In recent years, with the continuous heating up of realistic theme dramas, british model dramas with the growth experience or advanced deeds of british model characters as the performance content have once again become a hot topic, and it is a fine tradition of Chinese contemporary drama to transform the real heroic model characters into artistic images on the stage. The large-scale original drama "Teacher Guimei" created and rehearsed by Yunnan Provincial Drama Theatre is based on the example of Teacher Zhang Guimei sticking to Lijiang Huaping County for more than 40 years, putting all his body and mind into the main battlefield of poverty alleviation in mountainous areas, establishing a children's home, promoting the creation of the country's first all-free girls' high school, and letting more than 2,000 poor female students in mountainous areas realize their dreams. It tells the story of Teacher Zhang Guimei's dedication and dedication, long-term dragging the sick body to forget his work, in the race against time and the fight against the disease, with practical actions to fulfill the promise of "as long as there is still a breath, you must stand on the podium", holding up the hope and dream of poor mountain children "knowledge changes destiny". Since its premiere in June 2021, the play has received widespread attention, touched countless audiences, triggered heated discussions from all walks of life, and was put on the weibo hot search with the story of #Zhang Guimei, and as of December 30, the total number of topics reached 43.36 million.
What kind of person is Teacher Gui Mei? He is the secretary and principal of Lijiang Huaping Girls' High School; he is the president of Huaping Children's Welfare Institute (volunteer part-time); he is a model of the times, an outstanding Communist Party member, a "top ten model of poverty alleviation", and a winner of the "July 1st Medal"; he has also won the "National Ten Masters and Moral Pacesetters", "China's Top Ten Female Masters", "National Top Ten Figures of Spiritual Civilization", "National May Day Labor Medal", "National Top Ten Intellectual Women", "China's Top Ten Educational Figures of the Year", "National 100 Outstanding Mothers", "The Most Beautiful Rural Female Teachers in China" More than 40 honorary titles; in 2021, it was written into a brief history of the People's Republic of China. Gui Mei teacher won a number of provincial and national honors, such as falling Ying colorful, fluttering sprinkled into our lives, the streets and alleys can hear the discussion and touch of Gui Mei teacher, because a sentence "female high school students can not be full-time wives", triggering a hot discussion on the whole network, 720 million netizens clicked on the attention, Gui Mei teacher therefore has another title: net red level heroic model.
There is no doubt that "Teacher Gui Mei" belongs to the British model drama and is a difficult type of stage art work. Judging from the past situation, the creation of British model dramas is often limited by archetypals, from the overall structure to the storyline, from the actors' performances to the form of expression, the phenomenon of conceptualization, facialization and homogenization is more serious, and there are few works of high quality and wide dissemination. Experts and audiences are calling for the personalization, life, dramatization and work of heroic model characters, rather than a single publicity and education. How can we break through the mold and create a british model drama that is both beautiful and innovative? The creators of "Teacher Gui Mei" have made a valuable attempt.
Adhering to the principles and methods of realistic creation and pursuing the unity of the truth of life and the truth of art are important reasons for the success of "Teacher Gui mei". How do heroic characters go from life to stage, and how do they return to life from stage? It determines whether the image of the heroic model is real and credible, and it is deeply moving. In the process of creating "Teacher Guimei", the screenwriters, directors, cast members and others went deep into Huaping County in batches to collect style, dig deep into the little-known touching stories of Teacher Guimei, hold discussions, exchange and study with people from all walks of life in Huaping County, and live and work with Teacher Guimei for 3 months, using life details to portray the image of heroic models with rich life texture, which is an important inspiration for "Teacher Guimei".
In terms of artistic presentation, "Teacher Gui Mei" still has many remarkable points, the editors and creators in the process of various "dramatic form chemical reactions", found both a song team and a song team, both experimental drama and traditional dramatic elements of the performance of the means - all the means to shape the characters; both have a certain separation effect, let the audience "jump out" thinking, but can not "distance" too much, jump out to think too much. Strive to integrate the creative style of realism and the aesthetics of modern drama, and increase the rhythm of the times and the color of the times. The play uses the form of an ancient Greek choir to narrate the life node of Teacher Guimei. Under the narration of the "Song Team" (Propaganda Group), the "peeling the onion" drama structure is adopted, and the "past is repeated" and the time-traveling display is used to interpret and three-dimensionally shape the character of Teacher Guimei layer by layer, and reflect the spiritual world of Teacher Guimei in the character personality, and finally deduce the theme appeal of the play: True love has no boundaries. In the structure of "peeling the onion" and repeating the past, the "song team" (propaganda group) always thinks together with the audience, creates dramatic expectations and suspense, and leads the audience to the final dramatic climax. This structure integrates the ritual sense of ancient Greek drama, the "jumping in and jumping out" and "time and space travel" of avant-garde drama, so that the conflict of ideas becomes a the main line of drama, running through the life node and spiritual world of Teacher Guimei. Gui Mei's personality has a strong color of revolutionary romanticism, the play in the planning of creativity, the pursuit of stage "poetic" artistic charm, character language strives to be concise, bright, catchy, strong musicality and other characteristics, so that the performance of heroic characters of the drama, with the "poetry drama" aesthetic enjoyment.
The traditional theatrical form of praising heroic characters is integrated with the aesthetics of modern drama, increasing the sense of appreciation of the times, strengthening the audience's sense of "bringing in" the era, adapting real people and real events into dramas, seemingly easy but not, heroic models are admired because they have noble moral character and lofty ideals, in real life, the emergence of a heroic model can stimulate people's love for the country, nation, career and family, and the heroic model drama is the most important plate in the main theme of the work. The more excellent the heroic model drama, the more we should take the initiative to send the "one" in the drama back to the people with the image activated by art. Since its premiere in Kunming in June 2021, "Teacher Guimei" has been performed in Wuhan, Lijiang, Yuxi and other places, and in November, it launched a tour of "Elegant Art into The Campus", which made audiences across the country feel infected and inspired by Teacher Guimei in the theater. The confidence to send the drama to the whole country and to the university comes from the superb artistic standard. Facts have proved that any era needs heroic models to lead the trend of the times, and any audience will not reject the image of heroic models with the texture of life.