Qianjiang Evening News Hourly News reporter Chen Yuhao
Based on the stage play "Letter to an Unborn Child" by the famous Italian journalist and writer Oriana Farage of the same name, directed by director Zhou Ke, Zhu Yushuang as the stage and lighting designer, and Huang Fangling, Shen Jiani and Mai Duo, three actresses co-starring, will be listed in the Hangzhou Canal Grand Theater And Small Theater on January 21-22, 2022.
The play tells the story of a pregnant woman and the fetus in her womb, and it is also a story about the exploration of life, which Farage wrote to all those who like to think about their relationship with another life. Since its premiere in Shanghai, the reputation of the stage play "Letter to an Unborn Child" has continued to ferment, and this small theater stage play that Zheng Yunlong, Zhu Yawen and Xiao Dingchen are watching has explored a new understanding of life.
Farage, the "toughest" warwoman of the 20th century
For the first time, the soft work was put on the stage of drama
The famous Italian journalist and writer Oriana Farage is known as "the world's first female journalist", "the queen of interviews", and one of the most "tough" women of the 20th century. In 1950, he served as a foreign correspondent for the Corriere della Sera, and in 1967 he became a war correspondent for the Weekly Magazine "European", covering the Vietnam War, the Indo-Pakistani War, the Middle East War and the South African Unrest, and had fierce verbal confrontations with more than 60 international dignitaries around the world, including Kissinger, Deng Xiaoping (the interview record was included in the "Deng Xiaoping Anthology"), Mrs. Meier, Khomeini, Arafat, Sharon, Gaddafi, etc., which attracted the attention of the whole world. His journalistic career has been hailed as "a brilliant example of the art of the interview", and he has twice won the St. Vincent's Journalism Award. Vincent Prize), a Bancarella Prize for Bestselling Authors.
Farage also has other works such as "Interview with The Man", "Man", "Insha Allah" and so on. The novel Letter to an Unborn Child is Farage's softest work, a mixture of social history, sincere confession, and fiction. First published in 1975, the novel was a huge success in Europe, selling well for over 40 years, selling more than 1.5 million copies in Italian alone, and many readers were completely fascinated when they first read the book. As soon as the Chinese edition of the novel was published, it attracted the attention of a large number of Chinese readers, especially female readers.
The stage play "Letter to an Unborn Child", directed by special director Zhou Ke, will be presented in a poetic way in a small theater of "small and beautiful".
Zhou Ke once said in an interview, "After reading the novel "Letter to an Unborn Child", I feel that the novel has told readers all the problems that will be encountered in the 'life topic' through the mouth of the mother: how to face the nothingness in life, how to face love, how to face life, how to face gender, how to face freedom, how to face fairness, how to face the meaning of life. ”
"The stage play 'Letter to an Unborn Child' is a poem, a poem written for women, for life, full of philosophical significance. As the last sentence of our play, this is one of my favorite sentences - it exists, life always exists. Our individuals will die, but life itself will not die. ”
"All human growth, experience, and wisdom will continue to exist in the universe with the continuation of life. I expect the play to be presented on stage with an absurd sense of joy and poetic beauty. ”
Three powerful actresses play multiple roles
Explore the endless possibilities of the little theater
The stage play "Letter to an Unborn Child" is co-starred by three charismatic actresses Huang Fangling, Shen Jiani and Mai Duo (in no particular order), all of whom play the pregnant woman in the play, but each has to play multiple roles such as male doctor, female doctor, male boss, mother, father, grandmother, child and so on, which is a big challenge for them.
Huang Fangling, an actress at Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, has many years of stage experience, and has starred in dramas such as "Confused Drama Class", "God of Killing", "Haida Goble", "4:48 Mental Breakdown", "Dog Charm Sylvia", "Hudak" and other works, and she is also committed to trying to create cross-border dramas in many fields such as art museums.
Huang Fangling enjoyed the rehearsal process very much: "Drama is the 'bigger' thing, we shared our secrets during the rehearsal process, the rehearsal field unfolded from small memories, we shared with each other those stories about family from childhood to the present, those separations, those reunions, and those moments that made us sad; those joys, the feelings of joy so that the whole world became an illusion; and the moments when we once chose to escape, those brave stories... Each of us has become a 'bigger' person in some sense, with emotions that can 'dock' with the audience. I think that future audiences will all have the same emotions, they come with stories, on the spot, maybe we will perceive each other. ”
Actress Shen Jiani has starred in TV series "Wolf Hunter", "The Rise of the Great Qin Empire", "No War in Peiping", "If Life Deceives You", "Love in the Vast Land", "Plain Life", "Quick Sleep", "The Third Warmth", drama "Long Hate Song", "The Day of Living with a Flight Attendant" and other works.
When receiving the performance invitation of "Letter to an Unborn Child", Shen Jiani was instantly attracted by the theme of this play: "One day, I saw the news that the crew of "Letter to an Unborn Child" was about to prepare in the circle of friends. I was moved. The arrival of a child is an active choice or a passive arrangement. The discussion of life aroused my curiosity. ”
"I asked my six-year-old daughter: When you came into this world, do you think it was your own decision or your parents' decision? She said: I decided it myself. I asked: Why did you come? She replied: I want to see the world... The author of the novel, Oriana Farage, is a legendary woman, and I would love to experience her 'her' thinking and choices. I love our director and my two partners, and enjoy the daily walk home with the full energy I carry behind the rehearsal floor, and the twenty-minute journey is the best gift of the day. ”
Mai Duo, a young actor at Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, has just won the Most Promising Newcomer Award at the 24th Zuolin Drama Arts Awards, and although he is young, he has already made a name for himself in many works such as drama "The Second Sex", "Shang Martingale", "Dream of the Red Chamber", "Galileo", "Erektra", "Henry V", "Xiucai and the Executioner", "1977", "Confused Drama Class", and the musical "The Book of beacons".
Participating in the play made her think more about the conception of life: "Pregnant with life is a great thing in itself. I don't think so, and it's not just from a woman's point of view. It's amazing how a tiny cell can grow into what we are now through the fertility of a woman! About this play, two friends of the opposite sex asked me a very interesting question: "Letter to an unborn child" is not a scene where three actresses cry and cry in turn? ’
"At first, I was a little confused, but then it gradually became clear. The child is indeed the softest part of a woman's life, but it also makes the woman strong, as if she has armor. We don't try to tell everyone by crying how hard it is to conceive life, but we want to show a person, a woman's journey of life. Find commonalities in the feelings between people, or reconcile with yourself, your parents, others, and the 'unborn child'. ”
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