Poster of the dialect drama "Thunderstorm"
It may not be unusual for a movie or TV series to be hot before acting, but there are few such treatments in Hua Wen's memory. Nowadays, after the news that Baoshan Shanghai Opera Troupe is going to launch the first dialect drama "Thunderstorm", it has quickly gained popular clicks on ticketing websites such as Damai Network.
"I really didn't expect that the play had not yet been rehearsed, and the tickets had been sold for 40%." Yesterday, Hua Wen, the lead actor of the play and the head of the Baoshan Shanghai Opera Troupe, encouraged the actors who were trying to rehearse, "This time the tickets are not old households (old drama fans), in the face of new audiences, we are also considered to be debuting, absolutely can not drop the chain." ”
The influx of invitations carried the audience's expectations for this version of "Thunderstorm". Hua Wen said: "Thanks to the enthusiasm of Shanghainese works, these days, the Oriental Art Center and the Majestic Theater have come to contact and negotiate, hoping that after the first round of performances, we can perform several performances in the theater, which also gives me confidence and encouragement, and we must do a good job in this play." ”
Stills from "Thunderstorm"
How to make everyone in the "thunderstorm" come alive is the test faced by director Wu Wencong. "Although speaking Shanghainese is the strength of Shanghai opera actors, they who have been immersed in opera performance for many years still need to learn from scratch if they want to get rid of the opera style and perform a drama." Wu Wencong said, "Actors who sing opera, even if they speak, are in the form of white reading. For example, Lu Shuping has a line - it is fate, it is an unfair fate that directs me to come. The word 'fate', Shanghai opera actors will generally drag the opera to pronounce the long tone, but this time with a normal tone, short and powerful, they have been practicing for a long time or can not be law. For another example, the 'four' characters of the four phoenixes are pronounced first in Shanghai opera, but we use the third sound in our daily speech, which is also being discussed. ”
The whole creative process is a learning and grinding for the actors. "Don't add random actions, but if there is action, it is necessary to express the emotional level of the characters, and the tone and rhythm of the speech are also ulterior motives." In order to let the actors understand the role more deeply, Wu Wencong and the actors read the original book of "Thunderstorm" seven or eight times, "The opera actors show the characters, the general lines are sung, do not let them sing, use words to say, familiar words are strange." (Xinmin Evening News reporter Zhu Yuan)