Last year's high-rated TV series "The Age of Awakening" will be brought to the stage by the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, which is scheduled to premiere in Shanghai on July 1 this year. As soon as the news that "The Age of Awakening" was to be put on the stage was reported, it triggered the expectations of the audience, and in the questionnaire survey of "The Repertoire You Most Look Forward to Seeing on the Stage in 2022", "The Age of Awakening" ranked first with 35% of the votes. At present, the show has begun to create and rehearse work.
Pictured: The stage play "The Age of Awakening" has begun the creation and rehearsal work
Last year, the TV series "The Age of Awakening" turned out to be a reality, with impassioned line dialogue, realistic and positive historical reproduction, three-dimensional and full character portrayal, romantic and meticulous camera language, layered plot unfolding, and the spiritual core of the swinging intestines... All make it a well-deserved phenomenon-level drama. At the 27th Shanghai TV Festival Magnolia Awards, the drama won three awards: Best Director, Original Screenwriter and Best Actor. On the Internet, Douban scored more than 390,000 netizens, with a rating of 9.3, becoming the top 1 in the 2021 Chinese drama rating and ranking among the top ten high-scoring Chinese dramas. In this play, the young people read the romance of those revolutionary ancestors who were full of blood and struggled all their lives--it is romantic to turn the tide, and it is romantic to stick to faith. This romance is moving and awakening.
Pictured: The TV series "The Age of Awakening" has a Douban score of 9.3
With such a good ratings base, the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center is determined to bring this drama to the stage. At present, the "Age of Awakening" script workshop has been launched. Screenwriter Yu Rongjun, director He Nian and actors participated together to create, polish and explore the presentation and interpretation of stage plays. A few days ago, the play also invited experts to conduct a reading session of the fragment script. After listening, experts said that they saw the consistent standard of the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, and at the same time, they also put forward valuable suggestions for the stage play "The Age of Awakening" and expressed their ardent expectations.
It is understood that the stage play "The Age of Awakening" will focus on the grand background of the period from the advent of "Youth Magazine" in 1915 to the time when "New Youth" became a publication of the organs of the Communist Party of China in 1921, and will show the magnificent historical picture of China's modern history from the New Culture Movement, the May Fourth Movement, and the founding of the Communist Party of China. Burn ideals like song years.
Photo: The "Age of Awakening" script workshop has been launched
"From the end of December last year to now, the workshop has lasted for three or four weeks, and we want to spend more time with the main creators and polish the script more solidly, after all, the audience has a lot of expectations for 'The Age of Awakening'." Yu Rongjun said, "The drama version of "The Age of Awakening" will focus on portraying Li Dazhao and Chen Duxiu, two people, from their encounters with their respective experiences, to the final meeting of them to build the party, the whole process of ideological changes, we want to present to the audience on the stage. ”
Director He Nian said: "We plan to divide the story into four spaces. When we watched some famous scenes in the TV series version of "The Age of Awakening", such as those speeches on the Peking University pulpit, we were deeply moved. We will condense this 'impressment' into enthusiasm and finally impress the audience with our works. I hope that in the theater, all the young audience can feel that there is a fire in his heart. ”