Our literary and artistic path is youth
The National Theatre of China has adhered to the roots of stage art in the tempering of the years
Stills from "Four Generations Together"
Stills from "The Wilderness"
Stills from "Gu Wenchang" (file photo)
80 years of glory, 20 years of ups and downs. Recently, the National Theatre of China ushered in the 80th anniversary of its founding and the 20th anniversary of its establishment. The starting point of the theater began on the bank of the Yanhe River in Yan'an, and the National Drama Theatre came from Yan'an, and the blood flowed with red blood. History has nurtured its rich historical heritage, and also given it a thick literary and artistic soul.
The unwavering red heart
The predecessor of the National Theatre of China, the Yan'an Youth Art Theatre, which can be traced back to the establishment of the Yan'an Youth Art Theater in 1941, was jointly led by the Central Youth Commission and the Central Cultural Commission, with Seck as the president, Wang Zhen and Wu Xue as the vice presidents, and Guo Moruo, Tian Han, Hong Shen, Ouyang Yuqian, Wan Litian, Xia Yan, Cao Yu and Yang Hansheng as honorary directors of the theater.
On May 23, 1942, at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art, Comrade Mao Zedong delivered his Speech at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art. The convening of the Yan'an Literary and Art Forum has promoted the development of literary and artistic undertakings in the base areas. Wu Xue, then vice president of the Yan'an Youth Art Theater, and Li Bozhao and Ouyang Shanzun, among the five initiators who later proposed the establishment of the Central Experimental Drama Theater, attended the meeting. On April 16, 1949, the China Youth Art Theater was officially established, and the first director was Liao Chengzhi.
The founding of New China marked the beginning of the evolution of Chinese drama in the contemporary historical stage.
On March 8, 1950, the first play "Patriot" after the establishment of the China Youth Art Theater was premiered. In the same period, on the stage of Qingyi, Chinese and foreign masterpieces such as "Grasping Zhuangding", "Under the Eaves of Shanghai", "Uncle Vanya", "Minister Chincha" and a number of contemporary plays that are close to the times, close to the people and reflect real life were brought to the audience.
On December 25, 2001, on the basis of the China Youth Art Theater and the Central Experimental Drama Theater, the National Drama Theatre of China was officially established. In the past 20 years, a large number of outstanding original dramas have sprouted in this soil, performed on this stage, and set a benchmark for theater stage art.
Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the theater has successively created and arranged a large number of outstanding works that reflect reality, praise the people, and lyricize the main theme of the era, such as "Beijing Fayuan Temple", "Gu Wenchang", "Three Bays, That Night", "Fireworks in the World", "People First", "Hero Era", etc., telling the story of China with temperature. "Gu Wenchang" has won national awards such as the Wenhua Award and the "Five One Project" Award.
The power of drama begins on the stage, but it will never stop at the theater, it has penetrated into the hearts of the audience with a strong artistic charm since its birth, stirring up surging sparks and leading people into the temple of artistic thought.
A Drama Becomes a "Party Lesson of Walking hearts"
"See also the smoke of cooking, and see the flocks of flying geese, you sow a spring breeze all the way, only for the people to dream, who said that the flow of water is unintentional, the years have no trace, who said that the flowers are merciless, the past is like smoke, listen to the words of the mountains, the call of the sea, true emotions move the heavens and the earth, true love in the world." At the end of the drama "Gu Wenchang", a singing section left a gentle aftersound, stirring on and off the stage, echoing in the hearts of the audience and actors.
In the face of the tide of history, the individual is small, so small that it can even be ignored, but the Communist Party members represented by Gu Wenchang have built an indestructible against the wind and waves with small individuals.
This play allows the actor to give up all the techniques of sound and form, and all he can do is to present it realistically. Only by making small details real can the audience see the heroic image of the county party secretary who is affectionate and ordinary and noble.
In fact, the crew began to worry about playing "Gu Wenchang" into the kind of heroic model character that had been modeled in the past, but after watching the reportage "Gu Wenchang", they felt that this person had great wisdom. In order to restore a real and three-dimensional image of Gu Wenchang, the main creators of the crew have gone to Dongshan twice to experience life, and the script has been drafted 24 times. Xin Baiqing, played by Gu Wenchang, sighed: "In fact, every play needs us to interpret with emotion. Thanks to "Gu Wenchang", he has always been a wake-up call to me. The so-called do not forget the original heart, as an actor, is to always maintain the purest and most simple authenticity in the heart. ”
After the performance of this drama, it can be said that a ticket is difficult to find, and it is considered to be the "most heartfelt party lesson"...
Some people say that a great nation must have a great spirit, and the great spirit is embodied in one vivid hero after another.
One night 94 years ago, a group of young people held a meeting at a grocery store in Yongxin, Jiangxi Province, called Sanwan, to study the next step. At the time of the meeting, the oldest was Mao Zedong, 34 years old.
This meeting is the three bays adaptation. On this evening, Mao Zedong creatively put forward a complete set of brand-new strategies for governing the army, such as "branches are built on the company" and "equality between officers and soldiers," which became the earliest successful exploration and practice of the CPC in building a new type of people's army.
Since then, a team, overnight, miraculously "scattered sand gathered into Watergate"! Since then, a people's army that has never existed in five thousand years has appeared in a groundbreaking way!
The drama "Three Bays, That Night" produced by the National Drama Theatre is based on this. As soon as the play was performed, it deeply shocked every audience. Returning to this history, let's look at the ages of several protagonists at that time: Mao Zedong was 34 years old, Yu Shandu was 28 years old, Su Xianjun was 21 years old, Luo Ronghuan was 25 years old... It's a bunch of young people!
We can understand it this way: it was a group of young people who were "starting a business" and had a meeting one night to study how to go in the future. And it was this night's meeting that built the branch on the company and established the soldiers' committee, which injected the soul of our troops.
In order to write and perform this play well, the main creative staff first let themselves drill into that period of history, spliced the salvaged pieces one by one, tried their best to restore, and then presented it to the audience in the form of drama. Screenwriter Wang Baoshe told everyone, "When writing this play, I was looking for me to be a language program director at the Spring Festival Gala, and I politely refused. I hid in the mountains of Phoenix Ridge to write the script, for two months, accompanied only by the sound of the wind whistling outside. I felt like I was burning, as if I had traveled back in time. "The sound of the wind is like it blew from more than 90 years ago, and as the wind blows, we seem to see the characters in the play standing up from the paper one by one, gradually full and rich, with life and temperature."
The 24th Cao Yu Screenplay Awards commented: "The play reproduces the sanwan adaptation, an important event in the history of the Communist Party of China, in the form of a highly condensed drama, and has the power to penetrate history and the present. ”
Interpret the human world full of fireworks
The stage of the new era can not only interpret Huang Zhong Da lu, but also sing the true feelings of the world in the life of the city.
"Only when we have the hearts of the people in our hearts can we shoulder the burdens of the people" and "if the people have a difficult scripture in their homes, the cadres must be the scripture cabinet." This is a classic line in "Human Fireworks" produced by the National Drama Theatre.
The drama tells the bittersweet and bittersweet story of Su Xiaoyu, a grassroots party member cadre in the new era, who presided over the shed reform work. In the city and ordinary life, Su Xiaoyu's growth runs through the thinking of social hot spots such as intergenerational communication, support for parents, and young people's entrepreneurship, and depicts the people's yearning and pursuit of a better life.
Using realistic themes and showing the style of the new era through grass-roots shed reform is a challenge for the crew. So, they walked into the Wangtan community in Dongcheng District, Beijing to collect wind. In the hot and hot day, with the fiery love, the field investigation shed reform status quo, everyone began to have a foundation and dependence in their hearts.
Everyone can find the prototype of the character in the play, whether it is a high-rise building or a burrow, the core is the emotional connection between people. So, there is such a scene in the play: under the hazy moonlight, su Xiaoyu, a grassroots cadre, pedals his bicycle hard, shuttles through the urban village, and together with the neighbors, depicts the human world full of fireworks...
"I went to the United States to see that ordinary Americans, especially the elderly, are not as happy as we are. I paid attention to some old people in the United States, bought a McDonald's, and then sat on a park bench, waited, looked at the watch from time to time, and when the time came, ate the hamburger, and then the night was a long lonely night. Our aunts are dressed in flowers and dancing, I think this is so beautiful, which shows that they love life, if life does not have this wealth, where do they come from this confidence. Every time I pass by the park, I especially appreciate this ostentatious sense of happiness. That kind of praise for happiness is released at once, and I think it should be sung. "Director Lou Yiming was quite touched by this." Therefore, since this play is called "Human Fireworks", I will focus on this breath of life. In fact, we will gradually find that 'human fireworks' is a very luxurious, because we cry and squander, and laughter is also profligate. For example, I want to share crying and laughing with my parents now, but it is no longer possible because they are gone. Then you will understand that all the crying and laughing, there is no right or wrong, because that is life. ”
"The brightest star in the night sky, illuminating us forward." The joys and sorrows of each family touch the hearts of the audience. The happiness and bitterness of the people's daily life were presented one by one on the stage, and in the fireworks full of life, the whole rushed to a happy life.
Explore innovative expressions of artistic fusion
"Record history on airwaves and witness the birth of a nation!" On October 1, 2021, the original drama "Live Broadcast of the Founding Ceremony" was successfully premiered at the National Centre for the Performing Arts. The play brings to the stage for the first time the great historical moment of the founding of New China in 1949 and the behind-the-scenes radio story broadcast live, paying tribute to every ordinary and great person who contributed to the founding of New China.
One of the highlights of this drama is the use of advanced installation technology and digital technology, and the integration of espionage, love and other elements into the main theme theme, making the drama more philosophical, ornamental and artistic.
The play uses new technological means to lead the new direction of stage "art + technology" integration. Instant photography makes it possible for time and space to overlap on the stage, and the real-time shooting team presents precious historical pictures in front of the audience through lens shooting and real-time screen projection. Through light and shadow and real-time photography technology, the pictures of the two time and space overlap together, between the virtual and the real, so that the audience can also follow the history and reality back and forth. Such a new stage presentation and freehand expression made the audience deeply shocked.
Cross-border has become a trend and a trend. The TV show "China in the Story", directed by Tian Qinxin, president of the National Drama Theatre, is a cross-border fusion work. Through the immersive presentation of "drama + film and television", it broadens the field of dramatic expression and contributes new forms of television programs with scientific and technological means.
"I want to know how they forge their character, where their inexhaustible spiritual motivation comes from." The grassland Erji 'Du Guima,' the greatest doctor, Zhong Nanshan, who is the country and the people, Nan Rendong, the 'father of the Heavenly Eye' of China, Huang Wenxiu, the first secretary of the village, and the 'post-90s' medical team to aid Hubei... Their strength of personality, their undisputed dedication to their mission, the influence of their families and growth paths, and their faith in the party and their great love for the country and the people. In our creation, we insist on starting from the spirit of the characters and starting from real life, which has touched many audiences and made people truly feel the personality strength of the heroic model characters. Tian Qinxin said.
In terms of program form, the program team took the lead in embedding stage plays in cultural talk programs and presenting Chinese stories in a fusion way. "The audience's recognition of the program and the recognition of the protagonist of the program are not only due to emotional and ideological resonance, but also related to the bold and innovative form of expression of the program." Only when the story is told brilliantly and with new ideas, the audience is willing to listen to it and watch it. ”
On the stage of "China in the Story", 60% of the actors' performances are filmed, and when the characters need emotional expression, they use theatrical performance methods to enhance the rendering, so that the audience can feel the spiritual strength of the national backbone.
Whether it is 80 years of glory or 20 years of ups and downs, our theater workers have always shared the fate with the characters on the stage, rejoiced with the earth, shared true feelings with the people, and walked in the high heavens and thick soil with healthy and powerful steps. As Liu Peiqi, the "old drama bone" of the National Drama Theatre, said: "You are the sun, we are also the sun, you are the fiery red sunrise, we are the brilliant sunset, equally brilliant." Although we are more than half a hundred years old and have silver hair fluttering, the fallen leaves can still fertilize the soil, and the sunset is intended to light up the stars, as long as the ambition is not old, there is endless potential. (Mudor)
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