beijing Renyi, "The First Floor of the World" has been staged for 33 years this year, and as of December 29, it has been performed 556 times. This work written by the famous screenwriter He Jiping, with its humorous and wise lines and full of vivid characters, writes the warmth and coldness of human feelings and penetrates the ups and downs of the world. Since its performance in 1988, several generations of actors have not only won the Wenhua Award, plum blossom award and other drama awards in the fields of choreography, directing and acting, but also performed overseas on behalf of Beijing Renyi several times, becoming a golden business card for cultural exchanges.
The iron-beaten Capital Theater and the iron-beaten classics all have to face the same actors as the flowing water, and the inheritance of each classic of Beijing Renyi is touching people's hearts. This time, the new lineup of young actors such as Wang Lei, Lei Jia, Zou Jian, Yuan Yu, and Li Po has also attracted much attention.
In the no. 1 dressing room of the Capital Theater, this time Wang Lei and Lei Jia sat in the seat, and they played Lu Mengshi and Chang Gui in the play respectively. This powder room, which I don't know how many big horns have accompanied, is now more and more open for this generation of young people. Saying that young is actually not young, Wang Lei and Lei Jia have been in Beijing for nearly twenty years, and after years of tempering, they have taken over this play from their predecessors.
Wang Lei recalled that the first time he watched "The First Floor of the World" was in 2000, when he was just admitted to the acting department of the Central Academy of Drama, "At that time, he thought that this play was very good-looking, with strong Beijing characteristics and taste, and I was very envious of the audience in Beijing who could see so many such good plays." "After entering the theater, he often watches his predecessors perform this play, and he is very familiar with this play. From the initial appreciation to the later imagination that if you can play one of these roles, to today's real lu Mengshi on the stage, the road is very long, "you have to go step by step in a down-to-earth manner, you can have a chance," Wang Lei said.
How to pass on the classics, every generation of young people must face the same problem, and today this problem is thrown to Wang Lei and his peers. In the face of such a classic script that will not change too much in the text and on the stage, Wang Lei believes that there is no need to emphasize too much pressure, "Pressure and responsibility have always existed, especially in the past few years, it is more obvious, actors around forty years old have become the backbone of the theater, to carry the banner, always talk about pressure can not help the creation, how to work hard, let the audience like us is the most important, our generation of actors also to cultivate our generation of audiences." ”
Wang Lei and his partners hope that on the basis of inheriting the essence of the performance of their predecessors, they can also perform the different understandings of this generation, "The Lu Mengshi I interpret is not a big entrepreneur who is in the limelight, but a professional manager with pyrotechnics, jianghu qi and civilian temperament, who will scratch his head and admit it when he encounters difficulties." "In the later stage of the rehearsal of this play, Wang Lei also took five days to participate in the WenDai meeting, in his opinion, although these five days are not in the rehearsal hall, but let him have a deeper understanding of the performance of this play," I heard General Secretary Xi jinping say in his speech, the vast number of literary and art workers must have the heart of respect to learn from their predecessors, but also have the spirit of competition to surpass their predecessors, to support young people to pick the beam and be the protagonist, literature and art to win with the image, feel that we can all be on the same page, just like the mobilization of our play before doing the performance. ”
After three months of rehearsal, everyone was nervous when they finally faced the audience, especially the first one was difficult to relax. However, after really taking the stage, they were affirmed and applauded by the audience, and even director Gu Wei thought that their performance was "better than expected." "In this way, the subsequent performances are more and more relaxed.
"The 15 performances in this round are to lay a foundation, and there will be new adjustments and changes in the performances of each year in the future, and our performance this time is more to let everyone see the hope of the future." Wang Lei said that although they have been affirmed, they also know that there are still many places that need to be polished, and they have long been prepared, "We may have to act this play until retirement, that is to say, we will play it for nearly twenty years, and we will spend a long time polishing it." ”
It's not just one move and one style on stage that needs to be passed on. Every day at half past seven, Wang Lei came to the theater at about five o'clock, basically the whole group was the first to go to the dressing room, put on makeup early and put on the costumes, a person silently played quietly, "I am still a young actor in Beijing, but I am relatively old in the crew, I have a lot of younger brothers and sisters in this crew, just like when we watched The Expedition Brother and Brother Wu Gang, you have to remind yourself not to be too relaxed, to be a good example." ”