Jimu news reporter Zhang Cong
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The "Zhou Mansion", which is not obvious in Chinese style, creates a "cold" texture with its cool and huge marble walls;
The small "wooden box" gives a low and oppressive "Lu family", lighting, stage movement and a "window" composed of narrow openings, silently watching the group of people who are wrapped more and more tightly by the tragic atmosphere;
The white and red lights in the sky formed an extremely shocking ending, the "power wire" electrocuted Zhou Chong and Si Feng, and a gunshot announced the end of Zhou Ping's life...
The lights dimmed, and three hours passed, and "Thunderstorm" came to an end.
On the afternoon of October 16, Yanghua Drama was staged at the Qintai Grand Theatre last year for the 110th anniversary of Cao Yu's birth, which was the opening play of the fifth "Qintai Arts Festival", and jimu news reporters watched the play on the spot and found that the innovation of French director Eric La Casscade and the commendable acting skills of the old drama bones complemented each other, jointly forging the amazement of this version of "Thunderstorm".
However, the problems that once plagued the drama actor Yang Lixin were not eliminated because this version of "Thunderstorm" was amazing enough - the statistics of the Jimu News reporter found that on October 16, the performance site of "Thunderstorm" had no less than 10 laughs in the audience, including even the climactic passage of the identity of Zhou Ping and Sifeng brothers and sisters.
Modern adaptations complement group portraits
But "laughter" also made some viewers feel like needles
Created in 1933 and premiered in 1934, more than 80 years of "life" has given Thunderstorm many versions. Compared with the "predecessors", the Yanghua version of "Thunderstorm" has many "subversions", such as modern choreography, white marble as the main color of the Zhou Mansion is cold and empty, in addition to Lu Shuping's once "favorite" two pieces of wood furniture, there is only a long table and two sofas on the huge stage;
The soundtrack is also subversive, and the director even arranged for Zhou Puyuan to watch a movie on a thunderstorm night in the fourth act of the story, and the huge background wall is playing the best foreign language film "Roma" at the 91st Academy Awards, which is quite metaphorically, the film filmed in 2018 also tells the story of a maid.
In addition to the original classic passage of "Thunderstorm", the Yanghua version also has some changes and additions, a scene in which Lu Dahai, who participated in the strike, broke into the Zhou Mansion, and the actors appeared in the audience and performed passionately; Zhou Ping touched the Lu family late at night and met with the four phoenixes, and there was more of a "passion play" that made the audience blush and beat...
Classic rearrangement, Yanghua version of "Thunderstorm" performed well, He Saifei (as Lu Shuping), Kong Wei (as Fanyi), Lu Xingchen (as Si Feng) these three actresses performed well, but also deeply interpreted the tragic background of the story and the sad and lamentable role. But even so, "laughter" surrounds "Thunderstorm."
Jimu News reporters tried to count the number of laughs in the audience, but eventually gave up because of "more frequent". Even so, "no less than ten times" is certain.
What is the audience laughing at in such a great tragedy? Jimu News reporter found that laughter basically revolves around the complex "father-son" and "brother-sister" relationship in the plot of "Thunderstorm", in addition, the collision of the roles of Zhou Chong, Lu Dahai and Lu Gui has also triggered a lot of laughter.
If the laughter caused by the latter is "understandable" based on the personality color of different characters, then some lines representing the relationship between "father and son" and "brother and sister", especially the laughter caused by the truth at the end, have made many viewers who have read "Thunderstorm" feel like needles.
Netizen "Europa Garden" expressed puzzlement on Weibo, "The audience — in terms of the mentality of listening to gossip in a restaurant not on stage but in a restaurant — laughed." Do you think it's a happy twist? Is it good to see the occasion? It's speechless. ”
From "confused" to "understanding" to "accepting"
Behind the "laughter" is the classic interpretation of the times
In fact, the "laughter" of the audience in the performance of "Thunderstorm" triggered a cultural debate 7 years ago. In July 2014, because young audiences laughed many times in the "public welfare field" in Beijing in "Thunderstorm" starring him, the famous drama actor Yang Lixin sent five weibo posts in a row to express anger. Even after five years, I didn't forget to mention that it was the only time in my acting career that I didn't bow to the audience at the end of the curtain.
Yang Lixin also listed several "laughing points" in detail, such as "Si Feng has been pregnant with the young master's child for three months", Zhou Chong ran to Si Feng's home to express his admiration, Zhou Puyuan clearly pointed out to Zhou Ping that "don't think that you are the same mother as Si Feng and you have forgotten the nature of humanity" and so on, etc. Jimu News reporter found that these "laugh points" recorded by him were also the places where the audience "laughed out loud" when watching the Yanghua version on the 16th.
These laughs, in fact, have also confused the actors on the stage.
On the morning of the 17th, when interviewed by the Jimu News reporter, Xu Deliang, the actor of Lu Gui in the Yanghua version of "Thunderstorm", revealed that last December, this version of "Thunderstorm" premiered in Haikou for the first time, and He Saifei, who had been active on the stage for nearly 40 years, was "confused" when he heard the laughter of the audience at the end, "This play we lined up for more than three months, and there were more than 20 days in Haikou, He Saifei every time he went back to the stage, tears could come down in two minutes, including Kong Wei, she said that Liu Kaiwei (played) at the end of the curtain Zhou Ping) If she didn't give her a hug, she would really be 'crazy' - so such a big tragedy, why would the audience laugh? ”
Before starring in the drama, Xu Deliang was more well known as a cross-talk actor, and he once looked forward to himself being able to amuse the audience the most, but the "laughter" caused by "Thunderstorm" also made him think about it after graduating from the Chinese Department of Peking University. He said that he and Yang Lixin also talked about this matter, and also found a lot of theater troupes and many versions of "Thunderstorm" to see, "I specifically observed this, it can be said that I have seen all the "Thunderstorm" on the market, I found that any troupe, any kind of drama "Thunderstorm", when the final character relationship is revealed, contemporary audiences seem to laugh. ”
This kind of "laughter" is definitely out of the spirit of Cao Yu's original work, but Xu Deliang believes that behind the "laughter" is the imprint of the times, "the audience in the 1930s watched "Thunderstorm", the perspective must have been from human nature, to the fifties and sixties, Xuanyi was once portrayed as a landlord's wife, Lu Dahai was designed as a working class with an accent, after decades, the relationship between mother and son, brothers and sisters in "Thunderstorm" is chaotic, in the eyes of young people who see more similar things, it may be a 'dog blood drama'. ”
He mentioned that in fact, it is not possible to expect all the audiences who enter the theater to have read the original book of "Thunderstorm", "Ordinary people are not familiar with the classics, which is an objective phenomenon." Even if you are a student of the Chinese Department, can you guarantee that they have read the four masterpieces? ”
From confusion to understanding to acceptance, this is the heart path that the actors of "Thunderstorm" have experienced. Xu Deliang said that what he understands now is that this kind of "laughter" just shows that the audience has been "brought into the play" by the actor, "as long as it is not the actor who deliberately wants to make the audience happy, I think there is no problem." ”
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